The list of places in wayanad can be seen at :
http://abhisheksahai.pbwiki.com/Wayanad
How did it all start for me :
Day 1)
A long week end was approaching and I didn’t know what to do , and just at the right time a mail comes in from Jitu , biking to Wayanad anyone interested .
I knew I was going in for it and instantly replied to the mail . apart from us 4 more people agreed to come , so totally we were 6 people .
Not much of planning was done , we all agreed to meet at shoppers stop as early as 6 PM Thursday evening itself at shoppers stop and that was the beginning of our journey .
Now wayanad is around 250Kms from Bangalore and we pass Mysore in between so we had a good opportunity of seeing Mysore too.
Myasore was our first stop as we thought of having a night stay over there apart from sight seeing and Maysore palace visit we had a lot of fun where JITU promised us something about shots too (now now I can’t explain too much about that , you will have to meet this person for details ) .
Day2)
Next day we got up as early as 6 in the morning , mind you I m Mr Lazy bones so it was awful too me , but then it was not so bad as I could have some good snaps of sunrise . Our journey starts , the road was good and scenic too but it took us another two hours or so to reach Bandipur National park .
Bandipur National park is an awesome place , jungle and u can easily spot some birds and animals like eleplants , monkeys and Bysons and if u very unlucky tigers too .The problem is if all the people in a group are intrested in prhotography , no one wants to go out of the jungle , each one of us was bz with his camera and one or two who were no
t intrested in taking pictures thought they were models.And luckily we spotted some flowing water and that was it , a lot of time was wasted before some one reminded us that it was prohibited to go in water and you can be fined for it . Unwillingly we left the place and started driving , it took us an hour or less to reach wayanad from there.
Edakkal Caves :
This was the first place which we visited in Wayanad , a jeep took us to the beginning of
the caves , I was not very impressed by the caves as I had been to these kind of places earlier but then I kept on moving up and up and all of a sudden after the last cave I saw a path going upstairs , I started climbing it , there was a bunch of people coming down , one of them looked at me and said "hope you don’t have any girls in your group as the trek above is a bit tough" . I was pleased to hear this :) , I went down called up the guys and asked if u all want to come to the top nut only Jitu and Vineet agreed for it .It was not an easy climb at all , the pictures will tell u the story , some places were really steep as steep as 70 a
or 80 degrees , with only a few rocks to hold on and it was a bit high too , not very high. But this climb really changed my opinion, Edakkal caves is a must visit and a must climb thing .Meenmutty Falls
If Edakkal caves was good this was even better , first thing was we were a bit tired and then me saw a group coming up to the place where we were to begin from, it looked like a simple walk through a jungle and this was the reason why I was arguing with the guide "Why to give to 3
hundred , when we can do it without you " the other one said "can we go on our own " , but no was the answer . And later on we really felt lucky taking the guide as it was not just a walk through the jungle , jungle was a part of it , and it was really steep down a hill, moreover there were some points where he alarmed us to be careful as it was really scary and dangerous over there , the other thing was that it was really steep and some ppl were on second trek of the day ."इसकी वजेह से दिन मैं दो बार ट्रेक हो गई , मुझे साले की बातों मैं आना ही नही था " - This was Jitu cribbing and as we went down this went on increasing .
Ohh among so many things I forgot to tell you about SURYA our star yaar kalakar . He was an amazing photographer (this is what I thought until I saw his
snaps later on :) ) and he was stuck on some soot or the other for taking pics or resting , we had to make sure he was in the middle because if he was left behind he was gone , we could waste a life time waiting for him to reach us .Anyways , all the efforts were worth the site and really what an amazing site was the waterfall and the best part was that we could take bath in water , and we had a baby elephant with us who was behaving like a fish and never wanted to come out of water .
And this was the end of day 2 for us , took a great home stay खाना खाया और बत्ती बुझा दी ।
Day3)
Chembra peka :
2100 mts in height and a great climb , this was the whole thing which we did on day three . It was a great climb and after so much of work on the previous day it was an awesome experience reaching the top of the peak , lucky enough it was a cloudy day and it started raining while we
were climbing down .Important Note :
Our Star SURYA got left behind and was never able to catch us , I am not saying that we didn’t wait for him , we waited a lot only to see him appearing
from a peak which we had covered at least an hour or so , so we decided to move along and wait for him at the peak . But this guy is great , we met him a long way while we were coming down , I wanted to take him from there itself but someone ( I guess it was Ajay who told him that if he doesn’t reach the top it would be worthless coming all the way --- crap crap crap ) and he listened to Ajay , went up and came down at LAAASSSSTTTT. Chalo he came down at least .
That night itself we decided of coming back , again we came to Mysore , say a beautifully lit Mysore palace and had dinner . On Mysore highway boom goes the tyre , and we see Ajay's tire has punctured , night 12 and nothing in vicinity , lucky only 3Kms distance was a puncture repair shop and we got help from him , it was around 3 in the morning that we reached Bangalore only to see Traffic police waiting for us , they checked all the documents and left us all taking Rs100. Pretty cheap right ;).
So the parts over , wait for my next post for some more treks and trips .
