I am a traveller , a photographer and a reader all in one .
All this started one fine day in college when we didnt have any work and was itching to go out and do something , I used to be in Pune then and I stayed with amol and Asish , it was 6th semester of MCA so the placements had already taken place . Most of the people from our college were out of town or were resting in thier homes, but we wanted to enjoy our final lap in MCA, because we knew that this time will never come back.
Amol was reading Pune Times and I was busy with a novel of mine , all of a sudden he asks me
"Trekking pe chalega kya?" , I was like "kya trekkein bhai , kaha jana hai" , he hands me the news paper and I see a small advertisement by trekdi group , who were going to some fort in the hills and had asked intrested people to call them up . I casually said yes and noted the number on my cell phone . It was already evening and both of us were feeling hungry so we went out for vada pav and sitting on a tapri we were doing some chit chat , when all of a sudden I suggested him of taking Rohini too along with us to the trek , he says ok and we call her up , as usual she thinks we are kidding and says yes I am ready .
The intresting thing was that the trek is the very next morning we are not even sure of going , we have not even called up the group leave alone the bag packing and the stuff and still we went in for the trek .
I called up one of the members of the group , I guess she was Himangi and she says yes you all can sure jaoin us from shivaji station in Pune , they were going to leave at around 6 in the morning I said yes we will and put down the phone .
The journey starts 5 in the morning , I was the laziest person in the whole class but somehow I managed to get up and even woke up Amol , kept some clothes in the bag and left for Rohini's house , amazing she was also ready and standing outside waiting for us , without wasting any time we went to Shivaginagar bus stand to find an enthusiastic bunch of ppl waiting for us . We had a basic introduction of each other and we were in a bus going to .... unfortunately it was so long ago (somewhere in 2005 april ) that I dont even remember the place we went to and I didnt have a camera to capture the pics .
But all I remember was that it was a two days trip where we covered two mountains .
In the first one Rnini was at the end and I was accompaning her all the way , she was feeling very tired (maybe she should have done some dieting before coming) and was on the verge of stopping, all the while I had to motivate her for some more , but unfortunately comes up a hurdle as if the trek was easier without it , but this one was a bit tought and was a bit dangerous too , one wrong foot and you were gone and it was hight too , and I hear Rohini saying you all go ahead I will stay here (if I could record her voice or could even have taken a snap it would have been great , cause words fail me ). My motivation was doing no good for her , luckily we had Ashwin with us , one of the guys from treking group , and he helped her in climbing up . But that was only the beginning of the battle , but after that I didnt hear Rohini cribbing or crying although she was slow in climbing , finally we reached up the mountain by 6 in the evening .
The group had already seen a pace where we would be spending our night . On top of the hill was an old fort with no one staying in it , we were going to stay there . We cooked our food and used candles for lightining as there was no electricity . and then when people were going to sleep I crept out and was gazing at the stars , it was an amazing site and I can never forget that .
Day 2:
Get up early in the morning and go in for the next peak , it was going down this one and then climbing on to the next , this time I wanted to enjoy the climp and moreover by now Rohini was confident so I started chatting with some new people as this was a good opportunity to know and meet someone new , this was not as high as the first one but was much more difficult even some of the experienced people were afaraid when the rocks became a hordle to reach the top but we finally reached up and had some fun there.
This was my first trekking experince and I enjoyed it so much that after thatI became a frequent traveller . Moreover this habit of mine lead me to photography too .
You can have look at my flickr profile :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23078963@N08/.
although I dont rememer all thetreks I have done I thought of listing all the places I have been to during this year .
Places travelled in 2009 consist of :
1) Skandgiri :
2) Sagar : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/SagarTrip#
3) Kunoor beach : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/KanoorKerala#
4) Aero India show : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/AeroIndia2009#
5) Tadiandanimol :http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Tadiyandamol#
6) Wayanad : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Wayanad#
All this started one fine day in college when we didnt have any work and was itching to go out and do something , I used to be in Pune then and I stayed with amol and Asish , it was 6th semester of MCA so the placements had already taken place . Most of the people from our college were out of town or were resting in thier homes, but we wanted to enjoy our final lap in MCA, because we knew that this time will never come back.
Amol was reading Pune Times and I was busy with a novel of mine , all of a sudden he asks me
"Trekking pe chalega kya?" , I was like "kya trekkein bhai , kaha jana hai" , he hands me the news paper and I see a small advertisement by trekdi group , who were going to some fort in the hills and had asked intrested people to call them up . I casually said yes and noted the number on my cell phone . It was already evening and both of us were feeling hungry so we went out for vada pav and sitting on a tapri we were doing some chit chat , when all of a sudden I suggested him of taking Rohini too along with us to the trek , he says ok and we call her up , as usual she thinks we are kidding and says yes I am ready .
The intresting thing was that the trek is the very next morning we are not even sure of going , we have not even called up the group leave alone the bag packing and the stuff and still we went in for the trek .
I called up one of the members of the group , I guess she was Himangi and she says yes you all can sure jaoin us from shivaji station in Pune , they were going to leave at around 6 in the morning I said yes we will and put down the phone .
The journey starts 5 in the morning , I was the laziest person in the whole class but somehow I managed to get up and even woke up Amol , kept some clothes in the bag and left for Rohini's house , amazing she was also ready and standing outside waiting for us , without wasting any time we went to Shivaginagar bus stand to find an enthusiastic bunch of ppl waiting for us . We had a basic introduction of each other and we were in a bus going to .... unfortunately it was so long ago (somewhere in 2005 april ) that I dont even remember the place we went to and I didnt have a camera to capture the pics .
But all I remember was that it was a two days trip where we covered two mountains .
In the first one Rnini was at the end and I was accompaning her all the way , she was feeling very tired (maybe she should have done some dieting before coming) and was on the verge of stopping, all the while I had to motivate her for some more , but unfortunately comes up a hurdle as if the trek was easier without it , but this one was a bit tought and was a bit dangerous too , one wrong foot and you were gone and it was hight too , and I hear Rohini saying you all go ahead I will stay here (if I could record her voice or could even have taken a snap it would have been great , cause words fail me ). My motivation was doing no good for her , luckily we had Ashwin with us , one of the guys from treking group , and he helped her in climbing up . But that was only the beginning of the battle , but after that I didnt hear Rohini cribbing or crying although she was slow in climbing , finally we reached up the mountain by 6 in the evening .
The group had already seen a pace where we would be spending our night . On top of the hill was an old fort with no one staying in it , we were going to stay there . We cooked our food and used candles for lightining as there was no electricity . and then when people were going to sleep I crept out and was gazing at the stars , it was an amazing site and I can never forget that .
Day 2:
Get up early in the morning and go in for the next peak , it was going down this one and then climbing on to the next , this time I wanted to enjoy the climp and moreover by now Rohini was confident so I started chatting with some new people as this was a good opportunity to know and meet someone new , this was not as high as the first one but was much more difficult even some of the experienced people were afaraid when the rocks became a hordle to reach the top but we finally reached up and had some fun there.
This was my first trekking experince and I enjoyed it so much that after thatI became a frequent traveller . Moreover this habit of mine lead me to photography too .
You can have look at my flickr profile :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23078963@N08/.
although I dont rememer all thetreks I have done I thought of listing all the places I have been to during this year .
Places travelled in 2009 consist of :
1) Skandgiri :
2) Sagar : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/SagarTrip#
3) Kunoor beach : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/KanoorKerala#
4) Aero India show : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/AeroIndia2009#
5) Tadiandanimol :http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Tadiyandamol#
6) Wayanad : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Wayanad#
7) Bungee Jumping : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/BungeeJumpBangalore#
8)SavanDurga : http://picasaweb.google.com/coolvins1/SAWANDURGA#
8)SavanDurga : http://picasaweb.google.com/coolvins1/SAWANDURGA#
9) Melukote : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Melukote#
10)Lepakshi : http://picasaweb.google.com/SahaiAbhi/Lepakshi#
11) Ranganath Swamy : http://picasaweb.google.com/coolvins1/Ranganaswamy_vins?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjRw-76wpLO8QE&feat=email#
12) Brighu Lake(Himalayas) : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/BrighuLake
13) Yellagiri
14) Ooty : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Ooty#
15)Not Mekadatu : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/MekadatuWhichWeCouldntReach#
16)Sakleshpur and Mysore Dasara : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/SahaiAbhi/Saklehpur#
17) Kodai-Munnar
18) Puri bhabaneshwar konark(Golden trialgle)
19) Ombattu gudda http://picasaweb.google.com/SahaiAbhi/OmbattuGudda
No comments:
Post a Comment