Wayanad

Bored of city life and want to go out somewhere and have some fun . Do go out for Wayanad , its a place for fun loving energitic people , there are som many places to visit that you simply cant waste your time sleeping or relaxing over a place .

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 not 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 aor 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 .