I was sitting in my friends room watching Indians thrashing Aussies when a call ringed up and Anil was on the other side who put forward a plan for a two day trip to Ghatikallu (check out official site) and then as always I was tempted to say yes and this time I had my own dough (money) to go by. So the instant reply was that I am ready. Let’s rock and roll. So the trip started with three of us (me,Thangi and Daddy) seated in Paulo(Volvo) bus from Chennai to Bangalore with old classic hindi songs and oye Lucky oye movie, two pretties and a foreign tourist pair to watch along the way. We reached in there by 8:30 on Friday night and then met Naach after a long time who as always was hilarious kept passing the minuscule of time. Later JD (jaydeep) joined in who was equally funny and then Rakshith, Shreyas and Pranav with one full case Knockout Premiums (12 bottles) in their hand. We already had shopped 2000ml of director’s special black to keep us trippy though I escaped with a quarter of Romanov. Anyway later we hopped on to red bus of KSRTC to tumkur which was two hours late in its departure time which we made fun of along the way to Tumkur.
After reaching Tumkur, we had a long walk to reach Daddy’s (Hemanth) home and then took rest for a while and then left there with Innova to carry us to our destination. Daddy as the pride owner of it took the driver seat and I took a corner seat and Naach didn’t get a seat (pity him). So we left to Ghatikallu in this fashion. I don’t know about the journey since I was sleeping all the way, we reached there by almost 9:30am on the Saturday morning with a few stops here and there for fagging.Along with Daddy, Shreyas also took turns in driving us along the way.
Soon we were given a cottage which protruded from the plain ground in a coffee estate into the wide open panorama of the western ghats. We took rest for a while there and then left to have breakfast where we were accompanied by another team who were from Goldman sacks. One mad guy in their team was barking that he would bet his salary stating India would lose World cup which pissed us off especially JD who waited for a chance to break a bottle on his head all through the two day stay there. There were also some corporate chicks with minis in their team which created nausea in me. Anyway that’s me. So we left after breakfast to a falls in a 4x4 cruiser (jeep) which is within the estate which is no doubt remote and free from Homo-Sapiens invasion. Sadly everyone knew swimming except me and I am inherently very frightened of water because of some reasons. Anyway so I was screwed and others were restless enough to wear the life jackets and then jump into the waters (even I went into it eventually). They surely had a blast there and I felt like thrashing myself for not knowing swimming. So everyone except me were fearless to mount on the uphill side-by and jump into the water daringly with different diving style each time captured with finesse by the organizer itself Sandesh Ignatius.
After the diving extravaganza, we came back to home-stay to have a sumptuous meal and then took rest. In the evening, we were again taken to another spot which was magnificently beautiful. We were taken there for the sun set view. I simply can’t bring the feeling in words; it was one awesome place to go. We stayed there until the orange paiyyan (Sun) to disappear and then left in the dark to the home-stay again.
All was set for the party, loud music, loads of ethyl alcohol and trippers to gulp it down. It turned out to be quite different than what happened every time. No loud music and no funny tripping this time. Naach went senty and JD was all silent, Anil and Shreyas secluded from us were busy in their Floydism, Later Pranav picked up and as usual brought out colgate smiles in us.
Next day, We were about to leave for trekking in the morning but as all of us slept very late with sleeping drink inside, nobody woke up early, Even though Shreyas kept pestering us all throughout the early morning, Naach and Pranav begged us to allow them sleep, so we left to the top again in the 4x4 cruiser by 10 o’clock through the estate and only 4x4 drive could go into such up-hill roads and somehow we reached the spot. There was one more WOW after reaching the spot. We also got to know the legend of the spot. The secret cave lurking in the rocky hill of Ghatikallu. We cursed ourselves for not waking up early. I still feel the trip was definitely incomplete without watching the fort and the top spot. Anyway, we have Sandesh whom we can always contact and have one more adventure. We then left the place to have lunch back in home-stay and while leaving, we had this gentle rain and the smell of soil was pleasing enough. So we left to Tumkur and JD suddenly went hyperactive and took the responsibility of keeping us entertained all through the journey and we had a puncture also in the way just to add some spice into the journey. It was race against time since we had to catch the train in the night to Chennai and somehow we were able to win the race with Daddy’s Dad’s help. We also had a small meeting with the birthday boy Poki in the railway station and then again we ran to catch the train. Funny thing was train left half an hour late that day. So this is how two days went by and filled some rejuvenation in the dried up souls of Ours.…!!
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