Kemmangundi, bababudangiri, mullyangiri.... all these were places in my TO VISIT list..... Finally 3 more places are lessened.. ;)
I had been to all these places loooooong ago.. so long ago probably in when i was in school.. 5th std i guess.. i remember that trip soo very well.... Me,deepanna,sandesha,sanjanna and my uncle,aunt had been on this tr
ip..... awesome trip it was... I still remember seeing all those places.... The Green, trek to mullayangiri, deepanna pulling my hand and running to take me up and down the steps.. I can never forget those moments.. I have one nice pic of that time.. deepanna had collected few flowers and made it a bouquet and had taken one snap.. i just love that one....Now that after sooo many years thought should re-visit the place to refresh those memories.. We all planned to visit the places.. me,chaithali,rashmi,achala and ofcourse rukku....
Since all girls trip, traveling,staying was lil thing to be taken care of... We did manage to book the place to stay(Uncle booked a cottage up the hill in kemmangundi)..
Finally the day came.. with all the help of rukku we managed to leave bangalore by 7 :P Reached there by 12... Thanks t
o the driver he stopped wherever he can and went as slow as possible.. :DChoo,rash and achala reached hassan early.. happily had their dinner and were fast asleep before we reached.... :)
Next morning we started with all the enthu..... Had stomach full of dosa and were off to chickmagalur.. Reached chickmagalur we werent finaly planned what should be route taken or the places covered... Had one Awesome coffee at town canteen...... We were yet to buy some salt(sake of leeches).. We headed directly to thippanahally homestay.. This is Achala's cousin's place(Arpitha).. This place is like HEAVEN... Its in a coffee estate which belongs to Arpitha.. We quickly changed and rushed to mullayangiri...
Got into the vehicle to reach sithayanagiri... It started drizlling... we got down in sithalayangiri.. visited the temple.. asked teh pujari whether is it safe to trek to mullayangiri and all that... We started to TREK.. and Wow... drizzle turns to rain.. and wind and what not..... girls thought could trek with umbrella.. Guess what the wind was sooo much that we had to go closing our umbrellas,else chances were more they would flyw ith it..:D
Initially started the trek.... as usual i m bad at directions we couldnt find the right path.. Then kept on walking... it was raining,lots of wind... finally after 15 mins.. could find the path.. :D Yipppppie I could find the way... :D :D :D :D and we had one small dance over the top of the hill on the occasion of finding the right path.. :D He he he he he he he...
Started singing the whole while... started with a nice song.. suddenly a song pops out... "Na Koi Umang Hain.." ... We did make rukmini shut her mouth,... Next turn was for singing few ravichandran hits.... " idu nanna ninna prema geethe chinna.....","Allz Well"...... finally reached the tip... On our way there we had few photographs taken with the help of umbrella(Probably only place the umbrella helped... :D) All drenched we enjoyed the awesome climate.... We all were drenched and dead hungry... Driver was waiting for us up the hill.... We all hogged nicely and took few pics.. It was soo windy that we were worried few of us might even fly.. :D While getting down we took few shots where in we all gave ad for fastrack.. ;)
Came back to Arpitha's place.. she had prepared real nice lunch for us.. Hogged and hogged.. The Mango Hlawa and the Cheese cake deserts were really awesome.... She is a wonderful home maker as well as an excellent cook... After our luch, we did have a look around her.. the garden was awesome... i mean everything about her place is sooo inviting.. I did use my photography skills to take few shots at her garden.. :D I mean it was a wonderful experience... We had few photo sessions and the we left to Kemmangundi..... On our way visited bababudangiri.. Alas some renovation was happening and we couldn't see the place..... we headed towards kemmangundi..
On our way we happened to see one small waterfall.. it had nice steps to get on to the top of it and there was one place where the water crossed the bridge.. water was dead cold.. we loved the exp of it.. it was awesome too.. then started travel again.. it was just around 25 kms to reach the top of the hill.. but it took us more than 2 hours to reach bcoz of the bad roads and ghats... drive was quite dangerous too.. We enjoyed every bit of the travel and scenic beauty....
We reached kemmangundi by 7 i guess.. now started the fun.. none of had network to call up the guy whom we were supposed to contact... and that fellow had gone missing...Belive its hard when it is govt guest house.. people aren't so helpful... :P Then we had to talk to one guy there and finally we managed to get one cottage... we got one cottage with 2 rooms in it... we ate our dinner and we were soo tired we just hit the bed.....
we had plans of visiting hebbe falls the next day morning.. due to the climatic conditions, we had to cancel it and we had to see only kalatgiri and come back to chickmagalur.....We went to have a look into the rose garden in the morning.. Guess what we go there and it started pouring.. We were totally drenched and enjoyed the rainy walk in the rose garden and the z point too.. :) It was lovely getting drenched... After a long time... it was awesome.........Kalatgiri is one more nice place to visit..
Rashmi had to head back to mysore since she h
ad exams on sunday... so we 4 were left to go on with out next plan... Then thought will see belur,halebeedu and my native pushapagiri temple.. managed to visit all the places in time and head back to hassan....Once we came back.. "Bisi holige and Maavina hannina rasayan" was waiting for us.. royally ate and slept that day.. Even that day we were too tired bcoz of the travel and all....
Had one more real memorable trip.. Three cheers to ALL GIRLS...
Hip Hip Hurrah !!!!
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WE ALL ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
