April 8, 2008

Kabhi alvida na kehna

Well.. you can't say goodbye to someone who is very much a part of you right?!

Anyway, our office gang went on a trip (probably one which will be cherished by all for many reasons) to Anejhari nature camp near Kollur. The place was pretty nice, but not all that clean. The best part was the fact that the camp, as well as the falls, is completely isolated from civilization, almost amidst a forest!
The trek to the ArshinagunDi falls was awesome, through a jungle, avoiding leeches, admiring the forest, the trees and flowers, the light and shadows...


Most of them almost gave up at one point of the other. Very tiring it was.
The falls was a welcome relief. Not much water, but the pool near the falls was peaceful.





The next day, after a quick visit to Kollur Mookambika devi temple, the gang tried their hands at kayaking on the river Varahi. Needless to say, I made myself busy with Shhande's camera :-)


River Varahi


Sailing through the storms?


YeLe chiguru..


loved the greens in this one.


berry berry!


Mimosa pudica :-D

After lunch, sudks made a quick decision, and as a result we found ourselves climbing the Agumbe ghats (quite a fuss my tummy made over this!) and made it on time to watch the sunset. What a sight that was! Truly awesome. Some pics from Sudks here.
The next decision was to visit Pabba's in Mangalore (but, of course, how could we miss that out of this trip!?!?!) As always, it was almost closing time when we reached there. We quickly made our orders and for the first time I had a non-chocolate ice-cream!! :-) Reached Bangalore on Sunday morning.

The trip had its moments:
- 2 friends waiting for the rest on the banks of Varahi - one reading, the other 'contemplating' ;-)
- Singing happy birthday in the TT, for dkoya.
- The camera experiments in the camp!
- Experiencing nature and seeing it "through my eyes rather than the camera's" (as someone had 'advised' :-) , but this was just because my camera conked up during the trip!)
....missed some more, which were the best..how ironic! will update as and when I recollect.







9 comments:

Samparka said...

1. As usual the writeup just tells me how bad i am at my writing :-P

2. i loved the snap with shadow of touch me not .....

3. But the title does not seem appr atleast for me !!!

Anyways it was an awesome trip , awesome gang :-) Thanks for making it !!!

vinu said...

@sudks: boss..u write well too! title was connected remotely to the post :-) thnks a lot for organizing it :-D

Josh said...

ahoy! advice is a noun. advise is a verb.
so u were 'advised' by someone :D
nice mimosa that one! :-) and nice to know that you had such a memorable trip :-)

Anonymous said...

Nice write up :)

I liked this one..."2 friends waiting for the rest on the banks of Varahi - one reading, the other 'contemplating' ;-)"

And looks like there are some who teach you english also :D

vinu said...

@sameer: thnks :-)
and oh..can u see the halo? ;-)

@sandhya: yeah...tel me anout it!!:-D
thanks...felt your write-up was betr :-)

Shekhar said...

Pabbas .... u wont have any idea just how much i miss it ??!! :(( some snaps of pabbas ice cream plzzz ... and I bet u missed somethin by not having choco ice cream ! nice writeup!

vinu said...

@shekhar: thnks.. :-)
no pics of pabbas..sorry abt tat :-( and yeah.. i alwayz hav choc thr.. this time just "tasted" it!!

snellika said...

"2 friends waiting for the rest on the banks of Varahi - one reading, the other 'contemplating' ;-)"
who are these? :)

bad pics. obba manshaanu illa pics alli. :P and after every trip,in the blogs you have to write " we missed snellika". :P

vinu said...

@suraj: me and bhuvan of course! :-D people pics bere avara hathra irathe swalpa vichaarasko ;-) i need not say u r missed alva..isn't it implicit ;-)