Kar-Na-La
Well, this post comes 5 days late, after the 2nd and hopefully last trek in the Sahaydris. Well, this happened after lots of mails among about 15 people, and 9 finally showing up on the eventful morning.
The entry into the bird sanctuary
The map we read
SD at his antics :)
Karthik at his antics :)
Sarmistha and I at the Drinks Break ;)
An anthill on the way :)
The fort on the top
And we are over that :)
SD - Desperate little kid on the top of the fort :)
The "erection" that SD and Sandhya tried to mount :P
All this happens while we eat :)
And SD poses on the rocks ;)
The Srirams all over the rock
A peacock in the cage
Some 2 hours later, we all managed to get up, and snacks down the stomach, and a bus ride to IIT home sweet home we were by 7 PM. I made a dash to hostel, picked up the money that'd been lying in my suitcase for long, and to Dadar I went to buy my latest prized collection - Canon 350D. :) Yes yes, I own it now :)
The morning - I wait for the woman
Just like any other morning, Sarmistha woke up when given calls at 5.30AM, the time we had hoped for leaving the campus, for the much needed maddu stopover. Having picked her up, we made it to maddu where the rest of the gang - 7 people - SD, SD Jr., Karthik, Jose - the old man, Sandhya, Nivedita, and Bachha were already getting some food packed for the journey. Vadas and a few idlis done, we got to Panvel thanks to the Mumbai local trains.
Train journey
At Panvel, Bachha cut us a deal with the autos, 9 people in 2 autos, for Rs. 150 per vehicle. A 20 min drive, and we were right infront of the starting point at as early as 7.30 AM. A princely sum of Rs. 20 ph, and all of us trodded right over the saying that I always had upheld so far "Vishnoi Doesn't Trek". A few hundred meters up, we saw the map of the complete place. A 3km trail to the fort, or a 6+km trail that showed us some birds (hopefully) and a long walk to go. With three non-trekking people, we chose the "stroll in the park" was what we had hoped for, what it turned out was not bad either. With too much exposing of the newly wed Ash - our trail had burnt leaves on both sides - we had a pleasurable route while we had expected a hot sunny day. Clouds were what did come to our rescue :)
The entry into the bird sanctuary
The map we read
At around 9.30, we were atop the fort, and encountered nice views, had some food, while SD and Sandhya tried their hands at some rock climbing. Lots of Sriram over the place made us crack loads of Emani jokes, and a happy affair done, we started to walk down the trail we had walked up. Then did the slipping of people, and the injuring of ankles happen, with quite a few slips and a couple or so sprains.
Done with all this, at around 12 noon did we arrive at the start point of the Karnala Bird Sanctuary, with no birds sighted but in the cages - a peacock, and a couple of parrots. Then came the tough decision for the group minus Karthik, Sarmistha and I - who had decided to head back to IIT with a stopover at Karthik's place. The choice of proceeding to Alibag, or to Karthik's place where we'd order pizzas and his mom's hand cooked food? All chose the latter, and to Karthik's place we headed. 1.30 PM in there, we all gathered up in his library, some washed, some not, and the pizzas in front of us. Dosas also were made soon, and all gobbled up, one by one we all fell down like a house of cards ;)
Some 2 hours later, we all managed to get up, and snacks down the stomach, and a bus ride to IIT home sweet home we were by 7 PM. I made a dash to hostel, picked up the money that'd been lying in my suitcase for long, and to Dadar I went to buy my latest prized collection - Canon 350D. :) Yes yes, I own it now :)
Labels: IIT, Life, Mumbai, trek
posted by vishnoi @ 8:39 pm
3 Comments:
u mean u missed the awesome fish at "Shan Bhar Vishranti" at Karnala ?? dayaa max!
ummm.. yes. :( never knew of it.
how to reach there from borivali with one day return suraj
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