Trip or something like it

One early Sunday morning

Vishnu Bhagwan (not the god, but one crazy friend) wakes me from my slumber to tell he has left home and is on the way to pick up our German colleagues who were accompanying us on our trip to bluff falls and talakad. I think he picked them... what the hell... he did pick them from their hotel - 3 of them Martin my lead, Klaus his lead and Wolfgang his manager.

Sachin the Sutta man (cos we are smoking all the time together)... the shop in front of us always has business as long as we are in SAP. Well, he was also picked up. Last but not the least; even I got picked after a brisk 1 km walk from home. Greetings exchanged, we were on the way.

I had not had breakfast; thankfully Sutta man had got some paratha... had it gleefully. Then, we were on our way to our first destination - Bluff Falls.

The roads were a mixed emotion... sometimes too bad, sometimes exceptionally good - Sutta man always saying these roads are still better than koramangala. Bluff at last.

Bluff was overflowing with water... we were not allowed to go down to the waters. As one sign said... "THIS IS A WATERFALL... NOT A SWIMMING POOL". Ppl give gyaan in the weirdest of ways don’t they??

Then, we decided that we will go to other side of the waterfall as we saw lots of ppl swimming around. It was a 15km ride down there. Once we got there, we all changed into something more appropriate and headed down. There were lots of ppl and we all soon became one with them.

We decided to go to foot of the waterfall (it like the mouth of the volcano he he) and had to cross a strong current. Klaus I forgot to mention was unwell and was fasting almost the whole day. Now, he decided he wanted to come with us. We were crossing the river holding hands so that none of us would get washed away. Klaus the daring wanted to go all the way alone...didn’t want any help and soon enough was in the water. Luckily for him, we were there to get him up and running. But, I really admired his strength to do it by himself, in spite of being sick.

We went to the other side, had a lot of fun standing right under the waterfall, and me the NGC photographer went clicking snaps there too. We came back, climbed back with some effort, and were off the place.

Think this is getting a bit long, so cutting the long story short, our next place was talakad where we played some football (fuss ball as the Deutschlanders call it) on the sand. We drew 4-4. We took a guided tour of the place, visited some temples and headed back home. Dinner on the way, and I was dropped home by 11.30.

Overall nice day it was. :D