... and then there was another trek

I had been to one trek trip without knowing what it really was all about. When I returned from it, all swollen and limping, I was sure that i was done with my share of adventure. I was done with trekking, but somehow trekking was not done with me.
So when Om’s friend (and now mine too) Jinal came down to Bangalore, he being the adventure freak planned a trekking trip with the ever hungry for adventure guys Diptesh and Lohith. I was pooled in as well. In typical Om’s style, I was just informed that we have to go for a trek.”You are coming”. Not “Are you coming?” But my guard was up. If life would have been a movie, on the screen that time, the scene would be the flashbacks of the super tiring last trip. I tried giving him all reasons Anyhow!! He convinced me to come along and go along I did.
So was this trip as scary as I was anticipating it to be? Not really! Turned out that the trek route was beautiful, the company was fun and weather was decent. Since this was an almost chilled out trip, with nothing super-different happening, here are just a few highlights :
Power packed little trekker: Diptesh introduced us to Suman. A quite, pretty tiny girl. Now I know never to underestimate little people. A very very useful lesson! This little girl climbed wet stones, ran down hill, jumped, walked and never complained. We were just amazed! And by the way ..... this girl can blow that shrill whistle! The Bhopal ki bharat talkies back benchers whistle!! Hats Off Suman!!!! You rock!

Smiling lonely farmers: We stopped by a lonely house where an extremely friendly family stayed. They welcomed us with a very sweet smile and gave us these big cucumbers to eat which tasted awesome. We just dug our teeth in them and tasted the most amazing ever cucumber.

Leeches Screeches: To say that Jinal was scared of leeches would be an understatement. Petrified ... maybe! Horrified/terrified ... Use any word! Be my guest! You get the point. Jinal would screech at the top of her lungs when attacked by leeches. Unfortunately, poor girl was attacked the most. But she had so many of the leeches coming on her, that I am sure she might have overcome her fear by now. I know you will be the bravest of all when it comes to fighting with Leech attack in the next trek Jinal!

Awesome Nature: One of the points why I was being super-reluctant to go to the trek was because I felt I was done with mountains. I mean I have crossed off Laddakh from my list! How much more of mountains can a person take? But still, mountains and clouds have some way of mesmerising you every time. The more we climbed up towards the peak, the more beautiful the valley seemed. When we were at the peak of Kodachadri, sitting and enjoying the mountains, the clouds descended suddenly and everything went white. Nature truly never stops to marvel you. The return trek was from the middle of dense forest and again it was wonderful.

Marvanthe Beach: This had to be the highlight of the entire trip. Now we had two hard core “I love Mumbai” mumbaikars with us. To my surprise, they were more excited to go this beach than the rest of us. I mean it is like an MP-iya like me getting excited over poha! Bad comparison I know!! But then , it was fair for them to get so super kicked about it. No beach, Mumbai or Goa was so clean, serene and beautiful! The best part was the road which had beach at one side and back waters at the other. It was by far the most beautiful place I had seen in Karnataka.

The company: If the company is good, the fun of a trip doubles. We talked in our way, played Uno in a dark room, helped each other throughout the trek and kept chattering on our way back. Thank You Diptesh, Lohith, Suman, Jinal and Om for making this a super rocking trip!

PS: Will be adding the pics soon!