Skip to main content

My Travel Stories - Dandeli!


This was around two years ago, we were a group of 12 girls who went on a trip to Dandeli, in Karnataka, India. We were a gang of friends, friend's gang of friends and so on. It was a very short trip but was the most thrilling trip of my life so far!! We did a lot of activities like kayaking, nature walk and so on  but the most dangerous and adventurous one was river rafting in the river Kali. We were all set with life guards and paddles. Till the last moment I was convinced that I am not doing it, and if I do, I will not finish it alive. The River Kali looked so full of force and vigor. My friends convinced me to go for it, and I could not believe how I ended up in the line. That line - waiting for my turn to put a signature on a sheet of paper that said they are not responsible if anything happens to me, including death. Wow. We started off, and the guide was a bold and young guy who took the responsibility of twelve young ladies in their early twenties. LOL. I'm saying this because I thought anything could have happened that day! He gave introduction about himself, his past work and about this river and how dangerous and exciting it is. I was like yeah right. Then, he told us to jump into the water to get the feeling. And suddenly few of my friends jumped into the water. I was like Whattttt!!! Then he told us how to row the boat and made us sit accordingly to balance the weight of the boat and told us how to bend down and look up in an instant every time he shouted out instructions. We did some mockups too. Then we started going into the river. The water seemed like flowing into something, from something and without any destination, like a snake moving. OMG! I was freaking out!!! I did not even know swimming!!! Then came the first spot - and he instructed us to BEND!! And there came a splash of water above me and on me and onto the boat. OMG!!!! This was not an amusement park, it was a LIVE flowing RIVER full of LIFE!!! I was breathless!!! I almost started crying. My friend hugged my and said 'Nothing will happen, we are all with you!'. Then came another one, and another one. With every 'spot' in the river that could be cherished by the people who are insane (adventurous) my heartbeat doubled and my prayers too. And for one of the spot, two of the girls toppled out of the boat and the guide got them onto the boat somehow. I was terrified. We reached the end alive. To someone who loves this kind of adventure, river rafting in Dandeli is an amazing experience. To someone like me who do not know swimming and find rafting in such a river harrowing, it is a nightmare. It was one hell of an experience, in every true sense!!!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Minus Them Lifelines

So, here’s the thing…our lives have been largely consumed by technology. We are able to work, stay connected, and stay entertained – thanks to the internet and smartphones. Now, let’s assume, hypothetically, phones and internet seize to exist from tomorrow. Scary isn’t it? What could be the repercussions? Here are some of them from random angles:   Television Kids would watch whatever cartoon runs on TV, adults would watch either cricket or news, whatever comes on TV. There would be absolutely no preference or something like Netflix and Prime that used to exist -watch on your whims and fancies. Burn in hell!!   Food You would cook whatever you know, or learn (like not to burn the roti) eventually. No step by step recipes to read or watch and try out. No home delivery of food, get your ass to the restaurant and get takeaway, you would rather have your food there, right?   Parenting You would not be able to feed the kid by playing the SAME effing video that wo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Sizzling Six

Okay, so it's been around five years of our knowing each other but lately we have been having kick ass experiences as a gang of six girls. Guys kept coming and going to be a part of the gang but what really stayed on is us, the sizzling six. You might think I'm going a little too much on the self-flattering side by telling 'sizzling', hell, no. The reason being, no matter what we did in the campus (or sometimes what we did not do) was blown out of the proportion and we were praised/blamed/looked upon/looked down upon unconditionally (One does, the rest gets the credit/otherwise by default). Even though we dressed normally, it stood out among the crowd in the not-so-posh-crowd campus. Yeah, like normal girls, we had issues with each other but that mainly was based on other's opinion than our own. But, sooner or later we learn to forgive each other's small and big mistakes.               And yeah, talk about the crazy things we have done! ...
Post a Comment
Read more

My BFFs

  We could be celebrating (hypothetically) seven years of friendship now! These two girls mean a lot to me. The beauty is that no matter what they do, right or wrong, I dont go all judgmental (even in my mind). And  I feel the same thing when I tell them my sweet secrets and dark secrets. So I dont think twice before sharing my life with them. The best part was the fact that we stayed so close by that we could meet up almost daily. Way back in college, when we used to go to the same tuition, meeting everyday was mandatory anyway. So, we had to meet at one place at around 6 45 in the mornings to go the tuition, to which we would walk. And, the walk! It would hardly take five minutes but it felt like a long fulfilling walk where in those few minutes while we walked to the tuition. All the things that happened  the  previous day would be updated in that little promenade. Laugh like lunatics, comment on each and every person or even animal that p...
2 comments
Read more