Travel-Trails

At sundown we were back to our lair, had dinner and campfire! Some people will remember that game of Truth or Dare forever! ;-) There were some pretty nastily crafted questions for unsuspecting folk like Sashwati and Deepthi. I just escaped with naming my crush in THBS. Actually, i was not asked the right question, my fortune! No one let Pavan ask it! ;-)

Even after stubbing out the camp fire, the night was hardly over. We met Swami Abhayananda cloaked inside the flesh and bones of sleepy Abhay! Well, it started with ghost stories from Vipin, but ended with discussions on theology, karma, reincarnation, you name it! I particularly enjoyed pestering Abhay for one story of a fortune teller that i had instantly developed an appetite for. We laid down our funny bones well beyond midnight amidst peels of animated laughter and jokes that even ghosts would have considered blasphemous! Abhay was scared ( citation needed! ;) ) to share our room.

Idli, Gaj, Mountain and the Tiger's appartment

Next day, lazy morning... A very tasty breakfast and off we went to K Gudi. People went berserk for a photo session with one of the tame elephants over there. There were elephant safaries for ladies and some insistent guys. I got some lovely photos of blooming Gulmohar engulfing the forest in its flaming red flowers.

And in the mountains there had to be a trek (logically enough)! No! I am not putting up my own photo here which some sadist shot when i was sweating like a pig. Its totally gross. We also came across a thicket which the ranger said was supposed to have been a tiger's lair at night. I am not sure, i did not find any tiger hair on the many thorns in the thicket or pug marks on the soft soil.

Bliss

Ill-scented and hungry after the trek, we headed back to Bangalore. But the adventure was not over yet. We saw a crude dam on the way, and there was this vast stretch of land, water and mountain that queerly enough reminded me of Windows Xp default desktop wallpaper named as Bliss.

I wondered what name they would have given to this breathtaking sight. I just fell in love with it and shot at it with all kinds of scene compositions that i had known. Well, one of them did end up as Shailesh's desktop. I have, however still kept the old one, which still remains my favorite.