Close your eyes...Just imagine...Deep in forest...No mobile...No crowd...no pollution...no noise...All you see is green, thick forest, a big water fall just in front of your cottage. All you hear is songs of birds, sound of water falling from heaven...Very nice imagination right...But..But.. it came to reality with this trip...Not kidding...Check out below for my journey to this little heaven...
From my childhood, I love water...and water fall is the best way to enjoy water...Have seen many water falls and had a great joy. But this is the first time I enjoyed the falls to fullest of my heart.
Here are quick info before I start...
Started from: Bangalore ( April 6th 2014)
Places: Original plan was to Cover Chikkamagaluru and its surroundings like Mullayangiri, Baba Bundangiri, Kemmangundi.. Check Story to see what it ended up.
Total distance: ~700KM
Gang: Gang of Crazy (Sorry Madly Crazy) 11 people. 9 from my Wife's Team and 2 including me joined them.
Number of Days: Just 2days, 1 night (We can spend even years there...)
Mode of Travel: Took TempoTraverler (12 Seater) ( Ho Yaa it was White Color One ... The Trip Gang will understand this)
Stay: Jhari resort.... Truly Heaven...Check more about it in Story.
Before Going to Story, All the credits of the pics go to few folks (Mukunda,Shreyas,Suraj) Who saved those great moments.
Story begins....
One day my Wife spoke to me about the trip they are planning to Chikkamagaluru and asked me to join (Ummmm So sweet of her right). Said OK right away as I am always on my toes for any trip. Finally decided the place as Chikkamagulru and near by places and finalized the resort as Jhari. Actually it is not right time to visit this place and it will be bit hot and dry...Best time is in Aug to Jan to enjoy pitch green place...So we were prepared in mind that it will not be that great scenic...Planned all pick-up points to pick full gang for wonderful trip.
Started from our house as first place at sharp 3:45am. Then the last Pickup ended in Shiva's house and Finally started actual at 6:30am. Journey started with nice music and we hit our first stop at 8:00am...Swathi delicacy (Near Kunigal)..for breakfast. Already many people gave a good comments on this and especially Vivek told that Vada will be good there....Everybody were hungry and had a nice, tummy full breakfast.
Reached Chikkamagaluru around 12:00pm,and from there we need to go Kymara stop and from there we need to take the road goes to giri resort. At Kymara we took small coconut break and continued. On the way we saw the board of the resort and called those people...
Now Coming to resort part, It is very remote and need to go little deep in jungle. We cannot go in our vehicle as the road is very steep and narrow. We sent our TT to their parking place in other resort they have and the Resort vehicle picked us up. It was a open jeep and we all were standing. The ride was adventures... Atleast 10 hairpin curves and each time he took a U, our heart slipped a little. It was scary as the road is very very narrow and steep. Hardly less than 1 ft left from the tyre... Finally holding our breath we reached the resort which is 2 KM away inside the Jungle by 1pm. And there is a big water fall just in front of resort which is the most interesting part.
It was already lunch time, so we first had lunch. Lunch was very bad with no salt, no spice...Then entered the water Falls...which as awesome...Almost spent 2 hours in water falls.
Had tea, little snacks at 5:00pm and then started UNO game...Few were playing Carroms and few were busy in photography also. It was really fun playing UNO with such a big gang....Each game used to takes atleast 30 min to end. So soon it was 7. IT was dark and dinner will be served by 9. So we went for little night trek... Yaa it was forest and night and we can call our small walk as night trek. Back from trek, started fire camp. Started with few rounds...Yaa...Some had softdrinks and some had...No need to mention...Started music ...Also danced a lot.
It was great time...middle in forest, sound of falls, With favourite music, Cool Breeze, little warm from fire...Wow right??? Took little break and went for dinner. After dinner joined back to fire camp. This fire camp was just for our gang.... It was already 11:30pm....Then go to sleep...wait a sec....NO NO NO...do you know what we did next...? The craziest thing we never did in our life.... Get in to water fall ....Doesn't it sound crazy to be in falls in midnight??... Initially Vivek and Suraj jumped in...Later I collected all my strength and joined them... Water was pitch cold and it was mid night...OfCource the resort folks have put the lights and it was fully safe....Spent in water for about 20mins and came back to tent. And few little more crazy folks still continued to enjoy...
Hardly in seconds...body went in to full sleep mode....
Day-2:
We woke up early 6:30am...You know what...our alarm was the birds sound...I heard a bird sound which was exactly some kind of whistle...And sooo smooth with a nice rhythm....By that time I already saw few folks up and busy in photography, in Yoga , chit chats...
The resort folks encouraged us to take a little trek. We refreshed our body and started the trek. Now as part of this trek they took us to two falls which are the continuation of the one where we are staying.... Trek was also not that easy but required little effort in bending our body which is new to our body. Yaaa we all spend more time in sitting in AC room in same posture digging in to the bugs where only our fingers move... Finally reached the first one and and continued for second one.
Our tummy was already signalling us...Yaa, we were really hungry and breakfast is not yet ready...ho no...With in little wait we got the food. Food was sooooo tasty....everybody enjoyed it...After a bad experience of last day's food we were finally happy with food. What's next after breakfast....? Again went into water fall...Again enjoyed the same way as we were seeing the fall first time...After about 2 hours of fun... came back to tent and had a nice hot water bath and time to packup... Packed everything and waiting for jeep again to drop us to the main road.
Finally Jeep came and our soles filled with joy and little sorry of missing the place...Anyway...its not last and we will surly come back to this place....
