As planned, we Ascenders started from Majestic to explore the Sural water falls and to get deep down into the Sural Valley. And as expected, the next day we reached one hour late from the scheduled arrival time, thanks to Indian Railways. A Tavera was booked to drop us at our starting point. 10 people were all ready with fully loaded backpacks jammed tightly inside a Tavera.
The journey started from majestic. A group of 19 of us gathered at majestic bus stop. To my surprise, there were at least 4 people who were doing their trek for the first time like me. The journey started with a movie The Conjuring, it was midnight, a perfect time to play. After travelling for around 6hrs, we stopped our bus about 2km before the base camp. We reached the base camp at around 6:30 AM, where we were greeted by a pair of dogs :P. After finishing with our morning activities, Vinay & Varun prepared lemon tea for us and had our breakfast which we brought along.One more journey with all those unknown people, to unknown places, for unknown experiences.
Meeting up all of them on a common track, with all the excitement seen clearly on faces.
It might sound a little too much, but we started with colors and skips and whoever had WILD, won…!
Carrying on to playing dumb and back on to the days of understanding the sign languages, surely those ancestors would have had fun…!
Turning down our expectations (not enthusiasm), on those tracks we continued our 'safar'.
Walk in forest, crossing smallest streams, lunching was a good break.
With the ride on the jeeps there was a kick of a different beginning of this journey.
The sound of silence, sight of green, and a drive which cannot be bribed by any power of money!
The haunted house or temple was just a decided place.
But the destination was right there in the middle of the two, right in that space!
Now I know how it feels to have a ray of hope, now I know how difficult it is to maintain it, now i know how important it is to have it…,
For when it is not there, something called darkness will never quit!
Or were we all just celebrating the fact that there were so many people around blessed with their voice as god's gift.
Well, then comes a moment when you feel you are truly blessed, so much so that a tear can roll down from your eyes.
A moment when you have sky to shelter, real stars to perform, wind to set the right breeze, river for the music, ALL of them together to give you those highs..!
Of course we did not forget that there should be a trek in this trek, so this time it was not for a peak of a mountain but the height from where that water falls…!
Splash that water by yourself and you will know how it feels; but for that you got to get dirty, spend your weekend with those snakes, leeches instead of malls!
How it feels to see that water falling, to feel the water falling, to see it upside down, to just be in there.
You would go again like we did, but for that you got to leave your comfort zone and jump in, would you dare?
Out from water and there is a splash from nature in form of rain.
So we got down and jumped in the stream again!
And the magic happens when rain meets music and we witness them complimenting each other.
It gets better when we look around just to find the right company of those rivers, mountains and clouds just to foster.
Or it can, with just Mafia and such other set of games.
Leaving from a common track to get on to a common concrete jungle with all the feelings mixed.
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Written by: Pooja
Image Gallery: Gautham Baliga, Manoj, Johnson Pinto, Megha
Composed by: Chyavan K S
Event organized by: Raveendra G N
Event Date: 28th & 29th September 2013
The Crew: Ashok G, Rahul, Gautham, Manoj Kumar N, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Nitin Sharma, Johnson Pinto, Chandru, Abhishek Guptha, Vijayananda SB, Sudheendra Sharma, Shanthi Prasad J C, Megha DS, Kavyashree KN, Ashwini Rao, Vidya Sagar H, Sudhakar H, Yashaswini, Jayanth V, Sanjay, Raveendra GN
Today morning when the blaring sound of the TV and unforgiving honking of the uncaring motorists of Bangalore (or any other city for that matter) gave me a wake up jolt, did I truly realise my call to wilderness.Like our womb mothers the universal “mother” too handles her children gently, especially at wake up time. She wakes us with the tenderness of a cool breeze and the sweetness of her innumerable nightingales. If the confluence of the chirping birds, buzzing of the busy bees and the whistling of the winds are not her melodious symphony, then what is? Unfortunately, we her children, have distanced ourselves from her in our ambition driven avaricious pursuits and encasing ourselves in economic monstro-cities, where we neither have time nor the inclination to hear her call of losing a child.
