Friday, March 21, 2014

A Jaunt with college friends long looked-for. :)


A get-together in the form of an outing with college friends after almost 7 years is definitely an achievement. Plans unless planned and executed properly will always end up as a flop show, nevertheless this time we were very sure of making it.

Few reasons below:
1.    Only 7 members :P ( 3 regular participants couldn’t make it L )
2.     All were sure shot enthusiasts
3.     Each one craving for a break from routine monotonous work life.

So here is the glimpse of our trip for those,
1.    Who couldn’t make it and would love to know the details
2.     Also for those who did make it and would love too to recall the details.

IDEA:                              Srilakshmi alias Doubt lakshmi alias Raw lakshmi
INITIATION:                     Lali the great. :P
ORGANISER:                     Karthik Sir and little credits to me(Venkat).
PHOTOGRAPHERS:           Vinu the champ and Karthik Sir
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS,
COMEDIANS,
POSING TEAM etc etc:        Venkat, Swathi, Sri, Divya and Lali And that makes the entire crew.
DESTINATION:                  Wild wag Tail Resort, Sakaleshpura ( A Calm beautiful resort amidst the Western ghats accompanied by a quite river )

INITIAL HLD ( High level Design ):
To start n 15 Mar 2014, Saturday, at 6:30 AM SHARP from Lali house where snacks and coffee would be arranged by Lali.
I would pick Sri, Swathi and Vinu and reach Lali house.
Karthik to pick Divya from Kolar and reach Lali house

And address as directed by lalitha.

Esteem mall gotta?
Esteem mall ryt barutte when u coming to my place
Take service road from there
Left nalli srigandha palace anta conventional hall barutte
Take left from their
About 2 kms u will get a ganesha temple
Thats a circle
Allinda kodigehalli railway gate barutte.
gate aadmele 2nd right....
U will find manas clinic. Its 2nd left. Dead end right namm apartment.  Paramount Pride.

Mr. Vinu made us wait for 15 minutes and Karthik arrived little late for relying on his Google maps. Lol. :P
Ended up starting at 7:30(IST). Coffee wasn’t arranged by Lali for her own “Reasons..” Irli irli….

Started our voyage in Mahindra Xylo with a Formula-1 driver. Yeah, this guy was a real rapid driver. Hardly were there times when he drove below 120 KMPH. Our entire journey was a roller coaster ride(Driver rather).
The moment we boarded in, Karthik and Swathi said, “ Hey aakali, thindham ra “(hungry, let’s eat). We stopped after 1 hour just as we came out of city limits. We had to walk across the barricade to reach hotel in service road. Looking at our ladies struggling to jump the barricade, security of the restaurant gave his chair for support. Thanks to him J
Ordered Masala dosa, Idly, bisibele bath Poori and coffee.

One funny incident here. Karthik ordered Bisibele bath. Server gave the same with mixture.

Karthik:“Swalpa Sambhar koDi”.
Server: “Hmmm Tagoli sir“.
Karthik: “Swalpa Curd koDi”.
Server: “iLLa sir”.
Karthik:  Pointing at the curd present in Curd vada “Allinda koDi”.
Server: “Sir adhu curd vada. koDok aagolla. Sweet iruthe”
Karthik: “Swalpa kodri“
Server gave a cold stare at him and finally gave curd in a small cup.
Ultimately Karthik sir didn’t finish the curd because it was SWEET :P
Started back.

One of the Highlights of the trip: I had bought my slam book which was written by college friends in the last semester.
It was real fun when Karthik read out all of them with his special effects and extra fittings. Fantastic to compare how people used to think 8 years ago and now what they are up to.
Had a nice time to recall all silly/funny/emotional/idiotic moments of college life.
Outcome of this session of reading Slam book was I got one more title ”Naughty or naati (as in naati koli) “

As we reached Sakaleshpura, Sri and Swathi developed puking signs. To add to this was the Ghats drive and unmaintained roads to resort. Never can we miss such a chance, tried our best to make sure they puke it out. Chanted mantras with Lemon, narrated how a mixer or grinder works in stomach, spoke only and only abnout Vomit, provoked, teased almost did everything but in vain. They somehow controlled and we reached the resort at around 12:30 PM

Weather wasn’t favoring as it was little hot. Got freshened and came to have lunch.
A Carom board was free. Thought of playing a couple of games. Vinu didn’t give any of us any chance to play as he was directing all the coins to pockets one after the other. He was playing as if he is contesting for international competition. We had to make him calm by saying, “Maga samadhana maadko, idhu just for fun.”
Indeed he plays really well. J
The only person who could give any fight to Vinu was Swathi. With no time she used to clear all the coins, although most of them used to fly out of board and land few meters away due to the enormous amount force she puts. :p :p Lol, the moment she gets the striker, she strikes, No target, no direction, nothing.” Banthu , Hodi, Magandhu yennaadru aagli”.

Lunch time, Food was good. Took rest for a while, then started our trek to a water falls near by. Clicking Photos on the way was fun, trek was cool as it was densely covered by trees.
Reached falls…. The water was so damn cold that we couldn’t stand there for more than a minute. But Swathi was standing with absolutely no effort. Donno how she managed. Then we too got some motivation from her and played well , posed well for photos( really well as Sri was directing with various stupid postures :P)

By the time we reached back resort, there was a small water game called Zip line. All my cunning friends told me to try first as I knew swimming and I agreed.
Sat on the Zip line and they released the rope. The moment I reached the pond, I had to stay quite there. But I tried to jump off it( as this bugger Karthik wished me to do so) and I  hurt myself on hands, head and leg.
Hmm. I jumped and swam to safe. But I didn’t tell anyone that I was hurt as I was afraid they wouldn’t try the game. I wanted them also to get hurt :P :P Uahahahaha.
Lalitha was the next. She tried, she was hurt too. I asked
“ Yene yet bitha”
Lali: “Hun kano. Bithu”
Me: “Sari yaargu heLbeda, heLudre, avru barolla “
Lali: “Ya ya sure kano :P ”

Then I guess it was Sri , Divya, Vinu, Swathi and Karthik in the row. As everyone came down, I and Lali used to asked “Yet bitha”. But unfortunately for us no one was hurt. Or may no one revealed although they got hurt. :P :P

Next comes the fascinating part.
THE HOLI ………………….


Resorts guys had arranged colors for us to play HOLI. Great thanks to them J
There were many groups and gangs in the resort playing Holi; but our batch wasn’t comfortable to mingle with them. So we played separately, nonetheless we had mammoth amount of fun.
At one stage we hardly could identify our own crew. Fully immersed in colors, Karthik was looking like a Peacock at one stage, I was resembling a character in AVATAR movie, Lali a ghost, etc.
Someone in the gang put color in Divya’s nose(Dviya claims it was me who put the color :P). So now one wicket down hurt injured as she silently sat in one corner.
She was struggling to breath. So I dropped her back in the tent and came back with a cup a coffee.
While I was walking down towards our holi gang again, they were staring at me like a stranger. Finally they could recognize me only with my colorful Goa shorts ( :P )
Idiot Karthik put colors in my coffee cup too :P
We played, posed for plenty of photos, finished all the colors and we were done.


After taking bath for really long time in an effort to remove the colors, we spent almost 2 hours. By now, Camp fire was up. Warmed ourselves well, people started dancing and screaming. But we didn’t join.
Played couple of rounds of badminton, Cards( Bluff, raja rani ) and had a nice dinner.

Now it’s time to sleep. It was a tent. A decent one. Started making all weird noises including snoring sound to irritate people.
Slept for few hours. Then got up for the Trek.

All geared with trek shoes, hat, goggles and full josh. I told how can we even start without a coffee. :P
Made everyone wait for almost 20 minutes until the coffee was served.
Vinu made the best use of this time to capture our profile pics.

Trek to Falls.:
Again, the josh we had was enough to keep us trekking without many breaks. A wonderful trek to the hill top.
Halted for a while in the pond or a small water outlet. Spent a nice time there and started towards the hill top.
Divya and Lali were out of strength by now. Motivated them to proceed and took them along. As we reached top of first hill, huge force of wind started pushing us. We turned back to see wonderful scene of mountains , dense trees covering us from a good height.
We decided to sit there and enjoy the view. We did the same for almost 30 minutes. It was a mind blowing scene with serene but windy environment.

As it was sunny by then, we trekked back to resort.
Had breakfast at 1:00 pm, took bath and packed our bags to the return journey.

Its again time for roller coaster ride in our Xylo. We were all damn sleepy. The moment we boarded in Car we thought of taking a nap but Sri had a different expression on her face. We got to know what it was only when she shouted, “Vomit Vomit…”
Halted the car , as she put omlet for almost 10 minutes.  Lali was there behind her to see the contents of vomit as she could explain us, “Chitranna banthu, Neeru banthu, juice banthu “ Lol and Yuck  too :P

At almost 5 PM, we halted in a dhaba after Hassan for lunch.
Full on batting here, Koli , Kuri, gobi, panner, biriyani, roti, lime soda, sprite.. J

Started back and reached Lali house by 9 PM.
And that marks the end of a wonderful get together in the form of trip J

Special thanks to Madhu( Lali’s Husband for booking the Xylo ) and all our fantastic friends for making a memorable trip happen.
Hope to see you all again soon in our next mission.
Cheers :)

Other details:
Overall distance covered: approximately 600 Kms
Cost per person: Approx 3500 Rs

Regards,
Venkat


Thursday, July 28, 2011

Timely help from Bala

I now have a great feeling of satisfaction and happiness bcoz I helped my friend who was in great need.
The story goes like this…….

He was deeply in love with a girl and so was the girl with him. Both their parents were against the marriage. As usual , stupid caste problems. :)

I and my friends decided to get them married .We took them to a temple and got them married. I was so relived and happy. All was fine so far.

I got to know that boy’s parents were furious about our act and in fact they were in search of us. I hid in my friend’s house in Amaravathi nagar, Bangarpet.

Later half of the day, from sources I learnt that they have somehow located me and approaching me to take revenge.

I was afraid, I had to run helter-skelter to save my life. I put some shawl over my head and started walking down the street. Suddenly I realized a Sumo full of rowdies approaching my way and I quickly jumped into an auto (Front seat along with the driver). Literally begged those passengers (an aunt, uncle and a kid) to co-operate with me for some time to get rid of the situation. Auto driver was kind enough to drop them soon and take me to a place where it is safe to take a deep breath. However I learnt that those ppl have blocked all the ways to get out of Bangarpet.(Railway station , bus stand and all the small gullies too)

But I being the local boy, knew a route to escape from Bangarpet which they dint know of.

I explained the auto driver about the entire situation and he was completely impressed by my helping nature. He gave me a word that he’ll help me escape from them by hook or crook. Then I realized that the Auto Driver is none other than BALA.. (But he is a stranger--- and yeah this was all in my dreamz on Monday morning :)) (Actually for those who don’t know Bala, he is my colleague)

Ok coming back into the story, I mean my dreamz, I asked Bala If I can get 600 Rs that I can return him once I escape from that area. Balu was kind enough to lend me the money (A normal auto driver lending some stranger 600 Rs was a great deed) and take me out from there.. Finally I escaped from those rowdies. I turned back to Bala to thank him. At that moment I heard Vodafone music, ooh my mobile was ringing. It read

“Mom calling…””
I answered “Yem Maa”

She said “Rey 7:30 aaya, lechi rara - office ki time aaya”
(Hey its 7:30, get up, you’re getting late to office)..

Oh Boyy, It was a wakeup call from my mom from downstairs…


Got up and started thinking...

Which movie was I influenced from ??
Y was Bala an Auto driver??
Y did I ask only 600 Rs ???

Cheers,
Venky

Sunday, March 7, 2010

PART 2 - Yet another wonderful outing with friends to INNOVATIVE FILM CITY.

Note : I hope you've read Part 1 of this post, please read it now otherwise...


Only bad thing about this complete outing was the weather… It was tooooooo sunny… 

We bought 699rs tickets which actually should have covered everything inside but didn’t.
Though we thot the ticket would allow us to visit everything, there were many activities which had separate entry fees. Nevertheless , 699rs was worth it.

The places we visited there were
1. Warnado entry
2. Mirror bizarre
3. Dino park
4. Roller coaster
5. Mini golf
6. Wax museum
7. Skating 
8. 4D movie
9. Aqua World
10. Go carting
11. Happy journey
12. Haunted mansion

Note : I might have missed few and names mentioned above may not be exactly same.

I would like to describe few out of all where we enjoyed the most. 

Warnado entry is a place which will be mostly made use for shooting.
It had a dental clinic where I posed as a doctor and Thanuja the patient. 
It also had an old 70s scooter on which all our girls (oops, aunts) sat and posed for pics.
There was also a court, where Bruce became the judge, Jay and Divya became lawyers, Thanu and jumbo posed as culprits. There were court related costumes as well which we all wore and posed for pics.

Roller coaster, as you all know will be the most thrilling ride. This one was nonetheless thrilling than any other rides anywhere. Jumbo was scared to get into the roller coaster but she was very excited to get on the toy horse ride. (Kids game). Everybody except myself and Jay took that ride.. Just like school kids, they were enjoying it. This made me feel that, we have gone back to our school life :) 

Minigolf.. Nobody knew how to put the ball in the hole. Not even aware of the rules. But still we wanted to play it as we had paid for it… 

Wax museum was best so far… We could see many wax statues of famous personalities such as, MK Gandhiji, M Jackson, Bill Clinton, Adolf Hitler and many more.. We were not supposed to touch any of them. But I was so keen to sit beside Hitler and to take a snap with him. I told Divya to monitor if there is any guard coming in the way and intimate me and I thot I would take a snap. But when I just looked up, I saw a CCTV camera constantly monitoring us… Good that I saw, or else I would’ve got belted properly.

Skating was another funny thing… Nobody knew how to skate.. As already said, we wanted to try everything as we had paid for it.. With full Enthu, we wore skate shoes and got into the skate hall. Damn, in the very first step we fell down. Vinu initially couldn’t even reach the skate hall, then somehow managed to get in… There was none among us who could complete one round without falling down…

It was 3:30 pm by this time and we were damn hungry… Lunch in the food court wasn’t great but since we were tired, had to adjust with what we got… Here the discussion about college life started again… After having lunch, we went to 4D movie.

I can say, 4D was the best of all.. This was just a 10 minutes movie where we could actually experience everything that was happening behind the screen. The visual effects were better than AVATAR 3D. We could feel the water being spilt on us, the seats moving up and down, air being blown on us in accord with the scene and also feeling of rats climbing thru our pants…:) :) This was awesome… One should watch this in their lifetime.

After 4D, we all thought of visiting AQUA world, the beach… Though people were initially reluctant to get into the water, once we got in, we were so reluctant get out of it.. The water was so crystal clear, not much depth and the wave pool which was generated at the end gave us a real feel of beach environment…

Then after having a couple of rounds of Go-Karting, we went to visit Haunted Mansion, the most awaited one.. The clock showed 7:15 pm and the guard did not allow us inside as it was late… But we had to argue a lot to get inside.. Finally we succeeded. Here comes the actual fun… Haunted house was very well planned and designed. We could see some deadbodies suddenly getting up in the middle of our journey, some wierd animals descend down all of a suddeen,  Mummys appear from no where, supported by horrifying sounds, dark and blood shed ambience , everything was perfect to give us a haunted feeling. But before entering itself, ,myself and Jay had made plans of scaring them all more.. As soon as we entered the mansion, we both hid behind some rocks and started scaring all the girls by jumping in front of them just out of blue.. Hahahah, the way they were screaming made the journey more interesting and fun loving..They all said,”More than those mummys and deadbodies, we were scared of Venky and Jay”… :P :P… In between Lalitha was so terrified that she started blabbering “Hey alli nodo, yaaro bartha iddare…(Hey look there, I feel that someone is coming…)”… Her wild imagination provoked us to scare them more… We all came out of mansion.. Here comes the actual comedy.. I came out last and I was all fine until I saw Sowmya’s face.. As soon as I saw her face, I started screaming as if I saw a ghost..(Ofcourse pretended)… Got nice beatings from her…

Finally this was the time to depart as the clock ticked 7:30 PM and film city would close. We started our journey back to Bengaluru, dropped everyone at their doorsteps. Thanuja was the last one among girls to get dropped.  

I hope by now you all got to know why this get-together was a special one…

3 Cheers to all my friends who made this happen…

Cheers,
Venky

PART 1- Yet another wonderful outing with friends to INNOVATIVE FILM CITY

This time it was with classmates. It was supposed to be a reunion of GVIT (Golden Valley institute of technology) ISE(Information Science) 2006 pass outs however turned out to be a small get-together with 8 people( Gang of 8 close friends).
Vinu(Thalai)
Jay(Cheta, Sujay)
Sowmya(Jumbo)
Thanuja(Nirma) 
Ragini(Brucelee)
Divya(Billi)
Lalitha(I don’t think this lady had any other name) and
Myself.

Most of the times, the get-togethers we planned used to end up as a flop show. Nobody used to show interest in making it happen. But this time we managed to make it.
I have few strong reasons which actually made me write a blog about this outing.
Unlike our usual get-togethers, this one was special. 
 Vinu and Lalitha had night shifts on Friday and still they managed to join us on Saturday morning. I think they didn’t even have a couple of hours of sleep.
 Jaykanth, despite suffering from cough and cold didn’t want to skip the outing as he wanted this get-together to happen.
 Divya had to apply leave on Saturday.

This idea of get-together after almost a year was actually initiated by Divya the great and organized by Vinu the leader. So I would like to take this chance to appreciate both of them.  
One interesting point to be noted here is, all the five ladies mentioned above, once our college beauties are now aunts… :)  All are married.. I just gave a though before joining the crew, “How am I going to bare these aunts, will it gonna be a boring trip???”… Ooops, I was utterly wrong…. They all have the same enthusiasm, same interest.. They all still value the friendship…!! The outing really rocked..!

Mr.Vinu had booked a Tavera. He was the first person to get in and started picking everyone at their doorsteps. Jaykanth had come to my house and we both got into the car together.. Thanu was the last one to get in. She had told us that she would wait near Lifestyle. As we reached the place we actually couldn’t find her there. I said, “Kulli astu easy aagi kaansodilla, hudukbeku…(She is so short that she won’t be visible so easily. Shud search for her…) ”….
Except Ragini, everyone else had confirmed previous day, their presence for the outing. But as we reached Kengeri, Ragini gave us a call and told that if we can wait for half an hour, she can also join us. We always wanted to increase the strength and agreed. So just thought of eating something whilst we wait for Ragini. We halted near a small hotel in front of RV Engg College, had some food and then went to Global village (Mphasis building where Ragini works). Here we met Swathi (our classmate who unfortunately couldn’t make it this time) as well. 
It was really nice to see all our classmates almost after 1 year. Nobody had changed except Jumbo, who had put on some more weight. Bruce Lee was just justifying her name :). She was still Bruce Lee….!!! Not many changes in people when looks are concerned.

On the way to our destination, it was so nice to recall all the funny and precious moments we have had during our college days. Stories about old crushes, Funny pranks on lecturers, bunking classes and subsequently getting caught, internal marks, external examiners what else and what not… We never realized that we had already reached our destination whilst we were busy discussing these stuffs. 

We reached INNOVATIVE FILM CITY at around 1 PM.

... Continued in PART 2

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

An outing to Kodachadri with friends....

Hey ppl,

This is the first time I've planned to write a blog and the motive behind this is my Kodachadri trip. I couldn't stop sharing with you people the awesome experience I had and I thot writing a blog is the best way... So here it goes....


On 6 Feb, 2010 we( Karthik, Harish, Rakesh, Vamshi, Raju and of course myself Venkat) planned to visit kodhachadri, located in Shimoga dist...
V decided Qualis as our mode of transport. I Started at 9 30 from my office (Keane) and reached Harish’s house at around 10 . We were supposed to leave at 10 30 But this idiot Karthik being punctually late for everything, was late that day as well...

So we somehow managed to leave at 11 55 PM. On the way to Tumkur just as we reached Yeshwantpur railway gate, there was a huge traffic jam. The reason being Railway crossing. But when we discovered that the traffic dint move even after 10 mins, we 3 got down to check what was wrong.

Here starts the comedy.. Mr.Rakesh( We call him Kaaki,meaning Crow in telugu) is a kind of person who is ready to become bakara by default and Vamshi is a kind of person who never misses an opportunity to make fun of kaaki.. Vamshi is a real humorous guy. Can make any person laugh in any situation. I admire his sense of humour. 

I , Harish and Vamshi came back after enquiring about the traffic jam and told kaaki that "Govt has advised railway dept to put humps(Like road humps) on the rails in few places and hence this goods train is taking so much time to pass thru humps …" LOL, Kaaki actually believed it and didn't respond for a minute and then realized the fact... We all roared with laughter….

Well our journey to kodhachadri continued then, as we reached Gubbi, near tumkur one of the car tyres got punctured. So our driver replaced it with the stepney and went to get the punctured one patched.

Since the last seats of qualis had a slight problem, Mr.Harish decided to use his talent to repair it. He was infact highly talented to break the legs of seat completely... :P Then we all used our hidden talents and gave the seat a support with 8 bricks which we stole from a building near by which was under construction. I’m sure the owner of building would’ve cursed us properly as there were just 10 bricks from where we stole 8 :P . By this time, our driver came back... 

Our rest of the journey was fun filled and all the time we were laughing ... Most of the times we used to make fun of kaaki. We reached Shimoga at 7 Am. Refreshed for sometime, reached nittur via Hosanagara and had our breakfast there. Finally reached our destination Kodachadri at around 10 30 AM . Our initial plan was to start trekking at around 11 AM.

Just at that time someone among us gave an idea that we shall get some food parcel while trekking. So we drove back 4 kms to Simha farms in search of food. We had to order for food and it would take 1 hour for preparation. In the meantime, the owner of that Simha farms was good enough to provide us the cricket ball and bat. 

We played for around 1 and hour and the food was ready. Then started eating. Hmmmmmm, the food there was sooooo yummy that we hogged almost everything as if we hadn't eaten for a week. Then our researcher Karthik went in search of tender coconuts and of course got them. Damn, the tender cocos were sooooo sweet...

Then Karthik told, "After having full meals and big tender coconut how can you ppl even think of trekking in the blazing sun, noooooooo, we will take rest for some time." We all being a group of lazy buggers agreed and took rest for more than an hour.


Finally our adventurous trek started at 4 PM with a guide ( Paandu, a real nice guy).

Actually there are 3 routes to reach the peak point,

1. Take Jeeps on the mud road which would cost 1000 per trip( To and fro).
2. Walk on the same jeep route, not a big deal.!
3. Get inside the forest thru edlumane falls and trek from there...

Yeah, we took the third one, the most adventurous one.

After walking on the road for 4 kms and trekking for 0.5 km, we reached Edlumane falls, a beautiful, serene falls amidst the dense forest... Couldn’t spend much time there as our guide paandu kept on reminding that we need to reach the mud road before it becomes dark. 
But we were really tired. So opened our parcel which we had got from Simha farms.. Again started eating... Then continued our journey... Believe me guys, this is a real challenge to trekthis way and of course an enjoyable one. At some point when we entered the forest , the huge trees covered us completely giving us a feeling that we were actually trekking in the night and when we came out of the cover we felt as if the sun has risen .... We experienced this day and night feeling almost 5 times during our trekking.  Everybody but Raju were tired trekking coz Raju is a guy with hardly any flesh in his body... He can easily climb Himalayas without even halting once.

With full josh, we reached the peak point. ... There is one house on the peak point called Bhattara mane. The people there will take care of providing food and shelter for us... Bhatta, the person iuncharge there asked us"Yen beku thinnokke"(What would you like to have).. We asked him "Yenenidhiyo, yella ondond plate tagond baa"(Get one plate each of everything you have :-)). This shows how hungry we were…

The shelter there was a tent, which of course is a different and lovely experience.... When we looked up in the sky, wowwwwwwww, we could see millions and millions of stars… The reason being we were above the clouds and the sky was totally clear. I really have no idea when I slept while I was watching the stars… 

Got up at 6, reached the peak point , the point from where the best view of sun rise can be captured.By the time we reached there , there were already many people sitting and waiting for the sun to rise. They all were sitting as if they were waiting for the most interesting cricket match to start. Well, we joined them too..

At 640 AM, a small red dot appeared in the clear sky.. Entire crowd started shouting... "Yeahhhhhhh surya banthu, surya banthu...." Yes this was the moment we were waiting for..!!! The red dot , the SUN , started rising slowly. At 6:59 AM, we could see the best view of completely risen sun.. It was all just a matter of 20 mins... wowwwwww, this was the most wonderful and best view of sun rise I had ever seen in my life.  

Captured enough fotos, posed many in front of the sun.... 

Later we got down in Jeep... Reached Sharavathi back waters which is around 20 kms from Mittur.. Here we took bath, swam , played for some time and then left to Sigandur Chowdeshwari temple...
It was 6 30 in the evening when we started back to Blore... 

Overall, it was a wonderful and unforgetteble experience.

Other details

Over all cost per head : 2K
Places covered : Edlumane falls, Kodachadri, Simha farms, Sharavathi back waters, Sigandur temple.
Overall distance covered: 1000 kms.

Cheers,
Venky