Couple of weeks back, me along with my iiitb buddies planned for an outing. We planned to go to Shiva Samudram, Muthang forest. We stared on our Independence Day.. .i.e August 15th morning. We reached Shiva samudram at around 11.30 AM. The water levels were high. The driver of our cab informed us that this time the water levels have risen. The waterfalls was great. It was a feast for our eyes. It is must for everyone. It was cloudy and we could not ask for more. We enjoyed the waterfalls and the weather. We took the steps and got little closer to the waterfalls. I cannot express the feeling in words. It was amazing.
Then we stared to Chamundi hills, Mysore. This was my second trip to mysore and to Chamundi hills. Last time I was here Chamundi hills was Dec, 1999. That time I was studying my 9th. After a very long time I had been here. We had our lunch at pizza corner.Then we stared to Mutang, the place were we planned to stay in the night. One of my friends booked a tree house for us.That night we stayed in the tree house. The way to mutang is great. We have to travel thru the dense forests. You would be covered trees. If you are lucky then you could come across some wild animals. The next day we went for a safari. We saw elephants, Malarbar squirrel and some deers. We just managed to see the paws of the tiger. May be we would have seen a tiger if we went for a safari in the morning. The driver of the jeep told us the he came across the tiger in the morning. Anyways we were happy that atleast we got to see some wild animals.
Next we started to Eddakal, to see the eddakal caves. The drive to eddakal is fantastic. You would be seeing a lot of greenery, you would be driving thru dense forests. We reached eddakal at around 12.30PM. We started climbing the hill and finally made it to the top of the hill. The climb to the top to see the claves is not so easy. It is very difficult and to add to our woves it started raining. So it became slippery. Carefully we made it to the top. The view from the top is fantastic. One should be there and experience it, I cannot put it in words. Inside the caves you would find the inscriptions of the tribals , who lived at around 4000B.C. For more details about the claves visit: Edakkal Caves.
Then we started to Bandipur National park. On the way we had a close encounter with an elephant. We noticed that a vehicle was parked just next to the National high way. So the driver slowed the cab to see if there was any wild animal near by. And we happened to seen an elephant, along with a baby elephant. So, we started clicking some photos of the elephant from the cab. But the man from the car got down and got a little close to the elephant, around 50 mt and as soon as he clicked the photos the elephant turned wild and stared running towards him and raised its trunk and a leg on the person. The person backed off at the last min. Suddenly the elephant turned wild. Fortunately, for the man the elephant did not come chasing after him. This was the first time we happened to seen an elephant from so close.
Then we started to Bandipur National park and planned to go for a safari in the evening. We stopped for the lunch at around 5 Pm. As we could not find any good restaurant on the way it took us so long to have our lunch. At the counter of the shop we just enquired if we can go to safari in the evening. To our disappointment, the person at the bill counter replied that the last trip for safari would end at 4.30PM. This brought disappointment to all of us. Myself and Ravindra wanted all of us to stay that night at Bandipur resort and had plans to go to Safari the next day. However, some of my friends wanted to go back to Bangalore because we never knew if we can see animals the next day. There was some confusion whether to stay or not that day at Bandipur or start the return journey. In that confusion, all of us agreed to go to Bandipur and then decide whether to stay there or not depending upon the availability of rooms. So we started to bandipur after our lunch. In about 15 mins we reached Bandipur. We happend to see large number of deers. We checked with the forest department for the availability of the rooms. We came to know that all the rooms were booked and they informed us to check with the resorts. We checked with couple of other resorts and the bad news was that all rooms were booked till sunday. Already some of our friends wanted to make the return journey. As we could not find the rooms, we obviously had to make the return journey. In the middle of the journey we had two punctures. We were fortunate enough that the driver had two spare tires. This proved useful. We made it to Bangalore at around 12.30AM.
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