Coorg - contd

This is the continuation of the post on Coorg...

inside the meditation hall



Near the entrance



Younger monks in the prayer hall...



More of prayer



The Elder Monk



Their prayer was very nice... dint understand a word of it... but was very pleasing... their humming, the drums.... early in the morning...... Just gr8....

Just not able to restrict myself to stop posting photos from the monastry.... :)

By the way did i mention .... the cute little monks were staring at us... wondering y we were shouting[though we werent... but its so silent there...]

ok....After the wonderful monastry we had our breakfast... I was so hungry that i was ready to eat in any hotel nearby...

Then we went to Nisargadhama...it was full of trees. We felt we were in a jungle. A river rather a stream[there wasnt much water], where we played for a while, and finally the boating.

The stream in Nisargadhama



I think we spent nearly 2-3 hrs there, pulling each others legs....singing songs etc etc.
And ya there was an old swing there... It was very similar to the one in Vaastushaastra... It was very old. It made noise even at the slightest touch. Few people felt it was creepy.;)

Hey even saw these cute rabbits



After this we went to another place, dont remember the name now - but there we crossed a river, not on a boat, on foot. It was just gr8... There were tiny stones/rocks and the river had little water and we had loads and loads of fun :)

After crossing the river we went for a elephant ride. Felt very bad for the elephant, but i must admit we had a nice ride. All the while we were discussing "what if the elephant goes wild all of a sudden"...

After all this excitement had a nice lunch. Then we headed towards "Raja Seatt". The view from here is simply mind blowing...

View from Raja Seat



We went for a small trek... It was just for 15 mins but it was amazing... few of our team mates dint want to come .... So just 4 of us went and it was really good...

View from where we stood



After this was the last one of our list -- The Abbey falls.

The Abbey Falls


People have met with lot of accidents here. Before they used to allow people to go till the top of the falls, but now its banned. I dont think people are even allowed to enter the water here...

Another pic


But still u can see people going into the water...... :)

One more



We had a lot of adventure here... But we broke the rules, we decided to climb to the top. Later we got a nice bhashan from the policeman though, anyway then i decided never to break rules esp in places like that.

Now back to Adventure part of it... It was very steep in the beginning to climb this... but with help and determination we finally reached the top... infact we felt top of the world. And it really was.... coz we could see only water flowing down... trees around.

route - going down from the top



the above pic isnt steep at all...

But where it was really steep.... we dint take photos, as we were already getting late and we dint want to get stuck up there in the dark.... It was nearing 5.30 already:)

After we came down.... or i would say as we were coming down... we saw so many people staring at us. We were wondering y..... So many school kids esp.....

Then did we realize y people were staring at us.... We werent supposed to go on top, and we did... so the police there started questioning us... I was so scared.............. Not even a horror movie can scare me so much....

Then we told them we werent aware that we arent supposed to go on top... and that it was the first time... I was too scared even to talk... literaly on the verge of crying... I felt my heart had stopped beating....

But then we could tell the policeman that this was our ignorance and we would never repeat it[ well i have decided not to repeat it]... Oh man u should have seen the way they spoke to us... my heartbeat..... i thought everybody could hear.

As soon as they said go and dont repeat[no bribing involved here]..... we just went silently, climbed a few stairs towards the road... and when we knew we were out of sight of the police.... could we [esp me] breathe properly.... We drank 2 glasses of sugarcane juice - yummmmmmmmy..................
I was more stressed out because of the police incident than the trek...

Hey but the trek was really amazing............
[though i have been to treks other than these which are more tough and tedious]

Well finally all tired we squeezed ourselves into the sumo and started off around 6.30 or so... Played a little bit of Antakshari.... and yes not to forget a prank on one of our proj mates.....
We just scared one of our proj mates.... she used to scream on drop of a pin.... i mean a small lizard or a small insect.... or a chamaleon..... so one of our projmates told a horror story, which finally ended in a funny note, but scaring her.... i dont remember the story very well...

Anyways, after all fun n frolic, we shifted to soft songs.... slow songs..... and somewhere somtime i just fell asleep.... I could hear someone humming but then dint want to open my eyes.....
If it was some other time we would have played pranks if anyone was sleeping... but all of us were totally stressed out.... So just kept to ourselves....

We finally reached Mysore around 8.30.... then had dinner together... We dint have the energy even to eat.... we just wanted a bed to lie down.....

Somehow after all this reached home around 9.30 and then off to bed..............................................
Gr8 day came to an end :)

The next i opened my eyes were at 7.30 AM on thursday......... ooooooooohhhhhh i had to go to office...... wish we could get leave to rest..............