Rendezvous With Nature..

The famous sunday trip was planned today...we decided to go to melkotai....had been to this place a long time ago...and i wanted to go there....and also know why mani 'sir' has got such a predeliction to this place....

The Trip!!!
We started around 9:30....two cars for 6 people..bad idea...fun and comfortable at first ...but about the economics...it was a real crap idea...no more abt it !!....anyway enetered mysore road..at 10:00 ... broke our fast at lokaruchi (ok restaurant..but the only decent place int that road!!!..)....and then took a right from mandya circle towards melkotai...(36k frm there!!!)...and then it started...The weather was just too good...cloudy ..not so gloomy...cool and breezy ,almost windy....the route was completely desserted...just wheatgrass on the road..cows and a water stream (personally thank god for all this...esp the desserted part!!!)...just the odd vehicle...we wanted to stop everywhere and take photos.. :) ... we reached by 12:15...
Confusion galore...we missed nandan's car (very easy to....just blink ur eyes!!)...and they went to some temple..and we went to some temple...we had the darshan...nice temple(its in the city and not on the hill..).....and then nandan on his 'searchin for us' endeavor...found us...!! and finally we ended up scolding him telling him that this was the main temple... :) ... and then went to the 'main' temple (on the hill)..parked with difficulty...(yes!!! yes!! ...parking problems!!!...)...climbed some real steep(read cruel) steps...and then enetred the temple...nothing like the other temple..it had some sheets in the rock...kinda diff...and then just went exploring the place ..and then found a dude near the entrance to the cave...

Cave..
I am claustrophobic...but that did not deter me from going inside the cave...it was fun at frst ...dark and trying to grope around..hoping to find someone...u know filmi style... :)....anyway it was ok....and then it started getting narower...narrower!!....i am not thin..but i am not fat...so u know narrower directly translates to trouble..anyway crossed that hurdle with some difficulty...(from my friends that is...)...and then immd what do we find???...and even narrower passage... .. paranoia sets in... with lot of self assurane that i wont die of choking in a room filled with friends who make obscene jokes at u .. i cross that as well...u have to real flat to cross that...and move like a slug...and then the ordeal was over...phew...

Pillars.
This place is very famous ...it comes in many movies..dalapathi..lot of scenes and rakamma song....padiyappa...the famous theerpu place...it comes in other movies as well...its actually a nothing place...just 4 pillars coming out of nowhere..going nowhere......but still...its got some kind of atttraction to it...and then we climb to the top of it...and then boy...the wind...it just blew us away...literally....i was struggling to keep my feet....and after all the photos..we left..not b4 mom nature gives us somethin to remember the place...a drizzle ..more like a water spray out of barbers water bottle....
The concept of a cloudy..windy...cool day with a tryst of that spary..just was too too good to digest...


the nuetralizer...
If u ever plan a gr8 trip to somewhere...and want to actually come back...make sure u dont hit mysore-magadir oad in bangalore at any time b/w 4-9 pm..its awful..and can have detrimental effects on ur sanity....

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