Jungle mount Adventure Camp Experience

Let me start this one with a question.
Who is the most beautiful woman on Earth?
Aishwarya Rai? Priyanka Chopra? Definitely not…

I was awe struck by the beauty of Mother Nature in the form of Kakkabe village near Coorg.
I have been to Coorg couple of times before but experience and enjoyment was definitely not on this scale.

As a part of the outbound program,our team of 7( me,rahul nair,rahul ,jayanth,snigdha,Krishna
and chintan) along with Konrad made a trip to Coorg. Fun started from the moment we boarded the cab to koyembedu with the initial culprits being snigdha and Krishna. I bet Krishna would never mess again with Snigdha again when she is on a call! By the time we fought for the songs to be played in the cab,we reached Koyembedu bus stand.

Many of you would have not noticed a big difference between Railways and Bus transportation.
Mostly trains start on time and reach late and it’s vice versa with Road transport system.The bus supposed to start at 10.30 after much deliberation started at 11.00. We all were set to sleep but there was something else in store for us from the conductor of the bus! He played a Kannada film! I don’t know the name of the movie and I don’t want to know. That was the worst of the dumbest films I have ever seen .Heroine sees and talks to herself in the mirror cut there was a song cut fight between the hero & heroine and the sequence repeated without the change in order. I take a bow to the director of the film for coming out with such a novel idea and film industry needs people like you(sarcasm and offences intended). To make us struggle more to sleep, a guy behind was snoring like hell. I wonder how Snigdha and Rahul managed to sleep and I wasn’t amused with Krishna sleeping as he was past his sleeping time already.

We reached Bangalore in the morning and I woke up to see everybody was sleeping as if they haven’t slept for years and I thanked God as that guy stopped snoring. After 2-3 hrs we reached Mysore and had a decent breakfast at a hotel. Let me be honest to tell you that the dosa’s made in Karnataka are lot better than the one made at TN. We took a tempo traveler from Mysore for Coorg and reached there after a scenic drive of another 3 hours to Jungle Mountain Adventures in Kakkabe!

We were all tired by the time we reached that place. We were welcomed by a energizer called Uncle Topaz(Wow!! what a man he is){to understand the meaning of the previous sentence ,you need to experience it} and his mates Ashley (who was physically similar to Ashley Cole) and Sagar (the king of Coorg). These 3 guys take care of the Jungle Mountain Adventure and trust me these guys are fun to be with. We retired to our huts, refreshed and went for rappelling near the water falls(pardon me I don’t remember the name of the falls). We spent around 3-4 hrs rappelling and then came back to the camp ,had dinner and had the discussion on “Tell me about yourself”. This was not a formal tell me about session and emotions were flowing through everybody’s adrenalines-That’s the point where I think the team of 7 that left Chennai came back as 1 family!

After the dinner and the session came the ride of my life. I never had or will have such an experience again. We went for a night safari (though we did not spot any animal). Sagar was riding his jeep at 11.00 pm without lights on a muddy and narrow mountain unfenced road which was far away from whats called as “being tarred” at almost 80 kmph with our heart coming to our mouth! YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO EXPERIENCE IT to FEEL IT. We came back from the safari after sometime we retired to sleep to wake up next day to see Lord Varuna crying to purify our earth.
We went for the kayaking in that heavy rain followed by lunch and a talk with Dr.Topaz which was really really inspiring. You have got to meet him to see how he gels with the young people like us even after him being 60 years old. He reads minds and hearts!

Every good things must come to an end and there came the time for us to depart from Kakkabe(really touched to see Uncle Topaz shedding tears). We started our journey back home and reached Bangalore by 10.30 pm. Snigdha took us to KFC (the last time I visited KFC was in Connought Place in New Delhi,if I remember right it was May 19 2008) and next morning we were back in Chennai back as normal homosapiens.

However best this trip can be put in words, you really need to experience it.

I became famous for the word “stupid fellow” which I use frequently with a unique tone and they were constantly pulling my leg over it, but never mind as a part of a family we are subjected to these kind of leg pullings. Not only this, we gave a nick name to every member of our family (me – venky, Rahul Nair – Dimples, Rahul – Ramu, Snigdha – Sniggy, Jayant – Dada and Chintan – Chintu). And we were back to our sweet home getting ready for the coming busy week. I was happy and the fitting finale was BE HAPPY NO B.P - BINDAAS--------------------------------------

Base by Venky :) &Spice up,Edit & Feel by Sniggy :)