Ceci est ma Vie

this past saturday was just awesome...all of us got a welcome break from the daily hectic schedules as we went for a trek in the western ghats at a place in lonavla...

This name of this place, when translated , mean "black stone" and it was not difficult to see why. ..as the buses loaded with the kindergarten enthu students..i cud see the vast lushgraan patches of land marked by black boulders all over....it was an amazing site..

guiding us on the trek was a team of professional mountaineers led by one gentleman who, in his army days, has conquered the everest...although we knew that we are in safe hands, we soon realised how difficult and exciting a trek can be....

matters were made more interesting as it rained throughout the day and we walked,climbed and absailed the whole day soaked in rain....the trek had extremes of easy patches of land to really dangerous parts where one got really scared at times...

we trekked for almost two and a half hours to reach the cave under the 700 feet waterfall where we were given our lunch..plain chappati and aloo subji...and believe me...it was up there with one of the tastiest lunches I have ever had...

thr trek back somehow seemed to take longer....we, a bunch of 4 enthu ppl, took the lead and had the adventure of charting the way back with the help of the stonesigns that the guides had put up while we were going towards the waterfall....

the day left us totally drenched, very tired but with the sense of having a great day..

back to the hostel ...took a hot water bath...had chinese in the nearby retaurant and slept...fortunately we got sunday off....