Two day trip to Masina gudi and Ooty

We Needed a much break from all of our work and we realize that there are things we not always do much about is traveling and enjoy the nature. We planned initially for 3 days to kodachadri. But due to reasons we had got only two days to go out. Well this opportunity to set out from home literally wanted to enjoy with nature and to be adventurous.

Masinagudi:

Never heard of this place ever before and had all doubts in mind to be adventurous but with folded hands i accepted to travel by force. Not knowing on going to an exotic locale.All decided to travel on my eye catching car Swift with other three crazy people. Though i was only driver for whole trip i started to pick each of them from different location.Atlast we hit the road to masinagudi at 6:00PM. No Question about the pleasure of driving,comfort,non-traffic in mysore road till enter to mysore city and off course with my car.
We had lot of pit stops between hence took longer time to reach destination. We reached mysore at 9:00PM. After Mysore, on route we are dependent on my friend Mr.Rohit to be navigator but i believe, is his tendency of keeping road map is horrible and took more time by the time we found actual route to gundalpet from Mysore.(Thanks Rohit for all help..embarrass that you born and bought up in mysore). Lets have his pic on what Mr.Rohit was actually doing during trip...


Journey:
Of the gundalpet, the journey was fantastic in night on the foothills and passing by bandipur wildlife pristine forest.Wasn't lucky enough to face some wild animal on the way.Off course, lucky to caught glimpses of deer, monkeys,bison (others are in my car)..etc. It was night safari time and everyone in Jeeps going for safari were looking at us.

Accommodation:

We had booked for accommodation in Green Park resort, the place that treated guest with royalty. The food was simply good and very courage to our assistance anytime. Manager was planned for next day adventurous.As a package we had night safari too.



Trekking:

Getting up early with great difficulty, started to trek early 6'in the morning.Trekking between non-monsoon and non-summer is different experience all together.Actually it was much more exciting than what i actually thought it would be. It is fall season now and a walk along the tree clad mountains amidst the diversity in the color of flora is simply exhilarating considering that the temperature was not supported for trekking. But it was some pleasure to walk around dense forest. During trekking, we discovered so many beautiful scenery which we never imagined and had horrible time with forest bee too. Bee bite all of us and to escape we had to fight for it. though it was a good experience.Got snaps in unwanted and unnecessary places and our Mr.Thure as usual has taken with weird pose. Following trekking came back to resort had good breakfast and relaxed for half an hour, later had an exciting falls, which is 10kms away from resort. This fall was an breathe taking place and journey to reach the water,this is perfect for those who find themselves unsatisfied with safari. We all got back to resort by evening 5:00PM had some rest. We decided to cancel the night safari which is part of package and thought to drive in late night in car. At 7:00PM there was camp fire arranged from Resort people for us, The campfire is wondrous time to sing and dance instead parking the car near to campfire played favourite songs with full volume. This was attracted to all staff of resorts and joined to enjoy the music with us.Had a great time dancing and partying till midnight.Now we thought to go night safari, this was pleasure driving in pristine forest and again wasn't lucky to face any wild animals.
Thure with weird pose..




OOTY:

Next morning, unexpected reasons raised to go ooty. here rain was playing hide and seek, we thought this is right time to visit ooty. Started clearing the bills at 10AM and left resort around 10:30AM heading towards ooty which is 23kms away. Most enjoying driving was hairpins bends (Around 36 of them) before we reach ooty and in between enjoyed lot of photo session with good scenary backgrounds. The weather in ooty was unbelievable, very cold and should running temp at 5degree. I wanted to go for boat riding, took four seated boat. This was not a great experience has expected.Ok.Ok.type. Finally, decided to get back to bangalore and took the other route to cover all the familiar place in ooty like pykara lake, shooting spots, Nilgiris.etc..The road we found to return was a pathetic.


Drive down hitting 130km/hr after bandipur...chasing, overtaking all the cars in single strecth, stopped near maddur in coffe day and spent an hour. atlast reached bangalore at 10:PM sunday.

overall this was an great experience, great fun and always nice to be friends.it was good break from all tension and fun with friends to drive. This was just an summary of trip.we shall post more on our trip in details next...