Travelogue - Pannis2Nanni
Nandi Hills - A scenic place at the outskirts of Bangalore.
The trip was made one fine weekend in early December, 2004
Here is the travelogue..
It was an allSHIT Day for Rat - only literally.
Anywhere and everywhere we went, if there is shit
of any categories, he would step on it. His Times
of India .. what else should I say ?!!
The trip started off at 6.30 AM.
In two vehicles - Kiron's Bolero and Sand's Indica.
As usual, Jins and Aneesh were kept waiting for
quite a while. And finally when the pickup
vehicle came, there was a shower of 'Sanskrit'..
And again as usual, Dipu started crying for
"Chaaya"
To avoid confusion in Jins' mind, there was an
announcement every 10 mins - "We are going to
Nandi Hills" :D
Reached Nandi at 10.30. Its just 60 km from the
city. A high altitude place (more than 1.5Km
above sea level). Very cold. Not much of manly
disturbance to the huge number of our ancestors
there..
The sight atop the hill was amazing. You could
see 'horizon' in all its beauty - the sky and the
land meeting at a straight line; the top of the
line being blue and the bottom brown.
Sat on rocks gazing this for half an hour. Then
left out for more exploration deep inside.
The absence of a camera was irritating.
We had a camera with us, in fact, but no battery.
The battery, bought at Nandi wont just work !
Our official photographer Dipu had left his
camera in the safe co-ordinates of his office.
Stupid idiot !
All he was interested in was Guava.
AJ aka aanatham, as usual stepped in, and
accomplished a lot of goals - of the usual type
;D
Jins was at his playful best.
Noting that the monkeys are looking out for
snacks, he loaded the 'little hearts' pkt with
small stones and gave it to a monkey.
The veteran monkey filtered out the stones and
tasted the pieces of bsct that were left out.
Roaming around the hill for about 1.5hrs, we
started our trip back.
It was Kiron-Jins team's Bday treat.
At Sue's A-La-Carte (whatever that means)
It is a Carribean restaurant - Buffette.
Made merry there - full of noise. The other
fellow-eaters who are supposed to be "high
profile society ppl" couldnt help givin us a
stare. Who cares ? :-)
When the dishes were almost cleaned up, we
decided to call it a day. Jins wont ! He went on
to take multiple trips of the dessert. The name
of the pudding, btw, is Mariya Mol. This was
being discussed between the old lady (who seemed
to be the owner of the hotel) and some other
guests. Geo over heard this and went to the lady
"Is your name Mariya Mol". She burst into
laughter and corrected. "No dear, its the name of
the dish".
All of us loaded our tummies with delicacies like
chicken, fish cutlet, crab, pulav (very little of
this) and dessert.
Back home at 3PM.
Switched to hibernation mode. Till 6.15PM.
Slept like a dog !
Went to 4M in the eve - Rat, Lee and Dipu.
Saw off lee at 12.15 AM.
End of the Day.
Rat
The Cast :
1. Rat
2. Arun George
3. Sandeep
4. Kiron
5. Dipu
6. Lee
7. Aneesh
8. Jins
The trip was made one fine weekend in early December, 2004
Here is the travelogue..
It was an allSHIT Day for Rat - only literally.
Anywhere and everywhere we went, if there is shit
of any categories, he would step on it. His Times
of India .. what else should I say ?!!
The trip started off at 6.30 AM.
In two vehicles - Kiron's Bolero and Sand's Indica.
As usual, Jins and Aneesh were kept waiting for
quite a while. And finally when the pickup
vehicle came, there was a shower of 'Sanskrit'..
And again as usual, Dipu started crying for
"Chaaya"
To avoid confusion in Jins' mind, there was an
announcement every 10 mins - "We are going to
Nandi Hills" :D
Reached Nandi at 10.30. Its just 60 km from the
city. A high altitude place (more than 1.5Km
above sea level). Very cold. Not much of manly
disturbance to the huge number of our ancestors
there..
The sight atop the hill was amazing. You could
see 'horizon' in all its beauty - the sky and the
land meeting at a straight line; the top of the
line being blue and the bottom brown.
Sat on rocks gazing this for half an hour. Then
left out for more exploration deep inside.
The absence of a camera was irritating.
We had a camera with us, in fact, but no battery.
The battery, bought at Nandi wont just work !
Our official photographer Dipu had left his
camera in the safe co-ordinates of his office.
Stupid idiot !
All he was interested in was Guava.
AJ aka aanatham, as usual stepped in, and
accomplished a lot of goals - of the usual type
;D
Jins was at his playful best.
Noting that the monkeys are looking out for
snacks, he loaded the 'little hearts' pkt with
small stones and gave it to a monkey.
The veteran monkey filtered out the stones and
tasted the pieces of bsct that were left out.
Roaming around the hill for about 1.5hrs, we
started our trip back.
It was Kiron-Jins team's Bday treat.
At Sue's A-La-Carte (whatever that means)
It is a Carribean restaurant - Buffette.
Made merry there - full of noise. The other
fellow-eaters who are supposed to be "high
profile society ppl" couldnt help givin us a
stare. Who cares ? :-)
When the dishes were almost cleaned up, we
decided to call it a day. Jins wont ! He went on
to take multiple trips of the dessert. The name
of the pudding, btw, is Mariya Mol. This was
being discussed between the old lady (who seemed
to be the owner of the hotel) and some other
guests. Geo over heard this and went to the lady
"Is your name Mariya Mol". She burst into
laughter and corrected. "No dear, its the name of
the dish".
All of us loaded our tummies with delicacies like
chicken, fish cutlet, crab, pulav (very little of
this) and dessert.
Back home at 3PM.
Switched to hibernation mode. Till 6.15PM.
Slept like a dog !
Went to 4M in the eve - Rat, Lee and Dipu.
Saw off lee at 12.15 AM.
End of the Day.
Rat
The Cast :
1. Rat
2. Arun George
3. Sandeep
4. Kiron
5. Dipu
6. Lee
7. Aneesh
8. Jins
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