mathe -head...n ran-forest...i guess thats how the name must have come....a little ahead of karjat u drive up a ghat only if u have a high power engine or take a toy train to get there....
we were a group of four may be three...our latest married duo nandy n amit...n chaya n mi ..the baccha party:)....
once u get up there u come across lots of fearless monkeys..lots of points...n muddy paths which seem to be a territory more for horses than human pedestrians like us....
we the animal lovers refused to ride the horses since we were worried about cruelty to animals n in the process were cruel to amit...who would almost gasp on reaching a point by foot....finally he revolted n we saw some points using uniocular telescope like lenses for 10rs per head:)
the heat squeezed out a lot of water evoking thirst every 10 mins...so no more points...there were 38 ,n we managed 3 as per our initial estimated target!
we were lucky to come across a dear sprinting across...n lots of birds...so overall quite some wildlife...at the charlotte lake we had golas...ganna juice...melons...berries...n lot of nimbu sharbat n chaas.......hmmm..all refreshing us to fight the heat....
it was tiring..walking so much...so i narrated vampire stories....love story of edward the vampire n bella the normal girl....that made the walk less tiring diverting our attention form heat...but chaya came up with some sad jokes n our feet were heavy again while amit gasped:)
the evening was a delight..there was a disco in the hotel we stayed on the 1st evening...but the 2nd evening was stupendously fantabulously fantastic...it was the puppet show... these artist do such a wonderful job yet live a tough life on the liitle bit they earn..he had lovely puppets with amazing shiny costumes...n the dance n snake show he perfomed made us applaud n bakshish him as a reward..!
we spent time on dicussing horror movies...novels...n as usual lot of stimulating medical diccussions..nandita being a surgeon cudn contribute much to peadiatrics..but she opened her mouth wherever she cud...funnily though:)
shopping was fun...fancy chappals..leather bags...chikki...maza aya.....
on our way back we visited a goshala...was a spiritual place...n we stopped our censored discussions which involved teasing the newly wed couple...
we prayed n were fortunate to get the aarti on time...it was some miracle place n peolpe had experiences to narrate...we tried to meditate...but none of cud with the hissing breeze that ran across the trees giving an illusion of someones presence just behind....giving a scary tingle along the spine....but it was a soothing experience.. n we all need spirituality after all....
as we drove we got back to singing our all time favourite item numbers...back to normal:)
it was an amazing trip...after all the planning n arguments rite from location... to mode of transport... to who are finally coming...?" to are we finally going:)??"
we were a group of four may be three...our latest married duo nandy n amit...n chaya n mi ..the baccha party:)....
once u get up there u come across lots of fearless monkeys..lots of points...n muddy paths which seem to be a territory more for horses than human pedestrians like us....
we the animal lovers refused to ride the horses since we were worried about cruelty to animals n in the process were cruel to amit...who would almost gasp on reaching a point by foot....finally he revolted n we saw some points using uniocular telescope like lenses for 10rs per head:)
the heat squeezed out a lot of water evoking thirst every 10 mins...so no more points...there were 38 ,n we managed 3 as per our initial estimated target!
we were lucky to come across a dear sprinting across...n lots of birds...so overall quite some wildlife...at the charlotte lake we had golas...ganna juice...melons...berries...n lot of nimbu sharbat n chaas.......hmmm..all refreshing us to fight the heat....
it was tiring..walking so much...so i narrated vampire stories....love story of edward the vampire n bella the normal girl....that made the walk less tiring diverting our attention form heat...but chaya came up with some sad jokes n our feet were heavy again while amit gasped:)
the evening was a delight..there was a disco in the hotel we stayed on the 1st evening...but the 2nd evening was stupendously fantabulously fantastic...it was the puppet show... these artist do such a wonderful job yet live a tough life on the liitle bit they earn..he had lovely puppets with amazing shiny costumes...n the dance n snake show he perfomed made us applaud n bakshish him as a reward..!
we spent time on dicussing horror movies...novels...n as usual lot of stimulating medical diccussions..nandita being a surgeon cudn contribute much to peadiatrics..but she opened her mouth wherever she cud...funnily though:)
shopping was fun...fancy chappals..leather bags...chikki...maza aya.....
on our way back we visited a goshala...was a spiritual place...n we stopped our censored discussions which involved teasing the newly wed couple...
we prayed n were fortunate to get the aarti on time...it was some miracle place n peolpe had experiences to narrate...we tried to meditate...but none of cud with the hissing breeze that ran across the trees giving an illusion of someones presence just behind....giving a scary tingle along the spine....but it was a soothing experience.. n we all need spirituality after all....
as we drove we got back to singing our all time favourite item numbers...back to normal:)
it was an amazing trip...after all the planning n arguments rite from location... to mode of transport... to who are finally coming...?" to are we finally going:)??"
