I faced handfull of punches in every tour,but in this tour I faced one
beautiful punch at the beginning of the tour.I booked Train tickets from kazipet to bhadrachalam.Machilipatnam express arrives at kazipet around 00:40 .My friends reception is on October 30,2009.Our plan was to jump into that train so that we can have a sleep in that train.For that I booked tickets on 30th October 00:40 and I told my friends that all tickets were confirmed no need to worry.One of the intelligent friends in my batch found that I booked
on 30th night not 31st night.First punch dangerous punch.To be frank,some of my friends did not understand what was happening and why this fellows are shouting.So we planned to reach Bhadrachalam by bus.After having a nice dinner there at reception,we started to Hanamkonda Bus station to catch Bhadrachalam bus.The bus came at 11 PM and we enjoyed some filmi jokes in that bus.We reached bhadrachalam around 4 AM.
We booked a TATA Magic so that we all 13 members can be in a single vehicle and moreover we can cover all 4 directions.We took bath in that beautiful Godavari around 6 AM.It was a nice entertainment session for all of us as we all travelled a lot in that bus.We had some snaps there at Godavari and started to Darshanam as we have to catch the boat around 9AM.We had a good darshanam there.We came out of the temple around 7:30 AM.We started to Sri Ramagiri ( the place where the boat starts to Paapikondalu).SriRamagiri was around 60 Kms away from bhadrachalam.One of my friends took initiative and collected all the money.We had a huge breakfast on the way to SriRamagiri.As the boat driver was irritating us with
his calls,we travelled the rest in full speed.We reached the spot at 10 AM.The boat started immediately as we entered in to that boat.We had a look at the passenger faces as they all were waiting for us.But nothing happened and nobody showed their anger as we were 13 members and each member is heavily built. :)
As the boat started,they gave us breakfast.I was shocked to see the quantity they gave.It was so less and trust me that breakfast will not be sufficient for a new born baby too.We all were happy as we had a huge breakfast.After breakfast,they served us tea.Sorry it was hot sweet water which was in tea like color.Without wasting any moment we started clicking our cameras without leaving any scenic beauty.We covered almost all the greenery around Godavari.We dipped our foot into the water and enjoyed about 2 kms of boat ride.It was
also a nice experience.Once our boat strucked in the middle of the river as there was sand in the middle of the river but the boat crew solved it very easily.Like this our boat journey continued with some cool jokes and hot sun.We had some entertaining stuff with a person who is narrating history about Paapikondalu.We made some fun with him.After continous travel,we had a halt
at perantalapalle.There we visited a temple and took some photographs beside a waterfall.We explored a lot in perantalapalle and bought some flowers there.We sat at a cool place and shared some lighter moments.We had lunch at a place near perantalapalle.The lunch was good but not great.In the next scene,we were in the boat taking each and every beauty of Paapikondalu as the boat was travelling through that hills.It was a big treat to our eyes.We travelled about 2 kms from that place and explored the beauty of Paapikondalu.We are a bit lucky as we saw a malayam movie shooting spot in that paapikondalu.The boat driver halted at a place ( Kollur ) and informed us to get down as we planned for a night stay.We landed there at around 2:30 PM.
The reception there at Kollur was great.They served us with Tea and Pakoda but we refused as we are feeling sleepy and told them to bring after 5PM.As soon as we get into that cottages,we went it our beds.We all gotup around 5PM and ordered snacks.Our cottages are on top of a hill ( about 500 mts distance from bank of Godavari).We went down to enjoy that evening.While going down we ordered some stuff for boozing.We played some skill games.One
of my friends pant got damaged as he attempted to jump over my friend.We played on the banks on the Godavari for about 2 hours.It was one of the finest seconds in my life.Jolly 120 minutes.Really we all enjoyed each and every millisecond in that period.Around 7PM,Bobby( resort boy ) came to us and told that everything is ready.Then we told him to lit camp fire and
arrange 10 chairs and a table near to the bank of Godavari.He arranged it in minutes.We arranged everything on the table and started the actual episode here.We ahd bought 8 quarter bottles of Whisky and 5 bottles of Sprite ( for the guys like me :)).Again 2 hours of joy.Godavari River aside,full moon day the cold air completely surrounded and a camp fire at one end,it's a
wonderful experience.We shared some lighter moments there and completed all the bottles and the stuff.With that excitement to not let our body down,we danced to the tones of Theen maar and fastbeats.One of my friends fell down while dancing but it did not hurt him as he is in drunken mood.He kicked his close friend with full force(I dunno the reason ).Then we started to our cottages and the dinner is ready.We had a nice dinner(fish fry and chicken curry).I had no sleep since 2 days before this tour so I went to bed as soon as I had dinner.While I was in deep sleep,our friends started to shout to show others that they all were drunken.They had a very hot discussion and they tried to wake me up but I was not in this world.Am in sleeping world.It went for about 1 hour but I missed it :(.
Me,srinivas and pradeep woke up early in the morning and started to explore the Godavari bank early in the morning to not miss sunrise.we explored there about 1 hour and came to our cottages.We heard many noises from the forest in that morning.Around 8AM ,breakfast was served.We had it and started to explore the forest area.Resort boy has said that there was a waterfall nearby.SO we planned to take bath in that waterfall.We started at
around 8:30 Am.The scenic beauty on the way to waterfall was awesome.The green bushes and the fog/dew on flowers was so colorful.We continue exploring the forest with a stick in a hand ( for safety :) ).We travelled like this about 3 kms.Two of my friends got tired and said that they will take bath in a near by lake.Remaining 8 gutsy guys never gave up and started again to find
waterfalls.After 5 kms we found a small waterfall.It was also a real scenic beauty.We had a nice bath there and started back to cottage.On the way back to cottage,we shouted at a place where two my friends gave up.There was no response.We came to cottages around 11AM.Two of my friends who gave up did not come to the cottages.We waited in the cottages till 11:30 AM and started again to forest shouting "Pradeep ... Venkatesh".We were so afraid and searched each and every feet of forest.Finally we found them in a near by lake.We were so relaxed on seeing them.We came back to cottages around 12 PM and had a nice lunc ( chicken fry and fish curry ).
We had to pack our luggages for our return journey to bhadrachalam.We went to the bank of the river around 2 PM.We entered into boat around 2:30 Pm and reached SriRamagiri around 5:30PM.Our TATA Magic was waiting for us near sriramagiri.TATA Magic has dropped us in Bhadrachalam around 7PM.We reached Kothagudem to catch LINK Express around 9PM.We reached Hyderabad around 4:30 AM.I know that you all are waiting for the NAVARASALU.See below :)
Navarasalu
KarunaRasam - Sampath carrying badri in the Paamuleru Waterfalls
RoudraRasam - Satyanarayana emotical speech on Boozing
VeeraRasam - Gaddam fighting against its enemy through out the night.
BayanakaRasamu - Pradeep and Venkatesh missing in the forest
BiiBatsarasamu - Exploring through the Forest
AdbutaRasamu - Navigating through Paapikondalu
Samtarasamu - Boozing with friends on a full moon day besides Godavari
SrumgaraRasamu - The last moments at Kolluru Village.Only the tour guys knew it ;)
HasyaRasamu - Dancing/Playing skill games in the evening.Indeed rest of the tour.
Photos are shared at
http://picasaweb.google.com/gorantala.srikanth/Bhadrachalam#
http://picasaweb.google.com/vijay.gandla/KrantiRec#
http://picasaweb.google.com/boyapati.sandeep/BhadrachalamGodavariTrip?eat=email#
