The place totally detoxifies you. Uncountable celestial body visible to the naked eye. The passing clouds sometimes covering the fully illuminated Moon visible from the Earth and making the night more pleasurable.
An effort of half an hour finally got connected to Nitin (person who runs the home stay). A request to call back if there is some availability, worked out. A call back from Nitin changed the destination Madkeri to Irpu.
Basi, Prasad, Vinay and me on Basi's Swift left for Irpu– a distance of almost 120Kms from Mysore.
The first pit stop got us some Beer tins and breezers and the destination to Irpu got on.
The drive and the weather were pleasant with Prasad playing the DJ part with his selection of songs, rolled us to Irpu at around 8 PM. The cottage was awaiting us.
The best part of the trip was a short night drive from the cottage at 12. The drive got us to a nice place to park. Sitting on the middle of the road, watching the sky and passing time. It’s something which I really can’t.......................
Morning gave me a good chance to do some Macro photography of different type’s flowers. The breakfast gave us some energy to head on to the falls.
It was really unpleasant to see people throwing plastic covers, empty bottles, glasses and beer tins around the place. It was rather disappointing to see collection of 10 rs by the forest department from each person for an un-maintained place. A group of mid aged ass's with pot shaped fallen tummies, scrubbing there body with soap dirtying the place not letting the others to feel the experience of standing under a water falls.
If there is something that really needs to be looked up is enjoying the place and those little times that you spend over there, apart from spoiling the place.
Extending the trip for one more day statement came as a surprise. There was a sudden smile in everyone's faces, also a bit of hesitant inside the mind. Basi, Vinay and me gave our thumbs up. But Prasad made us realized that nothings’ gonna change by staying another day and we totally doesn't belong to this place. We are like those machines that have been back on work the next day.
Now travel back from Mysore to Bangalore after an excellent trip was very hard to digest. As the bus entered the suburbs, momentum of the bus reduced with more pit stops than the movement- nothing but traffic jams. Wish I could have climbed on top of the bus and shouted the famous lines of the movie "Gladiator" - "Are you not entertained (With these traffic jams)? Is this what you are here for (In this city)? None of them would have even heard it, if I had attempted it.
