Yes.....I did my most awaited trip last weekend.It was a great trip and we enjoyed it a lot.It was our P.G gettogether of around 11 people who are in different walks of life.We almost went back to the past and lived the life during 1993-1995.
Days - 15th august from bangalore
16th august stay at fishing hut
17th august back to bangalore.
vechile - Tata safari 2.2 vtt Lx -
My BULL - black colour
Total Km - 730 km
Fuel - Turbo JEt
F.E - 10.5 kmpl
Good - My Bull proved itself thats its best
Bad - There was a hissing noice while driving back - Ac Ideler bearing worn out,changed the same in bangalore in warranty,The stearing got jammed and became tight in Gudelpet junction...then through prerana contacted URS CAR,Mysore on sunday...drove slowly...since they could not attend to it immediately and said it can be driven slowly,drove it to bangalore.....here on monday at prerana they checked and found that the AIR DUMMY has fallen off in the power steering pump and it was replaced and my BULL is back in form.
MY TRIP:
We planned for our gettogether around 1st of august and we shortlisted some forest guest houses.The final list was:
1.Bangitaapal
2.Fishing Hut
Since bangitaapal guest house restroom was under renovation,We narrow down to Mukurthi fissing hut
Booking : My doctor friend at OOty was contacted and he is so close to me and agreed to help me.He checked with the forest DFO and confirmed the availability.
Place of booking : NILGIRI WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION,
C/O.District Forest Office(North) Mount Steward Hill,
OOty.
Place of stay : Maj.Richard Radclifffe Fishing Hut,
Parsons valley Range.
The hut was booked for 15 people for a day and we have to pay Rs.150/- perday.We got our booking confirmed and my friend called the care taker Mr.James and gave him the menu and money to buy the rawmaterials for the food.
So,all set for our trip.........
15th August - My wife had her plans for the day and i have to take care of my daughter.A friend of mine from Trichy came to Bangalore to join me for my trip.One more friend started from bangalore on his HONDA city at 12:30p.m and was proceeding to ooty. Finally,I set everything and we started from HSR layout At 2:15p.m
We took the kudulu road - AECS layout - Out through HOSA road and took NICE road at electronic city.....we reached mysore road within 40 minutes and we proceeded towards mysore.....we were in touch with my friend who was already on his way in his city.Some friends started from pondy....came to erode picked a friend and to sakthi picked a friend and were comming.....another 3 friends from pollachi/coimbatore reached ooty by then.We were discussing all those days......and enjoyed our drive....traffic was less,we crossed mysore and near coffee day at gudelpet met our friend who was going slowly after lunch.We all boarded My BUll and the city was following us.....
We entered Bandipur and saw some elephants/Bison/Monkeys/Deer.....But was able to catch the elephants only on lens.
we took the kallati ghats and finally reached ooty at 8:00p.m by then all my friends reached ooty.
We spent the night at a friends resort (Julia resorts).....and it was full of fun and we went to bed at 3:00 a.m
We got up at 6:00 a.m and got ready and had break fast at preethi palace.
friends in front of julia resorts:
We the friends:
We then started at 10:30 a.m made some purchases and started finally at 11:00 a.m. We took a jeep for rent too since we could not take the car's there and MY BULL too.
We passed through Parsons valley - avalanch - porthimund - Mukurthi - and the Fishing hut. we reached there at around 1: 30 p.m.
at ooty:
The route:
The slush......
The foxes and Sambar: