As decided on NIGHT 1, everyone got up early in the morning. We were to head for “One of the largest” waterfall in Asia…..JOG FALLS-70 kms from Gokarna. We 4 guys were ready in half an hour, as no one dared to bathe for long with cold tap water on a cold morning ;) I remember Suhas came out after bath and jumped into bed under the blanket shivering like anything. We literally got sure that he’d caught fever. But he was just over-reacting to the cold there.
All six people gathered in the lobby of the hotel with Sumo ready outside the door. There few guys wanted to have some TEA (They definitely had guts to have tea even after all the bad experience since the trip was started). Being smart, I opted out :D:D …. And as expected, they had another bad experience. Don’t worry guys; “Experience” does come with mistakes. HAHAHA!!
Only after getting into vehicle, we came to know that Gauri had poured that tasteless....umm…bad tasted….whatever….tea by a plant without getting caught by the servant, who’d prepared it after so many efforts at 6:30 in the morning. By efforts, I mean it. He really had to go out in search for sugar as it was not available in the kitchen. POOR SERVANT!!! And POOR PLANT!!! :-( :-( :-(
Hush!! So lets move to Jog falls now.
We reached at Jog falls around 10:15 AM. On the way, we had two halts. One for breakfast and one for some snaps by professional photographers (we had 6 professional photographers in our troop:D:D) at…I guess…back waters of Jog falls itself. Everyone jumped & rushed to see the waterfall as soon as we stepped out of the vehicle. But to our despair, this was the biggest & the only disappointment of the trip for us…….amongst the places we visited. There was hardly any water in the falls. Never mind, we compensated the loss by taking as many pictures as we could, at this place. (Definitely not as many at the Rajiv Gandhi National Park last year :P ) The funniest moments were ……………my “SOLO” photo…and… Suhas‘s “Big fall”. I will not go in those details here. As they are better told, and not written.
After relaxing for a while, we returned to the vehicle. There our driver told us that we could’ve walked down to under the waterfall. I said “Next time”.
While on the way back through the ghaat, the roads reminded us of the “Michael Schumacher” of Coorg. We were moving towards Murudeshwara, a holy place where we saw picturesque temples, with designs carved on the walls, a Gopura and a 15 storey Idol of The Lord Shiva. But before that we stuck to our mantra, as said, ” आधी पोटोबा , मग …” The hotel where we had lunch was located little inside from shore in the seawater. We had to order Thaali as they (too) refused to serve us anything else. The Thaali did taste good, given the ambience of water-clean to the base and looking out for the water-rides available at the beach. Later everyone settled for ice-cream. After lunch we moved towards temples. We had a view of the beach, the Idol of Shiva and the village around from the 18th floor of the Gopura. The huge Idol of Shiva is sitting on an artificial cave which gives us a trip to the mythological background of Gokarna with real-to-life idols of Ravana, Ganesha and Shiva. The sculptor is so perfect in honing those to reflect real life expressions out of them. While strolling through the cave one can also listen to the story being told on the speaker, which was obviously in Kannada. So we stayed with Gauri :-) :-). Good that she had done some homework on the history of Gokarna with her mom; it was easy for her to describe it to us while passing the sculptures.
Only after stepping out of the cave, we realized it was worth stepping in.
5PM
We were out of the temples and all set to get wet in the clean waters. There I rushed to have my first ever water-bike ride, which I enjoyed a lot. By the time I returned, all these guys had booked a motor-boat ride for the group. This was amazing than earlier ride. Even for Nachiket and Gauri, who can’t swim!! After the rides we stepped into waters and played till the sunset. We were hoping to witness the sun sinking into sea. But it chose to set in the clouds instead. We came out after spending enough time and got ready to return to the accommodation.
So the fun factor of Day 2 was 100%
Here I’ll skip the details of the dinner….good night (day 3 to follow)
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