Rottikallu

Date  : Nov 13 - 14th
Place : RottiKallu
Members : Bhavana, Devdas, Harsha, Jyothi, Manoj, Pavan, Radhika, Sahana, Sneha, Suhas, Sulakshana, Suma

experience : Out Of The World !!!

Finally the rottikallu plan was executed after postponing the dates three times starting from Aug 15 to Oct 2 to Oct 30 and finally to nov 13th. So definitely the most awaited day...

       

        The Day started off at 1:30am on Nov 13th. To my surprise the whole team of 12 agreed to kick off at that mid-night. We had five pick up points which collected all of us from different points and by 3:30 all 12 in the bus few dozing off and few introducing to each other and others started off with mumbai memories. None among us knew all the rest in the group so initially(while planning) I was lil concerned about the team building efforts that V thought v needed to put in... But the scene changed completely as soon as the team started playing UNO and Rammi in the bus.

        We planned to visit Manjrabad fort before checking into resort hence started off early and as planned we were in the fort by 10:45am. Around 200-250 steps as informed by the driver to reach the top and you are greeted with the best view of sakleshpur town. Sorrounded by hills and the sight of cattle grazing on the far off hills was a delight to watch... This fort brought the memories of Murud fort which we visited on jan15th in mumbai. By this time the team was in full swing to gear up with the activities that awaited us in rottikallu.

With lil difficulty in locating the resort we finally made it to the resort by 1pm with rats running in our stomach. We were escorted to our rooms. A big cottage for girls and a small one for boys. The rooms are very clean of course we made our best effort to make it dirty by the end of our stay. The lunch was ready and we had the best malnad cuisine with few non-vegetarians among us had a yummy fish fry.

We wasted no time and threw ourselves into the hard core fun starting with simple rope walk, swing, tarzan jump, lazy pool with snake around to thrill us. Few got scared of them and few others freaked 'em back. According to su and manoj this was their best experience in the whole trip. We enjoyed several rounds of throwing ourselves into water n making others fall too... The videos taken here are plenty displaying various reactions and wierd sounds being made trying to beat tarzan ....

"Kesaru gadde Volleyball" was my personal favorite. Few showed their real strength in serving the ball far off the fields and manoj made all efforts to fall into the kesaru and reminded/realised himself that it is really a kesaru gadde. Harsha too made an effort to carry this memory by hurting himself. We took break for tea and coffee. We played throwball on demand, as there were few throwball champions among us. We had to make many strategies to win/loose the game. We all appreciated each others competitive spirit and congratulated on winning n losing each point. Me, su, deva and manoj also enjoyed running a race in adjacent kesaru gadde...Few of us went back to fall into the stream to wash ourselves and had small fun there too.

Close to dusk all of us took a hot water bath. Last ones in the queue had to manage with warm and cold water. The water is extremely sweet and girls expressed their happiness for having a soft n shining hair after the bath. With the minimum light we managed to play shuttle/badminton for a short while and quickly parked ourselves around a small camp fire.

For a small time we sang songs while we waited for the snacks to arrive at our tables. By the time snacks were on tables we were terribly hungry and waited for dinner. Naturally the snacks on the tables vanished in no time and many tried their first wine n vodka shots. Dinner was wholesome and few still had the energy to ponder on the puzzles given by Mr Vijay, the founder of Rottikallu. We discussed about the day 2 plans and decided to get ready for a short trek at 7am. I Catched sleep immediately but was made to get up again to dance around the lantern in our rooms!! I thought the girls have gone crazy and wen back to sleep.

A tight sleep with a lil excercise the last evening had removed all the pain in my legs. All of us were fit n fine pulled our socks, had sip of tea and started the first trek by 7:30 to a close hill right behind our cottage. Lead by Vijay and blacky, we reached the top in a hurry to get better signals and made calls to our "Loooved ones!!!".... Way back Vijay gave me lot of inputs about himalayan trek which he had been in the past. The trek was easy n small during which suhas gave lessons about Macro mode on our digital camera which made people like su to take pics of almost everything whihc came in her way... But I a must say that few of the shoots are brilliant...  

Lil was the hunger, so was a small breakfast to give enough energy to trek a 8-10km long trek to Hallu Kola(if I not wrong). This time lead by Ravi alias Ravanna. This was THE TREK!!! And it was the first time I ever saw a leech. At the end the count of 15 leeches on my shoe all caught my sight and never let them suck my blood. Jo, Suma, Bhavana, Radhika had not one but many bites from those tiny creatures. Initially people danced when leeches crawled on their legs, very soon it became a casual task to remove n throw 'em away. We choose a longer route in order to trek amidst the thick forest and enjoyed it the most. Top view a awesome sight and many of us laid down under the open sky for a while to watch no buildings or poles around but only the endless sky... Of course the photo shoots never stopped but improved with time and places. Enroute we visited a small water fall which was a perfect body massage. Manoj all excited washed himself n his HTC in this falls. Suhas had a long n loud laugh when he held his body under the falls. Deva, Jo, Bhavana n lastly sneha enjoyed their turns to get massaged...

We reached the base camp by 1pm very hungry but the food was not ordered. Hence we decided to carry on hungrily till sakleshpur n find a hotel. Clock ticked 2pm when all were ready to move and by then we were told that a simple lunch was arranged for us in rottikallu itself for free of cost. Without second thought we pulled chairs around the dinning table.

Did our final settlement of money and we said ta ta to RottiKallu. The fun was'nt over yet. Our DJ Pavan had best collections which kept us occupied n it was UNO again. I could understand thy had the best timepass playing UNO and enjoyed it so much. Manoj was in a hurry to have Coffee and we stopped couple of times. ha ha ... :D We later stopped for actual coffee and Masal puri. UNO was on, even when having chats... Mean while Our Tom & Jerry were there to entertain everybody around. Tom being Pavan n Jerry is our Jo, only difference here being Jerry chasing Tom unlike in normal cases.

Back on wheels, we danced for few beats and then settled in our seats to hear about each ones best experience in the trip, we all gifted each one with a caption which is listed at the end and also we shared our first impressions and also our feelings about each one of us. This made us come closer and every comments and compliments were taken sportively by all. Suhas did get his share of credits which came along with the bumps, for organising this w'ful trip. As we approached blore we made all the money transfers...  

As everthing has to end. We thanked all for participating and hoped to meet soon in our next venture. I reached my place at 10:30 and the rest you know it all...

Our famous Captions :

Bhavana - Bottoms up!! (for the wine shot)

Devdas - I likes it!! (He repeated this plenty of times)

Harsha - Metric harsha (for describing his wound inch long and two inch wide)

Jyothi  - Jerry

Manoj - Kesaru Gadde Erehula, Mental Manja, android Manoj

Pavan - DJ

Radhika - Rose Ragini(Rose for celebrating childrens day and suhas liked her name as Ragini)

Sahana - Chatter box, No pause only play, RJ (needs no explanantion)

Sneha - UNO girl (She can step out of bus without her cell but not UNO cards)

Suhas - Anything for girls (needs no explanantion)

Sulakshana - Call me Su, not again (means no su su)

Suma - 420 (thx to my efforts) , malli

Waiting for all the pics. And looking forward for the next weekend!!! :)