We wanted to start the next day trek at a relaxed pace as we had a short distance to cover. We would trek mostly through the forest roads never to take right in which case we would again reach Dudhsagar. On our way, we spotted a board which read 500mts to Ghost Canon. This 500mts never came for almost a kilometer. The canon was full of rocks with water standing in between its two banks. We reached Aranyak where we took a pit stop.
We next stopped for lunch on the road side. Inspite of taking sweet time, we reached Nandran camp site very early by 2:30PM. We dried our clothes in that hot afternoon sun, within no time they were dried. This camp had two deep wells for water. We had to pull the water out from well using buckets and use it for drinking and all other needs. The evening snacks had tea and peanuts. We took a stroll around this beautiful camp site to locate a watch tower.
Suma scared a pity spider by snapping a macro shots at it a hundred times. We saw panther marks on the trees around the camp, we were warned not to go out after dark. We started going through the pics taken, we were excited to see them on big screen. Our group had grown big with wifi and team, Ashi lured us by showing the pics of Sarkundi. Amazing place!!! We had our supper and assembled for our last campfire of our trek. Santhosh ji entertained us with his soulful songs. Camp leader too shared few jokes with us. Followed by songs and dance. We dint want to sleep so early so few of us continued our singing, dancing and experience sharing sessions. Mandeep finally danced!!!
The last day trek was a long one and also to be covered by noon. Santhosh uncle and Alka Aunt bid bye to the rest of the trek members as they were to catch a early train to Mumbai. We all missed their lovely company. We started early, initially the trek was inside the forest for almost 6kms. Reached a small stream. Our first pit stop. We reached another beautiful stream on the way. We relaxed here for a long time. Soon crossed a trench which was being dug to avoid public entering into the forest. After the forest exploration we were to walk on those tar roads, saw such roads after a long break. But this stretch was extremely tiring because of the hot sun. I literally threw myself on the road at one point of time. It was not too long fortunately. We reached the ancient temple in tambdi surla. Suma liked this name Thambdi Surla so much that she planned to name her childern after this name :P one will be named Thambdi and the other one as Surla!!! WOW. Imagine. The welcome drink here was the fresh stream flowing adjacent to the temple. The temple has a beautiful structure resembling any other south Indian temple. Like any other temples, this one too has few disfigured structures. But the linga in side the Garbha gudi was beautifully decorated with flowers.
It was very difficult to hold back your tired body from resting in this temple. We reached the temple by 12:30 and the bus to pick us up back to base camp was scheduled to come there by 2:30PM. So we had enough time to relax. Chilled lime soda quenched our never ending thirst. We started our bus journey back to base camp in panaji. Anthakshari pitched in to keep us occupied while covering this long ride. We reached the base camp by 4:30PM. The camp was now less crowded. We waited for our extra luggages, sanchu
left the same day. We had plans to visit evening cruise and then have dinner outside. With great lot of difficulty and confusion we boarded Royale cruise, which was more or less a military school wrongly named a party cruise. We still managed to have lil fun and started looking for a good hotel to fill our empty stomachs.
Suma scared a pity spider by snapping a macro shots at it a hundred times. We saw panther marks on the trees around the camp, we were warned not to go out after dark. We started going through the pics taken, we were excited to see them on big screen. Our group had grown big with wifi and team, Ashi lured us by showing the pics of Sarkundi. Amazing place!!! We had our supper and assembled for our last campfire of our trek. Santhosh ji entertained us with his soulful songs. Camp leader too shared few jokes with us. Followed by songs and dance. We dint want to sleep so early so few of us continued our singing, dancing and experience sharing sessions. Mandeep finally danced!!!
The last day trek was a long one and also to be covered by noon. Santhosh uncle and Alka Aunt bid bye to the rest of the trek members as they were to catch a early train to Mumbai. We all missed their lovely company. We started early, initially the trek was inside the forest for almost 6kms. Reached a small stream. Our first pit stop. We reached another beautiful stream on the way. We relaxed here for a long time. Soon crossed a trench which was being dug to avoid public entering into the forest. After the forest exploration we were to walk on those tar roads, saw such roads after a long break. But this stretch was extremely tiring because of the hot sun. I literally threw myself on the road at one point of time. It was not too long fortunately. We reached the ancient temple in tambdi surla. Suma liked this name Thambdi Surla so much that she planned to name her childern after this name :P one will be named Thambdi and the other one as Surla!!! WOW. Imagine. The welcome drink here was the fresh stream flowing adjacent to the temple. The temple has a beautiful structure resembling any other south Indian temple. Like any other temples, this one too has few disfigured structures. But the linga in side the Garbha gudi was beautifully decorated with flowers.
It was very difficult to hold back your tired body from resting in this temple. We reached the temple by 12:30 and the bus to pick us up back to base camp was scheduled to come there by 2:30PM. So we had enough time to relax. Chilled lime soda quenched our never ending thirst. We started our bus journey back to base camp in panaji. Anthakshari pitched in to keep us occupied while covering this long ride. We reached the base camp by 4:30PM. The camp was now less crowded. We waited for our extra luggages, sanchuleft the same day. We had plans to visit evening cruise and then have dinner outside. With great lot of difficulty and confusion we boarded Royale cruise, which was more or less a military school wrongly named a party cruise. We still managed to have lil fun and started looking for a good hotel to fill our empty stomachs.
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