The Great Outing (Trip to Anandadhama) Day 2 - Part Three

The alarm that we kept yesterday night did ring on the correct time. I was very sleepy but was interested in trekking. I woke up Dhanasekara Pandian who was lying next to me he said he is not coming as he is so tired and then I switched to Nagarjuna and he too had the same answer. Somehow I convinced these fellows and asked them to get ready by 6.15 AM. We went near the Dining area and had our Tea and there were few other members there. We started our trekking at 6.45 AM and we went into the forest. Few of our guys used nature’s gifts and Sudhakar was leading us all. He broke a small stick from a Neem tree and started brushing his tooth, few others followed him there we were back on the path to Stone Age. There were some amazing spiders in the forest, they were huge in size and I never saw any spider at that size. I realized that I was not the only person surprised by the spiders all the others were in the same amazement as I was in. We went to the waterfall nearby and there were even bigger spiders. People were busy photographing the spiders. We spent a long time capturing spiders in the camera and missed the real trekking. Then we took a group photo there and started heading back to the resort for breakfast.

We reached Anandadhama at around 8.45 AM and had our breakfast. Our breakfast was Idly, Vada and Kesari Bath. We also had bread, butter and Jam. Santhosh came and said that we will spend some more time in the Jungle Gym (Tarzan swing, Ditch Jump and Archery etc.) then we will get into the river for sometime he said. We finished our breakfast and went back to rooms to keep our shoes in the room and refreshed ourselves and assembled back for the Jungle Gym activities.

The first Activity was balancing beam, there is a short bamboo kind of beam on which you have to walk and cross it to the other end. We all tried balancing for sometime and few made it and few of us failed. Then we were split into two teams one under Kiran Vinay Babu and another under Sudhakar. Both these fellows selected their team members and after the team selection Santhosh swapped the captains of the two teams. I mean Kiran was captaining the team chose by Sudhakar and Sudhakar was captaining the team chose by Kiran. I was on Sudhakar’s team. The rule was the teams will start from the opposite ends and have to reach the other respective ends. The teams should crisscross only in the red zone.

We were given five minutes time to come with strategies. We decided that our team will sit on the red zone and Kiran’s team will crisscross us there in red zone then we will move towards the end. The rules were of the available two ropes one per each team that can be used as life line and only one person from a team can hold in any point of time and another rule was if the captain of the team falls down the whole team has to start from the beginning and even if one person is not there we cannot crisscross. Another important rule was there should be no human language used for communication once the game starts. We started off and Sudhakar was in the middle and Prasath was in the lead position and somehow we easy got into the red zone and sat comfortably. Meanwhile Kiran’s team had trouble in reaching the red zone and Kiran who was leading his team from the front fell once so they had to start from the scratch again. It took us long time even to figure it out and there was one of our teammate Chaitanya falling on outside and Kiran’s team was finding it difficult to crisscross us. This was called off in between and Santhosh, the instructor told us that we guys should have crossed and Kiran’s team should have sat as we had short distance to cover to the red zone and then we all realized that, we just did it the other way around.

Will post the remaining in my next post or else it will be too big and difficult to follow.