"Get up guys", Sarbjit came in our room. "We have to go to Rayikottai
today". With one eye open, I glanced at my mobile. It was 4:15am. The
enthusiasm emanating from his voice made him look like a kid who got
something that he desired from a long time.
"Buzz of Dude" It's just 4:15. We have to go by 6:30 and don't you dare enter my room before 5:30. Just 2 minutes passed by and I was again sleeping peacefully. But that peace was short lived.
"Kandhon
se milte hain kandhe, kadmo se kadam milte hai, hum chalte hai jab
aise, dil dushman ke hilte hain" Rahul played music in full volume on
his speakers. Rubbing my eyes and swearing on his name, I got up and
went barking in his room. Seeing the energy, my expression also changed
and I also joined the party. The only person left sleeping now was Rohit
but hearing the pandemonium, he also woke up.
Laughing,
giggling, chuckling, singing, dancing, we all got ready and reached
Baiyyappanahalli station at 6:40am (an hour before the scheduled time).
We were supposed to meet other teammates at this station. The train was
just 5 minutes late (considering its India, it's a big achievement)
Three more team members joined us at the same station, and we all boarded the train.
"Rayakottai, Here we come"
The train started after some time and with that started the event which gave everyone unforgettable memories.
It
was awesome mix n match from people from all parts of India. But the
way all mixed and started enjoying, it did not seem like they were
meeting for first time.
Seeing breakfast in hand of Monalisa,
Shashidhar started talking with her. Seeing the pleading in his voice,
the young lady gave her breakfast to him and within no time, it was
over. After that started the belly filling session.
With
our bellies full, one of the guys took out portable speakers, and with
Bollywood songs playing, few of us started shaking our legs. After some
hesitation, whole group mingled and started enjoying the party. All
other passengers in train also started enjoying themselves.
About
10:00am, we reached the Rayakottai station, and the organizers Santosh
and Channa counted us and made sure that none is left behind. After
getting our lunch parcels 29 BTCians started the journey. The trek was
easy, the weather was ok, the co-members were awesome and experience was
unforgettable. Walking, talking, taking photos of each other in
different pose, we all reached the top around 12-12:30pm.
Unfortunately
even after Santosh's advice to carry water bottle, we did not take
water with us and were really thirsty when we went up. But it was good
for us to have such cooperative members who gave us water and brought
new life in us. We spent some time at top and did that photography
session. The organizers had decided a place where to have lunch since
sitting at top and having lunch for such a big group was risky affair.
So we opened our lunch packets and started munching lemon rice. I, being
from north India normally do not like rice. But trust me, the party
atmosphere or the hunger, whatever it was, that was the delicious lunch,
I had in recent time.
The organizers pre warned us not
to throw plastic bags on our way and our fun should not be reason of
the beautiful place being converted into a dustbin. We collected all the
after lunch polybags etc. into a big polybag and made sure it was not
left there to spoil the place.
After that, started the
dance session. We were enjoying ourselves but then somehow the honeybees
were let loose and were all over the place. Maybe something hit their
bee hive. We had to leave the place. We all started descending and
in sometime reached back to village.
We all had drinks there that gave
us new energy and we all headed towards the station.
(p.s- With drinks I mean lime soda, don't get your hopes too high, alcohol and smoking is strictly prohibited with BTC)
So,
this was end of beautiful journey with unforgettable memories of
Rayakottai. I would like to thank the organizers and founders of BTC.
This
is Ikshit Batra signing off for now. Will come back with another tale
of another outing. For photos you can go to below links.
Written By : Ikshit Batra
Organized By : Channabasappa Nad and
Santosh Kumar Gupta
Members Count : 29 (25M, 4F)
Date of event : 10th Aug, 2013
Place : Rayakottai Fort Trek
Pictures : Santosh,
Channa,
Nikhilesh,
Sribacha,
Sarabjit
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