Continued from part-2....
It was seven in the morning and we all got up....it was too cold outside...we bared all that and luckily for us...some of us got a chance to take bath....at the railway station...and I still remember it be one of the neat stations...we enquired on what to see...in the whole of Lonavala and Khandala....and our first destination for the day was the....bushi dam.....in Lonavala...which was 4 km away from the rail station. We decided to walk through the station....walking merrily all over the road...taking photographs of whatever interesting we could find.....walking through we found a steep peak on the way....and we all decided to trek...but found that...it was too difficult as it was too steep and there was a chance of falling down.....still we decided to take it on and were successful in reaching the top of it...it was a great feeling to see the path we had taken...to reach the top...we observed that it was thick forest ahead once we climbed on to the peak....and decided not to venture through it.....though there was a great natural beauty....before our eyes.....we slowly got down....luckily we got to a bus to go to the bushi dam...we were there in 15 mins...we walked through the dam and saw lot of people and enjoying the water....dancing and swimming in the water....but we had other plans...we just moved through the dam and found that we had another mountain to climb after which we could enjoy a bath after 1.5 days...we climbed through the rocky hill and reached the "tiger point" from where there was no way to go...but to just close our eyes and stand below the pouring water which was .....
The route to the top of the hill was not easy....as we had to climb through the rocks and make sure we do not fall down as the whole surface was skiddy due to the overnight rains...also the route had water flowing...if we slip and fall down we will directly land up at the water reservoir downside the hill....it was real tough thing to complete....but still we gathered wits to go and could complete the bath under the water falls....the water falls at a speed of nearly 40 KMPH and it was real ice cool.....after the cold bath...we had some food....then played in the water and who ever knew swimming went through with it.....but had to stop soon as it had started raining....braving all this we started for Khandala 20 km from where we were standing....at four in the evening we reached Khandala...by which time the rain had receded and there was bright sunshine.....we reached the highest point of whole Khandala from where we can see the vehicles going through the six lane road which was 1km down the hill......we walked for about 15 mins....and realized there was a area from which we can venture through to one of the thickest forests of the great western ghats...some of us wanted to go into the forest and venture into it....I stopped them and tried to make them remember what happened at the simhagad (in the first part)...but some of them wanted to have a look and they went inside.....but returned within seconds.....in a short distance we found a MP's guesthouse...on a hill...which had a steep end...it was very picturesque view of the three railway lines meeting a one place....feeling of seeing toy trains passed through my mind...whenever I saw two trains passing each other or a train passed through that route....it was one of the most memorable days....as we had done all sorts of things to fully enjoy the tour as such.....we spent around 2 hours and after it was told not safe anymore as it was getting darker and darker by each second in the evening and we had to catch a train to Pune from Lonavla....which was at 9 pm...we took autos and reached the Lonavla station around 8.30 pm and the train had not yet arrived to the station from Pune...we waited for 15 mins...and train was there....it started as scheduled and reached Pune at 10.20 pm....by which time we exhausted and had no choice but to go and sleep in the night.....but we had the cloak room paper lost and we had to take our luggage....we updated the staff working and they called the station master for the night....he said it was not possible for him...to give the luggage and we should not take anything from the luggage except the tickets and money we had kept in my luggage....we obeyed to what they said....we were asked to come arnd 11 am the next day and collect the luggage after listing down the articles in the each one's luggage.....we went the next day and without having much discussion I voluntarily paid the whole amount...and got the luggage back to the room....there was a sigh of relief in the whole team of my friends as we had the luggage back....we spent the rest of the day till the evening...sleeping...chatting...etc...it was four in the evening...we started for the station...faring goodbye to the hotel staff...we were in the station and realized the train was late by 20 mins...this time we were lucky enough to get the seats for all together....we chatted all through the night recollecting the memory of the days we had spent as a unit....it was six in the morning of 30 August, 2002 and we are back in Hyderabad after what would have been was a great tour....it was a holiday on account of "Janmashtami"....and a Friday tooo...after reaching home I went straight through to the hospital....to see my sweet little sister who was 3 days old then.......
After reaching the college the following Monday...we enjoyed seeing the photos and explaining the things we had done...during the whole tour....which the class listened to with curiosity and interest.
Hope u liked all the parts and my sweetest memory as a whole.....
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