A TRIP TO SHIVSAMUDRAM

Today 1st Nov, was the Lakshmi Pujan day of this year's diwali.Being here at bangalore only we(Abhigyan ambrish and Nishant - my cousin in bangalore)decided to have an outing.Nishant had bought an alto just a week back.(Mainly we three were bored by the daily schedule at iiit.It was too boring and we needed a much required change.We started to decide on a score of places starting from a visit to Mysore,then making it Nandi Hills and finally settling with GanganaChukki Falls(Shivsamudram).ShivSamudram is a waterfall located on cauvery river 120 Kms from Bangalore.Our expedition started at 7.05am in the morning with my waking up and waking up Ambrish and Abhigyan.So finally after our morning scores we reached Nishant's house where he ws eagerly waiting for us with alooPoha ready for us.Everyone(abhigyan Ambrish and I)had a good maharashtrian breakfast after a very long time.We also carried the lunch with us.
Our journey started thru' Kanakpura route as suggested by me(expert views are always needed).The roads was horrible with the last week's havoc rain making a toll on it.It took us 3 and 1\2 hrs to reach over there with Nishant and Abhigyan at the driving seats.With the roads being totally bad we couldn't have a good drive throughout the route.Abhigyan and Nishnat were in the front seats.I and Ambrish were at the rear seat enjoying sleep.I enjoyed for 5 Kms only bcos the bad roads.Ambrish had a nice sleep for around 20 kms in the journey.We had our excursion thru' Kanakpura and then konnapura bypassing Maddur and finally reaching ShivSamudram.Bcos of the last weeks rains the falls were at its best.I cannot expect it much better.I jus cannot describe it in words.we decided to go to the foot of the falls and then climb upwards.We had good trecking experience also.Going down and climbing up.We had a scary moment also.Nishant lost his balance and was about to fall from a height of around 60 feet but abhigyan caught him.Had abhigyan not been there it would have been a bad day for us.Ambrish too had a unusal incident.Seeing the slippery surface he didn't come come down with us but too capture a closer view of te falls he went upwards and was taking photographs over there. He heard a hissing sound over there and turned back and got a glimse of snake after which he just came downwards in a moment.We had Aloo parathas as our lunch after which we started back for Bangalore.Nishant was already upset with the incident so he gave the driving seat to me.We took a differnet route this time via Maddur,Channarayapatna to Banglore.The road was really nice and and we got the enjoyment of a fast drive back to home.I drived for around 60 Kms and touched a max of 110Km/hr.Nishant took over for another 20 kms and then abhigyan also made his day by touching 120km/hr.We reached backed Banglore in 3hrs around 7.pm in evening.Our expedition came to an end with sweets waiting for us at nishant's house.We are planning for a tour of 2-3 days might be pondichery or Kerala next year whenever we get time..