Trip to Malshej Ghat

Here I am searching for the topic of my first blog ! But what the heck, I can as well start with the recent trip I enjoyed with my company buddies at Malshej Ghat on Nasik Road.

Well as usual a lot of planning, prework, suggestions, arguments, dissatisfactions and delights went into the pre-tour days of the trip. Debates were going on about why cant we go on weekdays, why not to some resort, why is the budget this and not that(I cant really write the number here :) ). Well I will need a seperate blog for each of these topics but in total whole of the plan was well chalked out.

Finally the day came of the trip. We had a 50 seater bus for those who wanted to be together in the group and I bet these are the ones who enjoyed the day to the fullest. Few were coming by their cars.

The journey started as planned +1 hour late. Here is a snap of Santosh raising Indian flag in front of

the bus. Yes you guessed it right, it was our independence day 15-August !!!

So i boarded the bus from the stop near Viman Nagar at about 7:45PM. After entering the bus to my releaf none of my colleagues or their family members were in businees attire which happen to be a rule in the company premises. The journey went on as we picked up people at various stops.

near Nasik phata, we were joined by the car-riders.

The journey continued through the roads towards Nasik. As a ritual it is a must to have an antakshari in the bus when on a long travel with a group of people and hence it was decided to start the same. The only problem was we were extremely hungry "Papi pet gane nahi de raha tha". So we took a halt at a place dhaba kam nothing and alightned the bus. We were carrying the food items with us which we started serving.

A general observation, when there is a group of people with some work to be done ( like idli serving in this case), there are always people ready to take the work on them and there are people like us taking snaps of ourselves. Well everyone has their own meaning of enjoyment afterall ! As you can see the tea wasunbelievable there !

We then continued with our travel and then the GAME of ANTAKSHARI began. Wow were totally unaware that within ourselves there were Kishor Kumar, Madan mohan, Sonu Nigam, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha bhosle and many Telgu singers whom I dont know. Antakshari was in full swing for close to 1hour45 minutes and yes our team won. By the time on the left hand we started observing the cloud cover over the ghat's of Malshej, our destination.

We unpacked the bags and were ready to rock and roll unfortuantely there was no rain on that day so an extra pair of clothes was just an overload. The agenda was jam packed, sightseeing followed by some games then the lunch and the DJ.

Poeple dispersed to their favorite spots as there were variety of things to enjoy like a backwater of a dam, waterfalls, green pleatue, steep hills and deep valleys, the forts of Raja Shivaji and last but the most important greenery (You know what I mean!)

After spending time walking around observing the beauty of the god crated nature, we decided to have a much needed lunch. The taste of food was awsome dnt know the reason may be it was the hunger but dont want to take any credit away from the cook. We played the vally volly for sometime till one of our best players stroke the ball on the roof of the building. This made sure we were on schedule for the big DJ. We heard that DJ was the best DJ inPune and recently won some very illustrious award.

The DJ was carrying out the fun games, dance, music, masti and maja. Energy was flowing like a force * distance.

I happen to be the singer of the day with my song

"Sach Keh Raha Hai Diwana" being appreciated by everyone from our crowd as well as those from outside our group. This was the first time I was singing in a literal open forum. I was on cloud 9 that time on hearing the words of praise.