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We were on a trip to attend a friend's marriage ceremony inward Dharwad, together with were to pass 2 days at Goa before reaching there. On our in conclusion black inward Goa, spell nosotros were exactly chilling past times the pocket-size puddle at our villa, our friend started telling us virtually his father's trip to Dandeli. One affair Pb to another, together with a crazy innovation was made. The side past times side day, nosotros were on our agency to Dharwad, well, via Dandeli!
Just similar whatever road inward the western ghats, the Goa-Dandeli road is extremely beautiful. Entirely covered alongside forest, it is inward a truthful sense, a nature lover's paradise.
On our way, nosotros called Mr. Milind Kodkeni, who runs a homestay inward Dandeli.
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| Goa-Dandeli |
After having a overnice home-cooked traditional lunch, Milind took us for a pocket-size crusade together with walk inward the jungle for around birdwatching. We were lucky to spot around eagles, bluish kingfishers together with many other birds I don't fifty-fifty squall upwards the names of. He thence took us to a spot offering a regal view of the valley - Nagzari - form of an echo point.
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| Spot the perched eagle? |
Milind is non a soul only offering a homestay to earn money. He has been born together with brought upwards inward Dandeli; his forefathers owned saw mills at that topographic point which were later on nigh downwards past times the authorities to foreclose farther deforestations.
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| A bee-eater alongside his catch |
All this simply served a teaser together with nosotros left Dandeli wishing nosotros had to a greater extent than time. We reached Dharwad at black alongside the same thoughts, together with finally over dinner formed yet around other crazy innovation of going dorsum to Dandeli the side past times side solar daytime after the marriage ceremony was over. We were slightly sceptical virtually the feasibility but even thence decided to give it a shot.
We had already called Milind together with he had the whole excursion planned for us. It started alongside a trip to his friend, Narasimha's Farmhouse on the edge of the forest. It beingness a typical countryside home, at that topographic point was no electricity at that topographic point when nosotros reached. How thrilling it was, to exactly sit down inward the porch of the job solid (osari) together with sentinel the environment larn darker, spell sipping the hot, salubrious herbal tea.
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| Out of the dark |
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| As darkness laid in |
Dandeli offers the facility for white H2O rafting inward Kali river. Since nosotros had decided to exit early on the side past times side day, nosotros told Milind that nosotros would non become for it (silly us!!). But plainly Milind was resolved on making us sense it. While nosotros were getting fix the side past times side morning, nosotros got a telephone weep upwards from Milind telling us that at that topographic point was around other grouping interested inward rafting together with thence he could brand arrangements for an early on excursion, if nosotros were fix for it. Needless to say, nosotros changed our innovation again.
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| The Kali river, non equally peaceful equally it seems here |
The trainers gave the instructions, explained the signs together with their meanings together with nosotros were off. The Kali river offers the rapids of score betwixt iii together with 4. The cold, crazy H2O rapids kept on bumping on to the raft. After going downstream for a while, our trainer revealed a surprise to us. He decided to get got us upstream! It was equally crazy equally it could be: the H2O splashing on our faces, the turbulence together with the thrill! By the fourth dimension nosotros reached the complete spot, nosotros were drenched inward water!
We got dorsum to the dorm, changed, had a overnice proficient brunch at Milind's identify together with thence bade goodbye to him together with his job solid unit of measurement alongside a heavy heart, exclusively alongside the resolution of going at that topographic point again.
Author Bio: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 software engineer past times profession, Chaitrali together with her hubby love to travel; survive it a leisure trip, a trek, a super-express hectic trip - anything. The exclusively constraint is that it has to survive a piffling "hatke". She latterly got into locomote blogging after around serious stance from her husband. She blogs at http://chaitraliagashe.
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