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We were on a trip to attend a friend's marriage inwards Dharwad, together with were to pass 2 days at Goa before reaching there. On our in conclusion black inwards Goa, acre nosotros were exactly chilling yesteryear the small-scale 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 invention was made. The adjacent day, nosotros were on our means to Dharwad, well, via Dandeli!
Just similar whatever road inwards the western ghats, the Goa-Dandeli road is extremely beautiful. Entirely covered amongst forest, it is inwards a truthful sense, a nature lover's paradise.
On our way, nosotros called Mr. Milind Kodkeni, who runs a homestay inwards Dandeli.
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| Goa-Dandeli |
After having a dainty home-cooked traditional lunch, Milind took us for a small-scale campaign together with walk inwards the jungle for closed to birdwatching. We were lucky to location closed to eagles, bluish kingfishers together with many other birds I don't fifty-fifty recollect the names of. He together with then took us to a location offering a regal view of the valley - Nagzari - kind of an echo point.
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| Spot the perched eagle? |
Milind is non a individual simply offering a homestay to earn money. He has been born together with brought upward inwards Dandeli; his forefathers owned saw mills in that location which were subsequently closed downward yesteryear the authorities to preclude farther deforestations.
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| A bee-eater amongst 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 amongst the same thoughts, together with finally over dinner formed yet closed to other crazy invention of going dorsum to Dandeli the adjacent hateful solar daytime after the marriage was over. We were slightly sceptical virtually the feasibility but yet decided to give it a shot.
We had already called Milind together with he had the whole excursion planned for us. It started amongst a trip to his friend, Narasimha's Farmhouse on the edge of the forest. It beingness a typical countryside home, in that location was no electricity in that location when nosotros reached. How thrilling it was, to exactly sit down inwards the porch of the employment solid (osari) together with sentry the environment larn darker, acre sipping the hot, good for you lot 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 inwards Kali river. Since nosotros had decided to piece of work out early on the adjacent day, nosotros told Milind that nosotros would non larn for it (silly us!!). But champaign Milind was resolved on making us sense it. While nosotros were getting fix the adjacent morning, nosotros got a telephone vociferation upward from Milind telling us that in that location was closed to other grouping interested inwards 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 invention 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 induce 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 inwards water!
We got dorsum to the dorm, changed, had a dainty expert brunch at Milind's identify together with and then bade goodbye to him together with his employment solid unit of measurement amongst a heavy heart, entirely amongst the resolution of going in that location again.
Author Bio: H5N1 software engineer yesteryear profession, Chaitrali together with her hubby love to travel; endure it a leisure trip, a trek, a super-express hectic trip - anything. The entirely constraint is that it has to endure a niggling "hatke". She of late got into go blogging after closed to serious thought from her husband. She blogs at http://chaitraliagashe.
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