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I took this pic last year at a place called Khandala station in India using my Motorola Defy MB525, was gonna post the instagram version of this pic but my Defy has fallen for the deadly random reboot sickness which this model suffers from and I lost all my data.
My friends and I were heading out to start our trek at Dukes Nose near this place. Along the way we had to cross over to the other side by using the foot over bridge. Just as we entered the station, this baby approached us from the opposite side and came to a standstill right in front of me. My friends are pro-photographers but this pic I took lazily turned out to be the best of it all.
I say this because the trip was an unforgettable one. We never did make our destination. We got lost on the way
And as you can see from the picture, it was raining cats and dogs. But thats the beauty of hill stations here. They are amazing in the rains! We ended up enjoying and taking tons of photographs along the way (granted after a certain point we told not to take pics of a nearby place as it was the Navy's training ground ...no kidding). It was adventure in itself.
The fun thing that makes it even more
endearing to us
is that we decided to finally complete it this year. And this time we took a car instead of the bus+train route. Turns out the place from where we called it quits last year turned back to go home was just a 100 metres or so away from the actual base of our trek!!!!! It was so funny. What made it more special was the fact that after completing the trek we realised that the peak was too steep to climb in the rains. Oh and once again we got lost...but not for long.... we just ended up next door at Duchess Peak 8).
Nothing beats a trek where you climb to the peak and in the background you hear the Navy guys firing away at the firing range. For something that should have been one the easiest treks we have undertaken, it took us almost 2 years and twice the fun to complete it.
And this picture just brings back all those memories.