{"id":2574,"date":"2016-02-01T22:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2019-08-02T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T09:39:24","slug":"recovering-from-kp-day-trip-to-hogenakkal-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/recovering-from-kp-day-trip-to-hogenakkal-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from KP: Day trip to Hogenakkal Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the KP trek I wanted to relax so last weekend I went for a day trip to Hogenakkal Falls<\/a> with friends and this weekend I did absolutely nothing and it was glorious \ud83d\ude42 This post was supposed to have been published last week but first I was waiting for the pics to be uploaded and then got busy with work so didn’t get a chance to finish the post before today. But better later than never so here we go. <\/p>\n

We (14 of us) left Bangalore at ~7am which was quite good considering certain folks (and I am not going to name names) were running quite late and made me wait outside my house for almost 45 mins. We had hired a 13 seater Tempo Traveller for the trip and the guy made pretty good time. Coincidentally it was Shammi’s birthday so when we stopped for breakfast we cut the cake and created enough of a racket disturbing everyone else in the restaurant that the owner asked us to move to a private room so that we didn’t scare the rest of his customers away. <\/p>\n


\nThe Mandatory cake facial<\/center><\/p>\n

After finishing food we were on our way and spent the next 3 hours fooling around. Played a whole lot of dumb-charades , took selfies and basically drove the driver nuts. The way was quite scenic and traffic wasn’t too bad but even if that wasn’t the case the company was fun enough to make the trip enjoyable. This time most of the folks who came for the trip were people who we knew so there were no unpleasant surprises like last time. <\/p>\n


\nEveryone Smile<\/center><\/p>\n

Once we got to the falls we found that the only place where you were allowed to go into the water was this one place that didn’t look very clean and there was a very long queue so we all decided to skip that and go directly for the boat ride in the coracles (Bamboo Boats) with the idea that we would get into the water in a cleaner less crowded area. As there were 14 of us and each boat could only take 4 people at a time we rented 4 boats and were off. The boat ride was a two part affair where we boated to an Island sort of place and then had to walk across to get to the other side while the boatman carried the boats across then we got back in the water and spent a good 2 hours (maybe more) in the water. Not sure of the exact time we spent in the water as I had to take my watch off and put it in the bag along with the phone to prevent it from getting soaked. Though having things in the bag didn’t really help much because my spare set of clothes were completely wet by the time we finished, thankfully the phone and the watch escaped this fate and were reasonably dry. <\/p>\n


\nUs in the boat<\/p>\n

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\nSome of the small falls we saw during the boat ride<\/center><\/p>\n

Due to some restrictions we were not allowed to get in the water during the boat ride but thanks to some negotiations we were allowed to get in the water in a secluded area with a small waterfall and it was great. We spent almost an hour in the water over there and had to be forced out of the water. <\/p>\n

After the boat ride finished we had a late lunch (really late ’cause it was around 4pm) at Hotel Tamil Nadu. The food was decent and quite tasty (though that could be because we were starving so all food would have tasted good by this time). After lunch we fooled around a bit outside the restaurant ’cause no one was in the mood to head back.<\/p>\n

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\nLets climb a tree like our ancestors used to…<\/p>\n

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\nGroup Pic outside the Tamil Nadu Restaurant<\/p>\n

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\nHow can we have a birthday celebration without Birthday Bumps?
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

On the way back we had a pit stop on the way to watch the sunset and it was gorgeous. Took a whole bunch of pics and then we were on our way again. After a bit folks decided the best way to pass the time was to dance in the bus. I am surprised that the driver didn’t get into an accident considering the amount of racket we made and how distracting it must have been to have 14 people dancing\/screaming behind him for almost 3 hours. Unfortunately none of the photos I took of the dancing came out clean, but still the memories are crystal clear. We stopped for dinner at a roadside bar\/restaurant but it looked very shady so we decided to get the food packed and ate our dinner in the bus itself which was an experience in itself. <\/p>\n


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\nSunset on the way back from Hogenakkal Falls<\/p>\n

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\nGroup pic at the sunset point<\/center><\/p>\n

Finally we reached Bangalore around 10pm (maybe a bit earlier) and then all of us went our different ways with great memories and a plan to do similar trips again in the near future. <\/p>\n

Well this is all for now, will write more later.<\/p>\n

– Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the KP trek I wanted to relax so last weekend I went for a day trip to Hogenakkal Falls with friends and this weekend I did absolutely nothing and it was glorious \ud83d\ude42 This post was supposed to have been published last week but first I was waiting for the pics to be uploaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-travel-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}