This is a continuation of the previous post on the Kodachadri trek and if you didn't like that, you probably shouldn't read this either.
So far:
Some context for those not in the loop - We started the trek as 15 people (Adventure Consultants United) and were forced to split into two groups - the Eager ones (a) the lost and found group - 8 people and the normal ones - 7 people. The normal group had only trekked half way through the rote tried and tested Kodachadri trek route when the Lost and Found group had finished trekking an undisturbed mountain in spite of the leeches, snakes and impossible terrain. The two groups had no significant contact (which is probably good considering how much bragging each had prepared for the other).
Chapter 4: Hell's roller coaster
I was part of the lost and found group and we being satisfied with completing our unplanned trek decided to go easy and take a jeep to the intended peak. (For those of the other group pointing out that we didn't actually complete the trek, Can you feel us ignoring your supposedly clever quips? No? Try again! Ouch.. that must hurt!). While we waited for the Jeep, we witnessed something special - a bond between a not-so-special shoe and an exotic butterfly that followed the shoe to the end of the world.
According to Piyush (owner of the shoe), there were angels and Reincarnations involved. This is how it all happened according to him. << This story has been blocked due to blatant copyright infringement reasons >>
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| Weird Romeo-Juliet |
Finally after the impatient waiting through the unoriginal make believe attempts by the Kodachadri Valmiki (Piyush) we got a jeep to reach the Kodachadri Peak. We got into the Jeep, took a deep breath and decided to savor the smooth scenic ride ahead. Well atleast it was for a few kms until the Jeep made a harmless detour from the main road. The ride was the kind of stuff horror movies were made of - a road that didn't seem to end, a driver who didn't care to slow down and to top it all a girl gone crazy with fear crying and laughing simultaneously (Sandhyah, See I am not giving out names).
"the next thing he knew everything went black; he was pressed very hard from all directions; he could not breathe, there were iron bands tightening around his chest; his eyeballs were being forced back into his head; his ear-drums were being pushed deeper into his skull."
This is how J.K. Rowling explains Harry's first apparition experience. If muggles ever needed to prepare for such scenarios, the Kodachadri jeep ride would serve as a good simulator. Our heads were banging like coconuts on every beam that held the flimsy jeep together and the driver was flying/driving the jeep at angles that it wasn't designed for.
Chapter 5: On finding and getting lost
After about two hours with Satan on the wheel, we reached the peak(or almost close to it). Jayadev unable to drown all the momentum he gathered during the ride couldn't stop his legs from running towards every single peak he could find. With one running around like a pendulum trying to find the lost lazy group, the rest of us decided to go visit the temple that Kodachadri was so famous for. We were disappointed when somebody pointed out to us that the temple was another hour's trek from the point that the Jeep dropped us at. Tired bones make great philosophies and so we philosophised (if that isn't a word already, I reckon it should be) that God was everywhere even in our hearts and all we needed to see a temple to look into ourselves. Thus convincing ourselves of human goodness, we spent the rest of the evening waiting for the others, clicking selfies/groupies and making up stories to make the other group feel bad. After all where god is, the devil lives too!
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