Light at the end of the tunnel....

This is a lil old but interesting :)


Just discovered that 5000 bats with you in a tunnel is really scarry
and "Light at the end of the tunnel"is the most beautiful phrase ever


Went on a solo trek from Sakleshpur to Subramanya this weekend.
(Subtract 5 kms on both sides)

Check out for snaps of day one.

45kms, 50 Tunnels and 75 odd bridges crossed and now I am tired, really
tired.



Here are the learnings of those two days.

Your office colleague's, "Wearable camera" that can store 500 snaps
and take videos as well consumes a lot of power and is likely to run
out of battery by the end of day one.
Sleek red color battery that you see in Eveready ads can not
illuminate anything beyond you big toe. Certainly not recommended for
crossing tunnels.
Look up "Blood sucking bats in India" on Google before and not after the
trek.
Just because you are going to some god forsaken place called Donigal,
does not mean that you don't need to book tickets on the Bangalore
Mangalore bus on a Friday night.
I normally tend to carry too much on treks. There are multiple reasons
for it. Strongest of them being the fact that I LOVE water and HATE
sitting in a bus with wet clothes. I just have to run to a hand
pump/waterfall/stream/lake/river/sea/ocean.. whatever, the moment I see
it. So I always used to end up with no dry clothes by the time I
cross my 5th stream on the trek. I would dream about dry underwear
hanging on the line at home. (Suddenly it becomes lucky underwear
which I end up wearing to my appraisal meetings). I learned something
from those treks and started carrying too much. On this one I learned,
"When you are going all alone you don't have to wet any of your
clothes under the waterfall"
While selecting one of several sheds to spend the night at an
abandoned railway station, a beautiful rose plant outside in full
bloom is not an important criterion. That's the one that leaks the
most.
While floaters are cool to walk on a muddy slippery terrain, but when
on hard sandy path shoes are the best. Small sand particles settle
down between the toes and can be rally irritating while walking and
painful the next day.
Wild cat takes a lot of time to cook.
Two cup noodles, two packets of biscuits, 6 chapattis a bun and a
packet of cup cakes for a hot meal of exotic wild animal may be a good barter
in a city. But when you are left with one cucumber, one packet of
chips and 35 kms over one and half day of walking to go that trade is
absolutely stupid.
Distances and time spans for tribal junta is very relative. The
distance between Yedakumari to Nittani kept varying from 13 to 33 kms
and 3 to 8 hours.
Anna kanji is tastiest food.
Bats are black in color and shit white. And they do it hanging up side
down. Don't know how they manage that without whitewashing themselves.
"Albino Bat" is an amusing thought.
75 tall bridges over narrow streams makes Acrophobia disappear. But 50 tunnels only increase
Claustrophobia and "Fear of Bats" (There's gotto be a word for it)
A book is an excellent company when you are tired an alone at an old
railway station.
Fresh dates in a polythene bag are best dates.