Godavari Trip

"A big thanks for realizing this unmatched outing, amidst our busy, digitally cocooned A/C lifestyle reminding us that we are humans and very well part of nature" is how one of our crew members has described it.
"23" of us have started the journey from Secunderabad. As usual, I started roaming in the train and met an old friend of mine unexpectedly. Had a chit chat with her for some time (she is married now ;-) so stop ur speculations). Felt very happy meeting her after sooo long. Thats why I always feel the train journeys are almost like a mini orkut.
Since all our tickets were booked at different times, we were scattered in the train. 6 of us in one compartment have started playing cards. That game was an interesting one involving a lot of speak-out. We got excited and started shouting. All of a sudden, the police came and gave us a warning "if this repeats again, first I will ask you all to get down in the next station and only then I will speak with you all. If you want you can call up any big shot and inform him." We stopped cards and slept off immediately.
The next morning, we reached RJY and then started off to Pattiseema, 25 kms away from the city. The bus was good. We were informed that at Pattiseema, we would be given "Raju gari Bungalow" for refreshing. So, I was under heavy expectations that it would be some sort of an old palace. After we reached there, to my surprise, that was a small house, with just 2/3 rooms and very few restrooms. So, it took more than 2 hours for all of us to get ready. Finally, our journey started. Many of us are new to each other. So, we started off with an introductory session and then the songs session started. Unfortunately, I had to start and I sang "Har gadi.. " in
Kal Ho Na Ho. Then, we played Anthakshari, Bluff, Housie etc. etc. We've reached Gandi Pochamma temple where they showed us places where many telugu movies like Trisulam, Bangaru Bullodu, Janaki Ramudu etc. where shot. Then we reached Devipatnam where we picked up delicious lunch and had it on the boat. After that, we saw Papikondalu and Perantalapalli where we saw a small waterfall. Next, we went to Kolluru, a place on the riverside of Godavari river, which I can never forget in life. Here are a few bamboo huts on the sand in which we stayed. We had a camp fire also at this place. The dinner was tooooooo good. In the night, we played musical chairs, passing the box, Mafia. This Mafia is one game to which ppl got addicted a lottttt. Believe me, we discussed what happened in the game even yesterday when we were having lunch. It was almost midnight when we slept. Early next morning, we walked for ~2kms where we had bath. Here is were I hurt my leg while playing in the water :-(( Later we played volleyball for sometime and then started our way back. Late in the evening we saw Mahanandi temple and then reached RJY. During the entire trip, there was no cell phone coverage. So, no disturbance at allllll. :-D