Thursday, June 4, 2009

A Trip To Pachmari(Part Two)

We planned to cover most of the points 2nd Day, so we had Hired Zipsy at last night only.
I woke up at 7 morning; Atmosphere was cool and pleasant. We spent some time in the Hotel’s Garden. There were lots of monkeys playing at Roof and Trees. One needs to be careful about them. Soon we realized it was already 9 so what happened to our Zipsy wala…but mistake was on our part as Zipsy wala was already waiting for us outside of the Hotel.
We had some snacks at market place, and then finally went for Entry Ticket and Guide.
Guide is compulsory, but as we were already late there was no guide available for us.
After this our 2nd day tour started.
First we went the Pandava Caves. There was a beautiful and well maintained garden in front of the cave. We were not willing to spend much time over there as it was
noon and Sun was on its peek. Had we visited this place at some other season we would have spent a quality time over here.


So we quickly wind-up there and went for Apsara Vihar. Here we hired a guide who narrated us all the stories about this Water Fall and pond. First he told us about the historical Importance and why it is called Apsara Vihar? ," During British rule in India, British women were used to take bath here and they were referred as fairies (Apsara) by local tribes because of their fairer complexion.” 

This place was also used as shooting spot in one of the great indian movie "Ashoka", starring SRK and Kareena Kapoor. Guide Told us many action sequences of SRK were performed by a duplicate. 

I was too tired by then as I was carrying my daughter too and she was 9 kg. Place was really cool, we had fun in water for some time, then we continued from a different path, guide showed us Panchali Kund in our way back to taxi.



We went to visit a spot called Rajat Prapat(Silver fall), as name suggests it was a waterfall in deep valley and we were watching it from far away opposite direction, so it seemed like a thin silver line.

After that we went to B-Fall , another water fall and another tracking L
 here too we had to walk almost one and half Km but fortunately this time a bearer (Pittu) was with us to carry our children and our belongings.


This was quite a big water fall in comparison to Apsara Vihar.
One can have a really good massage under this, as water was falling with great force. As we were with our kids, we decided not to take bath here and we went up on our way back to a place where water was flowing with little less current and was not deep enough. We really had great time here especially my daughter. She was first time in water but she was not afraid at all and had too much fun in water. Every body was just watching her playing and laughing.
Soon we realized we were too late from our scheduled time of return. We could have missed our last point “Sun set at Dhoop Gadh”. Our Driver was waiting for us (Seemed he wanted us to be late so that he could skip this last point so be aware of these drivers when you visit there and always keep an eye on time). He was in no mood of taking us to Dhoop Gadh saying "it is already
5:30 and we are too late, gates must be closed by now" but we told him just to drive. He reluctantly drove us to our last spot. Dhoopghad is the highest point of Pachmari as well as Madhya Pradesh. Way to Dhoopgadh was zigzagged with lots of sharp turns. Being a local driver and with Four wheel drive Zipsy, we were expecting him to navigate swiftly in these curves but he was driving damn slowly. I bet my friend Vijay could even drive it faster than him. Soon a Maruti 800 overtook us; I doubted about this small car reaching the destination. But it was moving up slowly so we had to be slower …
But woohooo!!! Car reached the gate and gate re-opened for them so we finally entered the Point at the perfect time. Here it was like we are all above the world; Sun was ready to disappear behind Satpura Hills.









It was a panoramic view to see the Sun setting down in Clouds and Hills. Sun set has never been so beautiful in my life. I took lots of snaps of this beautiful scenic view. This was the end of second day tour for us. We were about to return home next day.