We visited a cursed land...

“Oh! So this is what early morning looks like…”
It was a rare occurrence. We were awake at 4am.

Anil,Ramana,Abhiram andChaitu arrived in the tempo traveller at around 6 after keeping us (me, Neha and Reena) waiting for half an hour..(Not their fault.. they got lost n went round the wrong streets).. We picked up Gouse and the two Deepthis and started on our way to Talakad- the cursed land!


The drive in our tempo traveler was punctuated with songs and clicking of seriously mad pics.... However, there was almost no dancing this time, except for Deepthi grooving a li’l for some song, and Abhiram, Anil and Gouse unsuccessfully trying 2 imitate my signature move. Anil wasn’t his exuberant dancing self this time and we were left wondering whether it was coz he was missing Ezra a lot, or a li’l ‘orangy’ sumthing.. :D Well, we all did miss Ezzy and Santosh..

First stop was a li’l hotel where we had a gud-enough breakfast, the only proper meal we got the whole day.
We reached Barachuki Falls sumtime during mid-morning. There were around 100 steps to descend before we reached the water. While we went down, the Sun was trying to fry us, I was trying not to slip and break my teeth, others were trying to race each other, and Neha and Chaitu were trying to click a pic of everything. Their Photo-fetish makes me believe that in their previous births, Neha was a super model and Chaits was a star photographer. But nyways, it’s thanks to these two that we have all these wonderful moments captured safely.




When we finally reached the water, we saw loads of little fishes in it and a li’l snake which caused a bit of yelling and jumping around. Round boats called “theppas” took us to the waterfall, where everyone got completely drenched while trying to keep their balance on the super-slimy rocks. Was really fun.. the water was lovely.. Splash splash splash!!!




Now came the big ordeal.. going UP those dreadful steps in the scorching sun!! was hard.. I was almost half dragged up by Rumzy. : ) After climbing up we discovered that coconut water was the best thing in this creation. The next stop was Talakadu. After a horrible lunch, we changed and charged straight into a little river (with ugly moss floating around) and had a great ball-game. After a while we cameout of the water and played sumthing similar to rugby which Abhiram had thought up. Gousie, Ramana,Reena and Abhi proved to be fantastic players.





After dark, we reached the actual cursed land of Talakadu. Started with a beautiful Shiva temple. Fom there we were led by a guide to other small temples which were buried under sand and had to be excavated by the Archaeological dept. It was dark, with only moonlight guiding us.. a jungle path with occasional eerie sounds – a perfect setting to hear the tale of an ancient Curse!

Ages ago, there was a queen who, when attacked by the king of mysore, gave a curse that the land of Talakadu would always be covered under the sand, the king would lose all his treasure, and would be left without an heir.

Nyways, the moon-lit walk on the sand in the jungle was really wonderful!!

And then we returned home, (watching a couple of mad movies on the way)..
Exhausted, but happy!