Mulshi Trip

Last weekend was a trip to Mulshi and the Tamhini ghats. Mulshi is about 40 Kms. from Pune city. There were thirteen of us on 7 bikes.

Our day started at 5:30 a.m. Pali was supposed to pick up Rashmi[the only woman with us]. Needless to say how excited he was. He invited me to go along with him to pick her up, at which I agreed leaving the others furious especially Jassi as he was supposed to accompany me.

Our meeting point was Chandni chowk, where we were supposed to take our first round of
breakfast. As soon as all of us gathered, we ordered for some POHA and TEA. You just had to see Pali there, extremely suave. His polite manners could bring any woman to her knees.

Thereafter begun our journey to Mulshi. It was a pretty long drive, but the landscape that emerged was exceptional. The greenery along the road, clouded skies made it look like we are enroute Heaven.

We took a short halt at a place. Here Pali had to take a leak, may be his bladder was full. Surprising it was, but it was only Pali who had to pee. It may have been embarrassing to the woman accompanying him, but then who cares, its a natures call, you gotta attend it. But then even surprising was, every halt we made, Pali had to take a leak.

We took our first break at a waterfall. I was totally astonished by the beauty of the falls. I couldn't wait to take a dip, but our people seemed to be bit reserved, but this couldn't dampen my spirits. I took the lead and plunged into the waters. This couldn't stop Jassi from taking snaps of the over-enthusiastic me. In no time rest of the Team was in the waters. You couldn't describe the enthusiasm of the team. People were so thrilled that they literally forgot that the ground below them is slippery, which had Jassi slipping while taking snaps.

Here you had to see Pali as well behaved as before, a perfect gentleman, who did not even pay heed to my calls to enter the waters. It seemed as if he was he woman's chaperone. But the things happening around him took the toll, which had Pali getting into the waters. Pali's suavity was washed by the virgin waters. Here started Pali's photo session, giving a variety of muscle flexing poses. As Pali was engrossed in the waters his companion was getting bored, she wanted to leave this place but Pali was not around, so Chhotu and Pali had to give her a hand for getting down at which once Pali seemed to be annoyed at Chhotu. My happiness soon came to an end as we had to leave the falls to see some other places.

The drive after this was a bit difficult, it was raining cats and dogs, I could barely open my eyes as the water was directly entering my eyes, drive was getting tough. I was desperately looking for a shelter. After sometime the rain took a break, soon we reached a small restaurant, which didn't seem to be one. Here we had a round of snacks with omelets, pakados, chaklis and tea. Here at one point of time in the conversation some one spoke of performing stunts on the bike, at which Pali willingly agreed. He had to perform the stunts on a Yamaha RX 135, as this was the only bike available on which such a stunt can be performed. After a few tries Pali could manage to do a wheelie and a wheel-spin later. There was a big applause after his show, at which I uttered IMPRESSED...!!!. Seeing this even Riyaz tried to attempt a similar stunt, but not sure to impress whom. Well but he didn't make it as successfully as Pali.

Here it started raining cats and dogs. It seemed difficult to drive, but then we had decided to leave the place. I borrowed glasses from Anand, so I could drive with ease.
The drive here after was awesome, the wet roads, the greenery, clouded skies and the mild drizzle, absolutely heaven! Here we had some exchange of drivers, with Pali offering Rashmi to take over and Uday trying his hands afresh. While Rashmi took over very well, the drive wasn't smooth enough for Uday. He had a bad fall something kind of a somersault. This could not stop our enthusiastic photographers from recording the replay incident, yes a replay, Uday had to lay the bike back on the ground and sit besides it for a photo shoot. Here we also saw a group of halfnaked drunkards dancing by the side of the road. The color undie of one of the guys was similar to his complexion, which made it appear as if he was naked. This is what actually what made Uday lose control of the bike and led to his fall.

We started again, taking small halts to see the scenic beauty of the place. The landscape was amazing. The Western ghats have always been appealing to me. But our happiness was short lived, one of the bikes developed a problem and another had to turned on the reserve fuel. So we took a decision to revert back.

We came down to a restaurant to have lunch after which we went on to Sagar's place. Here we had a round of snacks and tea and then back home.

The snaps are available here>>