11 Th JUNE WASOTA TREK

“WASOTA”

What comes first into your mind after thinking of this word ??? The worst trek in life...... or, exciting or adventuress, or thrilling, or the last one.... These may be some words that strike our mind and guess what’s the perfect word.....May be " Most MEMORABLE........!!!!!"
Since, last 2-3 months we all have heard from ANUP about this place. He kept telling everyone that this is very beautiful place and everyone will enjoy a lot. We will have fun etc etc etc. And if some one would say him that I don’t think I will be able to walk so much or is there very much to walk or climb??? can I manage it??? then anup had only one answer " Of course you can.... Preeti (Anup’s real sister) and Trupti (Swapnil / gopi's real sister) are coming. If they can walk then why cant you?

Everyone were excited about the trek because Anup used to tell about it very often.....
There were 50 members in all....The list goes as follows......The list is just for reference so that you can refer it and recall the person about whom any particular incident had been written here.....


The plan was to meet infront of krishna dining hall at 9.30 pm on 11th of june'2005 and from there we went to Bharthi vidyapeeth's gate to pick up some of us..... Anup asked to form a circle at krishna dining hall so that everyone would introduce them selves.... But that didn’t happened (as usual).

Forgot to write that anup also said that in rainy season the “ LEECHES “(Expressions of the face changed?? After reading leeches) come out so we will have to cancel this trek and if such thing happens we will go to Madhumakrand gadh.... Now let’s start the journey...
Everyone had their seat (no doubt allotted by ANUP).... Then started the fun.... Songs, Ads, Jokes (Pjs), Antaksharis and all that.... All enjoyed a lot.... till...someone encountered the puncture.... Even though we had to wait for some time no one even thought of the puncture (except the driver and some others) all were busy singing and enjoying...But nothing lasts forever...

As it took lot of time everyone felt little tired and started cursing the tyre or Neha (hope everyone knows that it was our bus name). The one thing one can’t forget is the burps...(its not even necessary to mention that it was MIHIR)...Sang a lot, talked a lot, laughed a lot...got bored n tired n slept. This sleep was the break. This sleep must be unforgetfull for shweta coz shewta reshma trupti and mihir slept on the same seat and mihir (As usual) had a non-stop chat with shewta....

Even when he was sleeping!!!! One more thing to remind... Vidul sir went to the drivers coach and slept on the so-called bed there and had very good sleep while others where trying to take some naps. Some of them got up early in the morning and saw the most beautiful view of mountains, n the river in the fog...and also captured it into their cameras...We stopped at Bamnoli (is it the right name for the place????)
Everyone got fresh and had their breakfast...


Mean while 2 members of wanderers group went to take the permission. Everyone got ready and when we were about to leave ANUP again asked to form a circle...Ravi repeated the same dialog that cant we form rectangle... Then we had the introduction session.... Thappa gave the best introduction. He spoke in Marathi. Another interesting introduction was by Vidul. There we came to know that we haven’t got permission...
But still as the wandrers came there since11 years they allowed us to go there on condition that we should not shout at all n walk silently.... NO smoking, No throwing papers, plastics bottles (I mean water bottles...what did you thought??) Etc. We were supposed to give this rubbish to any of volunteers.... n our bags too if we got tired or exhausted. Then the next waiting session...First one was the puncture one, 2nd this one waiting for the boat and then waiting in the boats. We got divided into 3 boats...

In one of the boats were ujwal, salil, shilpa, snehal, ashwini (both), anup, shreepad, damodar, sandip, abhay, trupti, ravi, jeetendra.... They had fun playing direction games, listening rather tolerating preeti’s, Ravi’s ujwal’s n sandip's jokes. Then shreepad introduced a new game in which everyone had to tell their them n any of their quality then the person sitting next to the candidate who said about him will repeat the first persons name n quality n add his name n quality to the same list n this continues till the last person repeats everyone’s name n quality including his/ hers....

Then played dum sharats (??? spelling wrong hai) art...
Don’t even ask the names of the movies told by Ravi.... he was the only person who saw those movies...
This was the situation in one of the boat...where the people in the boat didn’t even came to know that we were at Wasota...
Same must be the situation in the other two boats...

Then again a circle was formed where tanmay sir repeated his instructions.... n said no one will even try to walk in front of him n after " ". Then the slowest walking group was formed which included (of course) trupti, preethi, sanita, ashwini, anup swapnil (gopi) n others...It was a very beautiful view there.

Got bored?? Reading all this stuff.... ok lest wrap it up...Everyone started walking n were enjoying themselves till someone found the leech climbing his shoes n shouted that there are many leeches here so watch out for them n walk as fast as possible...There was no as such group everyone started walking towards the fort...There was a halt at Hanuman temple...The leeches were the worst creatures someone would have ever seen....

We heard lots of rumors that they suck blood only from exposed wounds...and all that stuff. But that was wrong.... It sucks blood from the skin even if its not wounded.... After seeing that ANUP n some other decided to stay at the temple n let others come back.... But there was no roof to the temple n they didn’t expected this so continued the journey.

Now some of the incidents...One of the leech was sucking blood from snehals leg....
Ashwini saw it n shouted!! Snehal didn’t even cared to see it n who was taking out the leech from her leg...She was quite frightened n sweating...Actually she was also crying but no one could differentiate between her tears n sweat.... (And she told this) Quite funny. Right??? Then comes ashwini in her style E apan nahi jau apan parat jau mala nahi jaicha mi nai yenar...n started weeping...Everyone were just watching btheir shoes n others shoes n helping out others to take out that weird blood suckers....

It was just like walking thru hell...Thappa said that this was the first trek in his lifetime where he was seeing his feet n the leeches than the beautiful scenes surrounding him... Everyone afraid n confused n were walking n walking n walking...Then came ANUP (second one) who said he cant even walk a step further so some one had to literally carry ANUP on his shoulders.... with him were swap nil (gopi) n others. All were dispersed no groups n nothing some were in front of tanmay and after "..."
Some reached the fort first no prizes to guess who were the first two girls to reach the top...."Trupti n preeti".... The journey was as if never ending.... Then as soon as all arrived at the top n started taking their lunch started the rain.... Everyone just ate whatever they had in their hands without thinking of anything.... some mixed the 'chutney in curd" some one mixed pickle in curd some rolled the theplas n ate it....

. Then tanmay said that we will have to walk down as soon as possible, avoiding the leeches to climb our feet n with normal speed...While coming down someone again shouted n that was the warning signal that leeches started attacking us.... There was a sigh of relief on every ones face when they sat on the ground. Then we had photo session’s n checking whether there were any leeches remaining...

Swapnil was the one who had doubt that there something in his shoes n he took out his shoes 6-7 times n there was nothing...at last he decided that if nothing come out this time he himself will chew his feet.... After the photo session everyone headed for the boat. In the last boat were sandip Ravi shashi snehal etc etc.a leech was sucking blood from shashis foot n got swelled. Ravi or someone threw that creature and there was blood on the boat where the leech fell.
Then rave crushed it with his shoes n there came a small fountain of shushes blood.... still it didn’t dies so someone cutter the leech n they sang happy birth day... this was not the end... one part of the leech again took out head to capture something...The most horrible thing was to see the leech sucking our blood. Then everyone reached the hotel n everyone checked if there were any leeches.... The one who got suffered were "..." sanika, ashwini, vidul, Ravi, snehal, shashi n others including swapnil (he didn’t accepted it)...

Then we had dinner and started our journey back to pune...everyone tired n happy to get out of the leech region. Then the back seaters had some fun...by singing songs on one another teasing one another... then they sang some songs n then everyone slept...Snehal dreamt that


Then was the farewell session first at the bharthi vidyapeths gate, then sahakar nagar n Krishna dining hall.... Thus, ended the trek...We don’t know whether we enjoyed the trek or the trek enjoyed us but it was one of the most memorable trek...

Three cheers for leeches ooops……!! wanderers, rangers and all of us.... hip hip...Hurray hip hip hurray.... hip hip HURRAY...


11 Th JUNE WASOTA TREK ///////// by: Priti Kaparthi