Way to enter new year.... WEEKEND RISK
To laugh is
to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
~ William Arthur Ward
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
~ William Arthur Ward
On Saturday,
Dec 31st, we went to Pearl Valley, a popular picnic spot not too far from
Bangalore. From our experience with Nandi Hills, another picnic spot about 60
km north of Bangalore, we knew that it would be crowded there on a Sunday.
It took about 90 minutes to ride the 40 km from Bangalore to Pearl Valley. The road goes in the general direction of Electronic city. But Pearl Valley is a little bit further down the road.
We parked the car we hired after a long BARGIN with driver(Suresh) near a little restaurant that overlooks the entire valley. From there you have to descend a couple of hundred stairs to reach the bottom of the valley. At first, our driver wanted to stay with the car, but we were able to persuade him to go back and come again as we thought of spending more time.
At the bottom we found lots of rocks under shady trees. There was a waterfall coming down the rocky side of the valley. It was a rather small waterfall. Later we learned that it is a lot bigger at other times in the year. Bad timing!
A bunch of monkeys appeared. One very adventurous monkey went to the bags of the girls splashing around in the water and looked through them. The monkey knew exactly what it wanted. Before anybody could shoo it away, it grabbed a mango and climbed into the nearest tree.
The monkeys were not the only animals around. There were also a lot of the jungle crows. You will find these in numbers everywhere here. And they can make quite some noise. Vyshak took out his camera and recorded the sounds we could hear.
Of course there was also a little temple here. It seems to be impossible to go anywhere in India without having one of those, too.
It took about 90 minutes to ride the 40 km from Bangalore to Pearl Valley. The road goes in the general direction of Electronic city. But Pearl Valley is a little bit further down the road.
We parked the car we hired after a long BARGIN with driver(Suresh) near a little restaurant that overlooks the entire valley. From there you have to descend a couple of hundred stairs to reach the bottom of the valley. At first, our driver wanted to stay with the car, but we were able to persuade him to go back and come again as we thought of spending more time.
At the bottom we found lots of rocks under shady trees. There was a waterfall coming down the rocky side of the valley. It was a rather small waterfall. Later we learned that it is a lot bigger at other times in the year. Bad timing!
A bunch of monkeys appeared. One very adventurous monkey went to the bags of the girls splashing around in the water and looked through them. The monkey knew exactly what it wanted. Before anybody could shoo it away, it grabbed a mango and climbed into the nearest tree.
The monkeys were not the only animals around. There were also a lot of the jungle crows. You will find these in numbers everywhere here. And they can make quite some noise. Vyshak took out his camera and recorded the sounds we could hear.
Of course there was also a little temple here. It seems to be impossible to go anywhere in India without having one of those, too.
We left this waterfall to follow the water further into the valley. Soon we reached a quiet little pool with big rocks where the water was flowing in. The pool had the typical red-brown colour of the earth. It was a wonderful place where you could sit the whole day and relax. At least it was quiet on a Saturday. I can imagine that this place is packed on Sundays when we all Indians don't have to work...
Being a popular picnic place also has its dark sides. You find litter everywhere! This was compensated by the colourful butterflies flying around our heads.
Further down the valley the little trail became ever more invisible. We had a beautiful view of the surrounding hills. Turning back we could see the two waterfalls cascading down into the valley. High up on the hillside was the restaurant we started from. It looked so far away and high up, it seemed it would take hours to get back there.
Since it was a beautiful day with the breeze passing through, the ascend of the stairs made us sweat a lot. Saurab had to take several rests along the way. Finally reaching the top of hill we felt relax and had some Snacks at top of hill. Thinking of coming down from the same route we would have reach next year 2012. But Rahul was quite smart finding the short cut to reach back to restaurant.
Back at the top we went to the little restaurant and sat outside on the terrace enjoying the view over Pearl Valley.
We thought of having some tea or coffee but to our bad luck till the time we come back it was closed and after forcing a lot he gave us some water and Cold drinks.
Finally while waiting for the our driver to come back we were seating nearby and was missing one of the friend Rohit but his incompleteness was fulfil by a cute puppy who was too selective in choosing his food which is same with Rohit
On the way back to Bangalore we came through the little village Anekal. As in any little village we passed, life was taking place on the streets. The driver had to use the horn a lot to be able to get through the little streets. and that’s was the weekend spend in a way taking RISK.
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