Through hairpins and speed breakers

If I would have titled this blog post 'Through hairpins' .. first impression would have been 'this person must have struggled to get through some girl's lousy hair while sitting in a park'
Hence the word speed breakers..any seasoned driver who has driven on ghats or any kid , boy, manwho has played Need for Speed in his life would know I am talking abt a road trip.
Road trip with hairpins and speed breakers which would better qualify as car breakers .
This was a trip to SriSailam which was a last gasp attempt to save us from a boring weekend at Hyderabad. We called the resort at Suryalanka..was fully booked..so SriSailam it was .. full n final... leave in morning.. come bk the same day.
one of our frnds decided to sleep.... so dint come...7 in the morning 4 of us were standing besides an old Toyota Qualis, with only Telugu songs casettes in it,
We got a battery operated speaker, and the only option was my iPod which had nothing but Hard Rock music in it..... decided to play it neways...
frnds always hate me for the kind of music I listen to..if only they can listen to the music as I do..understand it the way I understand.. minutely noticing the drum beats, the bass guitar giving the background effect, leads combined with rythm and distortion.. u will love rock music if u notice these complex and very intense combinations that make the adrenaline pump faster...

so neways..the trip started off slowly... with a lot of traffic.. we came out of Hyd...
One thing I have noticed about Andhra Pradesh is.. it is a highly underdeveloped state... with the exception of the exorbitant Hyderabad... and to and extent.. let me emphasize.. only to an extent.. Vizag andVijaywada.. . No decent road, small villages with kaccha rastas , no decent place to eat for 300 KM...youcan easily see why the suicide rate of farmers is highest in AP.... it is really in a bad state...

Other thing you can notice is that if at a village in AP. you scream LAXMIII... 7 out of 10 girls would looktowards you...this input was courtesy of my Uncle ..Kirit !! .. just in case you thought I
actually screamed Laxmiii at Village....maybe he did !!

So there we were in the Qualis... out came the playing cards.. where every time we hit a bump all our cardswere exposed.... was fun though.. playin cards... not the bumping part

We were not able to believe that there was no decent or even an average place to eat all along the way...nd we were hungry... so we stopped in a small room sized Udipi where we had some hopeless brkfast.. we were better off hungry is what we realized.

Yes ..third thing you would notice about AP. Every village has a place called Udipi hotel.

Then came the Jungle....the SriSailam Tiger Reserve.. only animal we saw except ourselves were cows..
We reached the Dam... decent water level and very funny circular boats..lot of weird music being played..

4th thinkg you will notice about AP ... mind blowing music..( and I mean mind blowing in a negative connotation)... on top of that.. grown men in questionable clothing dancing as if they are having a seizure.

and the round around the dam is actually crazy.... nothing but hairpin curves..you contantly keep going up the hill along the hairpins..and I was really takin pity on the driver..witha car like an old battered Qualis with no power steering.. it was like a gym session for him..

15 hairpins atleast.. I am not exaggerating.

The temple was nice.. I came to know that it is a Shiv Mandir which is regarded as one of the 12 'JyotHirlingams' , the crowd was not massive ..

Observation number 5...South Indians will never improve....I mean.. 'JyoTHI' and 'teek hai bai' ... they have a serious problem with the alphabet H .

I came back from a mahabaleshwar trip yesterday ..visited the famous temple over there too....and the same though came into my mind ..same one which came to my mind in SriSailam.. which is ..what to say.when you are in a temple...I mean.. yeah keep me family same and dont destroy the world in 2012 !! this is what I say usually.. not sure what people do stading there for 20 mins...
For those of you who know me...I am not the most religious guys.. an atheist who likes visiting peacefulplaces of worship be it a Church, Temple, Dargah or a Gurdwara....
People behave so formally in temples.. they r like in their best manners.. being quite.. aware of the crowdaround..a bit weird .. I just dont feel comfortable in a crowded temple...

Darshan over.. time to freak out... every taxi driver and rickshaw wala would point you towards Apurva hotel..the only place where u get decent food in SriSailam.. had some good Andhra thalis.. lots of sambar andoh yes an awesome matka kulfi.. I mean the packing as well as taste was awesome.. I really wanted to carrythe littke kullad/matka home with me to have tea in the mitti ka bartan.. but couldnt carry it all throughout the journey.

neways,..next was a cool ropeway ride into the lake and boat trip till near the dam... it was awesome..theview from the ropeway and feeling the cool winds while in the boat... u can actually book a speed board for500 Rs. and go for a very fast ride !!

Time to go back.. the resort looked good and a couple of us really wanted to stay back and leave the next day.. but the others wanted to go back home to their Momma... so had to leave...
my friends grabbed a bunch of beers and had a talkitive journey back to Hyd... went to a frnds place.. hadsome awesome home made Rajma.... and crashed .......

What a Gr8 Saturday. Got a traveler's soul... but not the best company when it comes to going out andenjoying.. everyone wants to sleep...

You get one shot at life.. why waste it by sleeping !!

Bhavin