Hogenakkal and Krishnagiri Trip:

Trip Members:

Abhinandan Jain, Monika Jain, Anubhuti Jain, Ashutosh Jain, Mayank Jain, Nitin Jain,  Ashish Jain, Rupesh Jain, Surabhi Jain,  Ajay Jain, Megha Maiya

Date: June 17th 2012

About Place: 

Hogenakkal Falls is a waterfall on the river Cauvery It is located in Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu, about 180 km (110 mi) from Bangalore and 46 km (29 mi) from Dharampuri town.It is sometimes referred to as the "Niagara of India".

Shree Parshwa Padmavathi Shaktipeet Tirth Dham Krishnagiri concentrates on the worship of Sri Parshwanath Bhagwan, the 23rd Thirthankar of the 24 Thirthankars in the holy dharma of Jainism. It is located 90 km from Bangalore and around 70 km from Hogenakkal.

Trip XP:

Hogenakkal and Krishnagri Trip was my first meet with KTJH group. Since I was new to the group I had asked one of my colleagues Megha to join trip to give me a company. She agreed, seats were vacant then done. Here I started my first adventurous trip with KTJH.

Morning 3:30 was the time given by Abhinandan jain (only known person in the group)….But cab reached at 4:45am at my place. For about 1 hour I was speaking with my colleague Megha that how we r going to spend our whole day with this unknown group. But jaise hi 5:45 hua n kuch light hue Mayank Jain and Ajay Jain (Hosts) started with the introduction round to make new members comfortable. The time for introduction format Demo which was given by  Abhinandan Jain( ab hamare permanent demonstrator).

A very interesting and tough task (for new members) was to remember the full intro of each n every person. And at the end of the intro there was a questionnaire round and jo answer nahi diya ban gaya BAKRA(lol). Thankfully I managed to remember it and bach gayi. Then we started playing antakshari that ended without any looser kyonki both sides were winner.

Reached Hogennakkal at around 12:30... it was too hot outside.  Mayank Jain was convincing everyone saying:apni Mr. weather se setting hai wait! Abhi barish hogi….We somehow believed on his saying…but was looking impossible…Losing Rupesh Jain’s camera at that time was really disappointing but being senior in the group he asked us to continue with the masti without worry. We managed to get two boats to cross River Cauvery to reach a small island. That was a awesome experience…dar laga without live jacket but masti ne dar ko hara diya…..As we started for island suddenly Mr. weather jaise khush ho gaye hamari masti se n started drizzling...Saw Ravan movie shooting spot on the way to island...In that island wo Cauvery me swimming ka xp to mazedar tha….Post that dupki competition among Ashutosh, Monika and Mayank Jain.

After fulltoo masti in Cauvery water we started for Krishnagiri (A very beautiful Shwetamber Jain temple). On the way to Krishnagiri stared bhakti n bhajans n reached their by 7:00(were late so no arrangement of food). Mandirji me bhakti….tabla by ashutosh jain n bhajan by Abhinandan Jain n Ajay Jain ( tum se lagi lagan).

 N here started feedback session n monika n abhinandan fight ka first scene dekhne mila. Since we were lit late so they both were fighting kisne late kiya n all. Reached Bangalore around 9:00 pm and had dinner in Kataria BTM layout and back to PG.

At last mil gaya mujhe a mast group in Bangalore a home away from home :-P....

Anubhuti Jain