i dnt think the gates r gonna opn soon....there is very little water in the reservoir

thanks bro.....have a wonderful trip

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Day 2:

Well guys, back with day2 log after a brief delay.....
The next day i woke up early at around 6 and made some casual phone calls to friends and my mom......Others woke at 8am... The previous nite i enquired from a home guard if we could ride our bikes till Ishtakameshwari temple....the answer was a simple no....only commander jeeps could do it...so we had to skip that program....

Then i had another thought...Akkamahadevi caves...made up our minds to go there.....
the only problem is we have to take a boat ride for 16km (sad that we cant take our bikes). To reach the boating point,we had to reach patalaganga first..you can either take the ropeway for rs.40/- to n fro or take the steps.......ride to the caves is rs.160/- per head. our boat started at 10.30am....the journey took about an hour...Meanwhile there was a muslim guide, Basha who was explaining the hindu mythologies so fluently i was amazed...

We we arrived at the caves there was a little trekking to do....the path is bit risky, so old people better avoid it and stay in the boat..The entrance to the cave is formed out of a single huge block of stone...amazing...

Now for the tricky part...all of us had to buy a candle so that we can walk carefully into the 60 foot deep caves(pitch dark)...As we moved furthur into the caves it gets bit suffocating...little difficult for the obese people as we have to stoop a little and walk sideways...touch the small sivalinga and return outside..i made it with ease, but my friends were not so lucky....they had to struggle a bit..

It was 3pm by the time we returned to the boating point, so we were behind schedule to reach home....checked out of the room...put on the bags...started home.....

Descent down the ghat road was equally exciting...averaging 60kmph by the time we were in dornala, stopped at Haritha highway resort for lunch...but there was nothing except tea and coffee..skipped that place...

i was a little low on air pressure in my front wheel...none of the compressors near dornala were functional...so continued like that for about 40km until i found a working one....had lunch in a nearby small hotel, which didnt even have spoons...

We took some breaks in between and reached home by 9.45pm.....

BTW, it was raining throughout out return journey until we reached narasraopet....driving in rain in ghat road is a very memorable feeling for me....

My 3yr old karizma returned an average of 35.6kmpl in this trip...Happy......
Completed my part...Now its your work guys...replies......

Ajay...

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