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We were 9 guys and place was around 95km from pune towards Konkan. D day was Saturday,16th oct. There were two things about this trip which excited me the most.
a. Rafting for 12 kms. - Good enough distance
b. They allow us to swim in river - never got an opportunity to swim in natural water. And being a water lover and a swimmer was ready to jump in anytime :)
This is how our day went.....
1. Me, super duper excited gul...slept at 12 on friday night and woke up at 3:30 am :) couldn't sleep then..Friend picked me up from home at 5:00 am. Early mornings are just so amazing!!!
2. We had to reach there by 8:30 am as per the guidelines. Reason - River has water but not the heavy flow. There is a DAM near by and TATA uses dam water to drive their turbine plant so they release water into river sometime between 9 am to 1 pm. and so rafting timings completely depend on that.
3. Reached the place sharp 8:20 am to find out rafting time is 10:30 a.m today:)
4. Played with doggy and fishes around!!
5. Rafts had capacity of 10 person. so it was just perfect for us. While we were killing the time, guys got rafts ready for us!!
5. Rafting was fun...we had few amazing curves, though not sharp enough to turn our rafts down..
6. The thing i didn't like much was our guide, He wasn't confident about us and till the end he kept most of the control with him :(
I mean his attitude was right, we all were learners and he can't trust us! But we all were so enthu that we can't accept this :)
7. And as soon as we reached the point where water flow was prettly slow, he asked us to stand on the raft and then smarty gave the push and most of us fell down in river to enjoy it :)
8. And 1.5/2 kms of swimming....I just loved it!!! I mean only water, not the slightest fear!!!
9. Best part was, three of us did pretty fast swimming and reached ahead of all to realize that now we have to go back to the raft which was around half a km away. So had to swim opposite of water flow..Wow it was just awesome. and i gave good competition :) Did swimming almost after 4 years and it was simply WOW!!!
A big simle came naturally :P
10. Din't had anything since morning so all were very very hungry and no one had wallet. We kept everything in cars and to reach there we had to travel another 8 kms using public transport.
11. But yes,could borrow some money from our taxi driver and had Wadapav :) God bless him!!!!
12. Tiered us, got fresh and had heavy lunch on the way back home!!
13. Had a refreshing nap in the car :)
14. Reached home around 5 after dropping friends....Great!! Awesome feeling....tiered but very fresh...power of nature, isn't it???
