Trip to Rishikesh

Rishikesh for me is one of the recommended places for Escapade, Meditation, Easing, Camping and fun time with friends. I was damn exhilarated and thrilled for this trip when me and vineet had a telephonic conversation to have a Weekend Getaway. Although the preparation got started from 1st March 2014 (from my end) however got executed on 19th Mar 2014 finally.



Vineet, Shilpi and me, we all have been planning since a long time to have a trip apart from VD (Aka- Vaishno Devi) :P but never got succeeded. But this time finally we had not only planned something else from VD we had even effectuated it as well :) ;). And trust me i am so delighted that finally we did it :P :P

We distributed the responsibilities like, i was responsible for Camp Bookings, Tempo booking was done by Ankur, Vineet and shilpi bought Snacks, Shweta bought fruits and sweets :), Abhinav and Sarkar came that's more than enough LOL :D



We started our journey on 19th morning, where we all had the strict instructions from our Responsible fellow (VINEET) :p to get up at 3:30 am.. i know the timings are weird  but trust me none of us found it absurd may be because of the level of zealousness.



This time something which really helped us in the coordination was WatsApp Group "Trip to Rishikesh".



Let me now introduce the viewers with our group members without whom the trip wouldn't have been a triumphant.






1) Nimisha Arora- (The Admin) LOL :p
2) Manas Chandra- The Talented & the carefree one ;)
3) Vineet Gautam- The Responsible one :)
4) Shilpi Manchanda- The Team Leader (Paddle Fuurward one) :P
5) Kumar Abhinav- Our Photographer ;)
6) Anikendra Das Chaudhury- Our Sarkar urf Sanskar :P
7) Ankur Kalia- (Don't go by his surname, he has a fair complexion) :P
8) Shweta Sharma- (Here you can go by her surname, she was shy ;) )
9) Rahul Suneja- (Our Khatron ke khiladi, Barefoot king :P & the most amiable person in the group :P)

*Rahul was the one for whom i can say we were known because of him ;)

Finally the journey to our destination got started by 3:45am and we left Delhi and NCR by 5:00am. This was my 4th time to Rishikesh and every time i have appreciated  it more. This time i traveled through a Tempo Traveller, which certainly gave us the feeling of "Movie- Swades". 

We didn't even realize how the time got passed, as we all were so immersed in playing the games like UNO, Dumshrads, Buzz and guess the Song and Tambola/Housie.



And not too forget munching too, where no one knew that Sarkar and Abhinav didn't brush :P :P



Dumshrads helped us in knowing some great movie names like victory dollar instead of vicky donor (Courtsey- Shilpi) :P...

Opposition was so strong that they even started initiating the movies of there own like Chanku instead of Chamku (Courtsey- Ankur) :p.

Lately Google GOD arrived and gave some strength and vitality to our losing team ;)



Someone has rightly said that Money can be a best Motivator for anyone (but yes not every time :P).



Tambola and Uno were a success and kept us busy for a longer duration.



We even took a small halt in between as nature was calling us :P :P and also wanted to eat something as most of us didn't get the time for breakfast.





While travelling we even realized that our Chauffeur is not less than a "Grand Pa" who taught us to pay attention at the immediate surroundings instead of playing or listening to songs :P... Although it didn't bother anyone of us ;) ;)



Finally the time arrived, after surpassing all the hurdles like Roller coaster ride, Nausea 





and Trekking along with the Baggage. We reached at our camps by 12:30pm. I wanted to combine our rafting experience in Rishikesh with Camping and hopefully everyone else agreed to the same as camping is a group activity. So we all accepted camping with rafting tour.  

At our first sight of the River Ganga and our river side camp, we forgot all our tiredness.



We had to cross the river to reach our camps, Raft came and helped us to finally reach our camps.



After completing all the documentations etc, we all got entered in our camps and we rushed out instantly because they all were blazing hot. We then decided to relax at the common area and also had lunch with some snacks to suffice our hunger.



We lately asked the organizer to arrange a Raft as we wanted to finish the rafting before dark.

Finally the time arrived for THE RAFTING, and we all were set with our sunscreen lotions and sun protection gels ;) to get rid of Sun Tan



Rafting was not a first time for most of us but ambiance and avidity made us feel like a kid.



We signed a form before White water rafting that says : ” I am responsible for myself. In case of any injuries or death, I will not blame the camp ! ” :D it was so damn scary :P :P

All were active at the time of instructions on how to sail, swim and survive in rapids we started the water rafting. The water rafting is such an amazing sport, when cold water splatters on your face, the feeling is breathtaking, when your boat inclines near the cliff, when buzzing sound of wind passes through your ear drums, when you look around and see the beauty of the nature and that feeling when you see the rapids ahead of your boat and your paddles doesn't find water because your raft is in the air.







Ganga Water is so chilling that you cant control your scream at the first jump :P :P

And how can anyone forgets the commands by the instructor- 

• Team Paddle Forward, which was sounding like paddle Fuurward because of there (Instructor's) accent.
• Ganga Maiya ki... ki... ki... JAI :p
• Chir mir Chir mir dhoom dharaka ;)
• Yo Baby Yo Baby :P :P
• High Tide
• Get Down

And some of the commands got invented by our Team Leader "Shilpi: :P

• Team ATTACK ;) Where we started splashing water on other raft members :P and they were also reciprocating it.
• Paddle Fuuurward
• Ganga Maiya KIIII KIIII :p :p (Im sure this had really made the instructor ashamed of his instructions  LOL :D)

Personally i just loved one instruction and that was Team JUMP :p Body surfing ....

After completing our rafting we helped the instructor in putting the raft back. We were drenched and wanted to parch ourselves under the sun.



Finally we reached our camps, it started thundering and drizzling. It was cold, we rushed to our camps and quickly took off our wet clothes. We had our dinner and got our self busy with a current hot topic Politics "Abki baar Modi Sarkar" :P and trust me every group was busy in discussing the same. :P :P

Lately we got settled in one camp and one by one all  the female candidates got dozed because of fatigue unlike the male candidates who were too busy in a discussion of Aghori's and Ancient science.

I woke up around 6.30am or 7am in the morning when someones footfall scared me. There was someone who was collecting the Lanterns from outside the camps. I forgot to mention the camps near River side at Rishikesh don't have the amenities like electricity and mobile networks. And trust me you won't even feel like using them either. 

The morning at Rishikesh is so pleasant that you could feel the gentle breeze cooling you and enlightening your soul while walking along the river. We couldn't stop our self from clicking some great pictures around, with some great poses too :P

Meditation Baba ;) :P

Yo Yo Samadhi :P :P

Mediation with Chappals ;) ;)

We again enjoyed Body Surfing with some great dubkis from Shweta :P

Finally the time arrived when we had to pack our bags and had to leave :(  but we took so many unfathomable moments along with us which we will cherish forever.



Ending the post with a well written poem by Abhinav :)

Sailing over Rapids is not a game of a COWARD

All team move FORWARD.

We left some nice memories BACK

ALL TEAM ATTACK.

Sarkar's head deserves a CROWN

All team get DOWN.

Adventures gave us GOOSE BUMPS

All team JUMP.

I am now falling less of words :P to describe the enjoyment and Masti we all had. Looking forward for our next trip now ;) till then Ganga Maiya kiiiiiii..... :)

PS:- The enjoyment didn't stop here as we still had the long journey ahead where in we again played multiple games and even shared our opinions about everyone :)