We struggled a lot inside the woods to make our way to patchi paadalam. After the long , tiring and thrilling journey we reached a valley with no big trees. Preciously no tress at all. There were only grasses, thick tall grasses those were grown like big bushes. Its almost our height, and you can feel the fresh grass smell. The grasses hurt us when we go through it. It is so rough enough to make scratches on our body. The worst part is the leeches hanging on the grasses.
Though the valley seems to be very beautiful to see from the other end, it’s the toughest path in our journey. The leeches on the tall grasses and the roughness of the grass that has grown with out any space between made it very difficult to cross. For crossing just more than a kilometer it took lots of effort. Two of my partners vomited and got exhausted in half the way due to the heat produced by grasses and de-hydration. We gave water and made them to rest in a little space made by us in-between the grasses.
We started again and reached the forest outpost way soon. That path made our life easy, it will lead us to the outpost. This is the same path which we left behind to escape from the elephants. We took a shortcut inside the woods to reach the path near the forest outpost. Since the forest way is made for the jeeps to come and it got such a long distance because of the steep mountains, we have taken a short path. Anyway, we have reached the path and now we can see the forest outpost from here.
The guide said that we have crossed half of the way to patchi paadalam, our PM screamed almost..”Whhhaatttt???!!!”. The guide smiled to us and said ,”Don’t worry sir. From here the way is good , only you have to walk upwards. I will assure you that the sceneries will be beautiful”. This gives us a little strength , now at least we don bother about the path and leeches. We were excited about that the guide said sceneries will be beautiful. Its already beautiful and our guide said it will be even more good.
Its true!! So far we can see its green and only green. Except the tall outpost seen in a distance its full green under the cloudy mountains. Now we are in good height and we can see that the clouds are floating around us. Though it is noon Its not sunny too. A pleasant weather and thankfully its not raining and the humidity is too good. Its not sweating, the temperature must be around 15 C only. A cool breeze with the clouds are washing us which is very refreshing. We enjoyed the moment and soon we reached the forest outpost.
The forest outpost is a 4 story height solid Iron tower which had a small watch room on top of it. Its built in a edge of a clip where one side it’s small hill with slops of grass and other side it is a deep valley. Beneath there it’s the dense forest. We climbed the forest outpost tower and reached the watch room, seems people use to make fire there. May be its for cold! We noticed we can climb on top of the room too, and we gone there also.
Now we are on top of the forest outpost. In a height where we can see the complete area where we came from, and 3 deep valley’s which made the place like a heaven. Such a beautiful sight. No words to explain. I have taken few picture from there, also a simple video which I have uploaded in the same post. We enjoyed the moment a lot. The clouds floating around us with almost freezing temperature made the tickly feelings. The wind which pierced through our jackets, the little drops of water left on us by the cloud, a place you cant see no humans other than you, a secured place on top of the jungle ..one and everything made us excited.
We sat there for some time, had some photo sessions. We started munching the snacks items we brought by really enjoying the ambience. The ambience you never get anywhere even you pay for it. We had some photo sessions and took some rest over there. We planned to continue our journey towards patchi paadalam. Our guide showed a valley across and a hill slide path going on it. Between the two valleys a elephant group was moving, we can see it from the top of the outpost.
Now we have to cross those ways shown by the guide in order reach the place patchi paadalam. Few of us got scared because of the distance and because of the elephant group. Now our group got divided into two and became small where one team decided to sit on the outpost itself and the other decided to reach patchi paadalam and come back. So the journey continues again.
where is the video?
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