Wait… it was not all that easy…The day before the trip, Prashant, Sangita and I had an hour long conference call which was basically for deciding the schedule for trip but had more of argument as to why we should go to someshwar … :-) And as the end result of that really long conference call, yet again the plan as to where to go on Saturday and where on Sunday was not freezed, even after we started or journey…
Apart from this being my first trip with Kumz, I can’t decide what other factors contributed most for my excitement for this trip… break from the hectic work schedule or the idea of adventure… I sure could not concentrate on anything else that entire week…
Rain Gods were also part of this trip and never made us feel left out!!!! It played the key role in the change of so called plan to go to Agumbe first and then to Sringeri to the other way round… this was one of those plans which were not approved of during the conference call but as we all know here, “We propose and rains dispose!!!” 
After a brief break, few of us decided to visit the temple in Sringeri whereas rest of them decided to go there on the way back to
Time for breakfast…. And guess wat!! We had a plan for this too…We had hot n delicious homemade idlis (reheated in rice cooker) ... Wondering where we could reheat? Of course….we had carried food n rice cooker along...thanks to Prashant and Sangita for this [:-)]
As per the changed plan, we resumed our journey to Agumbe, for which all of us were eagerly waiting for.... We had rented out rooms at Mallya Residency (I’m sure it doesn’t have to do anything with UB Group ;D), only hotel in that small village....
We headed towards Hebri looking for Nisargadhama or Sitanadi Nature Camp... Nisargadhama, very true to its name is a well maintained camp area amidst the nature and on the banks of the wild waters of 
We waited at the Nisargadhama till the rafts and the instructors returned from the water who had taken another group of people…We took out the camera and clicked pictures of anything and everything around and for some music, we poured our music requests to the official singer of the trip Ms. Nidhi Udupa who was kind enough not to get irritated by our non stop requests and gave us the pleasure of enjoying the wonderful voice and soothing songs with the perfect background... the nature… the sound of the water flowing in the river, birds chirping once in a while and our own koel (Nidhi) singing classic songs ... What more could one ask for!!!
The only thing that could and did get us out of that heaven of music was the arrival of the rafts and the instructors… The instructors were, soon back on job… We were made to sign on a sheet of papers which as usual said, they are not responsible for our lives… Though hardly any one of us knew swimming, we did not hesitate to sign out our lives on that piece of paper!!! Hehe… Then began the instructions which introduced us to the terms used while rafting… like “All Forward”, “All back”, “left forward” etc… and it was time for the instructions which really freaked me out… the ones which we were supposed to follow when something out of control happens!!! Scary that was!! b What the heck… after all I have come so far … now I was all set to break the fear of that childhood experience of almost drowning… The safety instructions were something that was heard to most attentively… never in school or college have I heard to anything with so much attention!!!
Soon we all got into our rafts and were all set to raft in the rapids of Sita river…Myself, Kumar, Monty, Trishna, Nidhi, Amit and our friendly instructor in one raft… Sangita, Prashant, Lawerence, Shylaja and Hari in the other with of course with some one special whom Prashant met over there…
We all religiously and with a slight fear initially (at least I... don’t know about others) followed the instructions given by our respective instructors in the raft and rowed past few small rapids … soon we came across our first huge rapid which gave us the taste of the wild waters… it was amazing to feel that you are taming the wild waters to go past those rapids and whirlpools in a river which is flowing with a fury on the rocks and amidst the bushes on just a air filled plastic raft with a pair of paddles with each one of us… It really gets the adrenaline rush in the body… In simple words, it was truly amazing and out of the world experience!!! 
Our instructor did everything to make us comfortable in the water… he insisted on nidhi to be a non stop radio in our raft after he heard her sing once… he wanted us to get the taste of all the fun one can have in water… he made us all stand up and balance on the raft which didn’t happen for long and all except nidhi n myself landed in the waters at the end of that game… he so wanted to overturn the raft so that we get to experience the other extreme of the rafting experience but I was against it…. We were made to float in water where there was no rapids..
On the other raft, though the instructor (kallu) was not adventurous enough, the people in the raft were… we had sangita and shylaja who kept jumping into the river to float every now and then… sangita in fact lost in contact with the raft and kept floating away along the river till their raft went for rescue… on the other hand, Hari’s paddle some how got the tired of him and took its own course in the river which they finally managed to get it back… When we finished our half way of the 25km stretch, we took a brief break near a bridge and Monty shifted to the other raft from where he and hari were thrown out of of the raft during one of those fierce rapids… It was truly an adventurous and thrilling experience…
After the rafting, we were not let go easily... we were made to carry the raft which was definitely a lot heavier than what we had imagined it to be… adding on to it, most of us didn’t have footwear and had to carry that heavy raft on rocky path which was one hell of acupressure experience!!! 
It was almost dinner time by the time we got back to our hotel… For dinner we had rice and chapatti which was a treat after all the tiredness we had taking back from the rafting…We did play a game of cards to end the day till the power forced us to hit the bed… The cards game was a serious one till shylaja joined the game… hehe
The next morning was a cloudy, drizzly morning which started with a leachy welcome… 
Lawerence and hari got the first bite from leach… It was just a beginning of one long leachy day as we started the leachy trekking as termed by Trishna…we had planned to trek down till the Bharkana falls… we took a local guide along to show us the way.. We got a chance to see how dense the forest there was…
The trek started off from a small stream, then through those small bushes and making through the tall trees getting denser by the mile… As there were a lot of leaches all through the way, we had to keep rushing to keep them away from us or stop every now and then to sprinkle salt on them to get rid of them and some of them were busy taking pictures…cos of all this, the group split into two and half of us followed the guide to the falls but the rest of them were left behind … We reached the place from where we should have seen the falls but it was so misty and was raining so much that we found it really hard to spot the falls… After waiting for a while the clouds managed to clear the view just enough to catch the glimpse of the falls…
Even after a long time, the other group hadn’t caught up with us.. we got worried and headed back to the place where we started and just half way we heard voices and realized it was the rest of them who were lost…Finally we all met and got back to the TT and headed to the next falls.. This time around, we could get into the water… All of us were really obsessed with the leach bites and became paranoid of it too…All those leachy feeling vanished after we got on to the roof of the TT and had a roller coaster ride sitting on the roof…It was truly an awesome ride as it was raining and we were going through the narrow roads with trees everywhere, instructing each other in the rafting instructions like “left bend”, “right bend”, “All bend” … it is one of the best rides I have had so far in my life!!!
We were almost reaching the end of the trip before which we had nice snacks at hotel and left to Someshwar… From there we headed to the Sringeri temple where we had our dinner after the darshan (for some of us it was the other way around…) Then began our journey back to 
For those of u who are wondering y this is named "Whats the plan".... Its one question which was for some odd reason asked to sangita everytime any one had to speak any thing to her all through the trip and believ me.. she never gave up getting irritated with it!!! "Whats the plan sangita??"
