Wednesday, January 03, 2007

A trip to Nagarjuna Sagar


Hmmmm ! Atlast I was free from the mundane chores of office work,client meetings and bosses' dressings rather dressing downs. I had applied for leave from the 18Th of Dec till the 29th of Dec. Very smart indeed to coincide it with Saturdays and Sundays.
Laziness had already taken me into its vice like grip and I was enjoying every minute of the lavish extravaganza called idle time. My apartment doesn't boast of a 24 hrs water facility and we have to get up early morning everyday to fill it into the storage tanks built at every conceivable corner of the house. This was the only irritant in my leisure.
I had actually planned to go on a short trip to the South East Asia or shall we say Singapore & Malaysia with my wife Sunita. This would have been my first trip abroad if you don't consider my visit to Nepal. Unfortunately my wife's passport had not yet come from the Regional Passport Office where I had submitted it for renewal. I could see the glee in my children's' eyes that we were not going abroad. Thus the trip to Nagarjuna Sagar took shape on 28th Dec as an appeasement.
We reached N Sagar at 3-30 p.m and rushed to the AP Tourism guest house. I walked into the reception with lots of air & dignity only to be snubbed by shrill cries of "No Rooms available till 2nd Jan". I felt a cold cramp in my already queasy tummy and rushed out to my family, waiting expectantly to be ushered inside. Rather poor me was hushed out.
A good Samaritan told us of a place called the Project House which was a nice place to stay for families. I made a dash towards the place lest I be turned away for coming late by 10 minutes. Luck prevailed and we got a nice cosy accommodation. For me the next 24 hrs was an absolute gastronomic delight at the local mess of the Project House. In between we all went around the famed project of Nagarjuna Sagar and had a darshan of Ethipothla waterfalls.( Photo enclosed is of the falls )
On day 2 after lunch we all trudged to the Project House and started back to Hyderabad.
Homecoming was quite irksome to find the Speedpost person standing with Sunita's renewed passport at my doorstep !!!!!!!!!!!

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