Kolad: A new experience
This time it’s a nearby place with my girlies. Due to tight work schedules and many other things happening, we have decided to go out for 3 days instead of a week, coz that is the only option we have this time. As usual we look out for a place which is a bit of luxury, a new destination and lots of nature to be cuddled in.
Since I am from the travel industry I come across lots of places of this type. And since we didn’t have much time to plan and think about places, one place that stuck my mind was Kolad. Instantly we think of White water River rafting at Kolad.
Luxury is something we get after reaching there, but the travelling is just all about local coz none of us know how to drive a car and it’s always easier to board a train or a bus to reach our destination. So there we go. We boarded a local bus which took us to Kolad and it took almost 4 hrs to reach there and a local auto and lots of bargaining skills. We managed to reach the hotel. We were just awed to have a look at the huge room and opening the doors to the balcony. We already imagined ourselves with a cup of tea in our hands while catching up with each other in our pyjamas. Yes that’s what we do on our trips.
After getting fresh up and ordering our much awaited tea we took our seats but just then we realised we had our husbands and parents home worrying about our safety and to our dismay we checked our phones just to realise none of us had any network. So leaving our comfort zone behind we rushed to the owner to get some help with the network. But even he didn’t have any network. And after talking to him about the same, we came to know we had to really travel 3 kms to make a call. It was almost impossible to even think about walking that far to make a call. So we requested him to get a two wheeler or cycle or whatever he can help with and a bit quickly before it gets too dark as we were in the interiors of Kolad. In fact you can imagine how much remote we were that we literally had to go 3 kms away to get the network. To our luck one of his worker had an active (scooty) and agreed to lend us after thinking about 10 mins whether to give the keys or no. Finally he made his mind and gave us the keys. 3 on a scooty we left to find that particular tree where we were told we will get the network. And finally we got it.
We gave our husbands and parents the assurance we were okay and no need to worry about anything and don’t even try and call us as there was no network. After this session we were now on our own with no one to report and we went on our way back enjoying the nature and trying not to hit anything as the lane was quite narrow and we were 3 on a small scooty. The owner of the active was more than happy to see us or may be see his active in same condition which he gave us. So we went back to our room and this is it! In the late afternoon we went to explore the property and we found ourselves in the river and we saw three kayaks and I being the hydrophobic took a seat near the river and the other two were more than excited to get on the kayaks and get going on the water.
Just the minute we can there, rain also stopped by to welcome us. Drenched in the rains we were having the time of our life. Being kids again was what we did. Even I went and had a good time kayaking. First with my friends and then alone. This was literally I was alone in the water for the 1st time. I was so happy as if I had won something! Which I think I did. We had a great time Kayaking and then getting drenched in the rains and then singing wonderful songs. We were free!
We came back had an early dinner and thought of getting back in our pyjamas and coming back to our talks. This was it for a day and talk till late night.
Since next day we had to check out and go to the other hotel as this particular hotel wasn’t available. The other one was just 3 kms away from this one. And the owner was kind enough to drop us to the other hotel. We check in and this one was full of adventure like Kayaking, Zip lining, burna bridge and what not! So we all were enthusiastic about enjoying the adventure after a good relaxing day and we had the full day activities and good food and again our talks.
Next after leisure breakfast, we left for our home and we had decided to take the train back. But Maharashtra Monsoons are not appreciated while travelling. Everything just gets delayed. We were supposed to reach home by 8 but we were nowhere near that. We managed to reach home by 12 mid-night. But since it was the 3 of us its always fun!
So this was out trip to Kolad…
