The Journey Never Ends...

The Journey Never Ends...
NH-1,Srinagar-Leh

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Surviving' Death:My Own Experince

The Sky Was Quite Clear,When We Chalked Out Our Monsoon Safari Plan on the 24th.Finally in Ranthambore, Our Gypsy Came to Pick us Up From Our Safari Lodge.As Soon As We Entered The Forest Check Post,Dark Awful Clouds Emerge From Nowhere.We Started To Expect Rain "Its gonna rain Heavily",As Soon As I Said This ,My Wish Come True,and The Shower Started,Our Driver And guide Decided to Wait For Sometime For The Rain To Stop,Outside The Zone-4 Gate.Other Cars Started to Go Inside Knowing That There Was no sighting today Unless your "Superlucky".And Finally After About Half An hour Our Driver And guide  Decided to Go Inn to Try Our Luck.The Monsoon Was Still Onn And In Full Swing With No Signs Of  Stopping.I Was Hoping to See Machli(Old tigress In Ranthnambore,Formerly known "Queen of Ranthambore") In Zone-4...Keep Machli Aside,because Of Heavy rains I Was not Able to See The Road Ahead,As We Zoomed Into Deep of Zone-4.The Monsoon showed Its Dark Side.I Just Glared At The Sky And The View Was Ridiculous,The Sky Had Lost its Blue Color And Was Full With Dark Clouds.Our Driver Said In A Painfull Voice "We Should return Back Now".We All Agreed .We took A big U-turn.The Water we Crossed earlier Was Overflowing and There was no Chance Of our Gypsy to Pass.So Our Driver suggested An Idea,That We Should go To Zone 3 from Zone 4.There was A Small Rift of some 5 ft.We Decided to Build A Small bridge Of Some rocks.We Started to built it And It Came to Action.And it Was time for Practicals.Our Driver Was ready  To go Through the Small Bridge.He Shifted "4WD" Gear And Started And Crossed It easily.I must it Was Because Of  the Car..!! With No More time We Were in Zone 3,We had broken The Forest Rules And Entered Zone 3.The Driver Zoomed into Zone 3.After a short Stretch.The View was Insane.Streams Hailing From Nowhere Gathered And Formed A Big river Like Water Body.We Decided to Cross It Knowing That Something's gonna be Wrong.In No Time We Crossed it.The Guide Was totally confused.He Was Not Able to MAke out The Road in It..!!! He Decided to Turn Back So That We Could Find Some Other Cars In Zone-4 Which Were Behind Us.But As Soon As Our Driver Started To turn The Gypsy On 4WD.He Couldn't Make Out The road And The Stream,And he Finally Ended Up In Water.In no time Water Gushed into Our Car And Smoke Came Out Of The Engine.All Hell Broke Loose And Water entered Our Car Like Mad.Firstly we were standing in our car,Coz Of The bloody water,We Were In No Time Standing On our Car's Seat And the Driver And The guide Standing on The Bonnet of The Car.All Living daylights Were Freaked Out..The Water Level Was rising Like as Someone Was intending to Do So..The Water Level Kept Rising.It went Above The dashboard.There was a Chance of our Gypsy Flowing With the Stream,and There were Crocs Waiting For Us Down The Stream.So It Was Decided That either We Could Camp on a tree or walk.Walking Was the Right option I Guess....It Was Risky Either,Zone 3 was the Territory Of  T17(one of The Aggressive Tigress In Rathambore) The Freaky Rain Was Unstoppable,After Sometime Around 5 pm in The Evening It Slowed Down,And The Water level Slowly Began to Decrease,We made A chain And Got Out of the Mess.As Soon as we got Out All of Us Were Relaxed..!! He Began Our Journey towards The Forest Entrance,we Crossed Rajbagh Lake and Saw Some Crocs Basking There,after 2 hours of walking we reached the entrance of zone-3,we Spotted a forest Gypsy Coming towards us,They said that Clear off the Forest fast,coz he Had Confirmed T17's movement On The Wireless Around Us,We Were Still hoping to see A tiger there..we then Decided to Walk To The Main Entrance of The Forest,which was 6 kilometres From Here,there were No Chances Of Help reaching Here,All Streams were Flooded And overflowing ,many Cars Were Stranded Inside,We Decided to reach There Before Dark,finally we reached the main entrance Of The Forest by 8,Another Gyspsy Was Waiting for Us There,Our Hotel Was 5 Km From There,Finally We reached the  Around 8.30 All wet.everyone Was Freaked out  and Decided to Take some Hot Drinks..!!! our Thrilling Journey Ended Here With Lifetime memories...!!!! I am Surely Gonna go Again In October..!!!

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