Trip to Yana, Murudeshwara and Unchalli falls

Trip to Yana, Murudeshwara and Unchalli falls

We had this trip after Aradhana-03. We were very enthusiastic to go for a trip after working as a unit during Aradhana-03 to make it a memorable one.

We began the trip to Yana around 2:30am in a luxury bus. We were around 30 people including 6 girls for the trip. This was our first trip with SPICMACAY (we were in the 2nd year at that time). We went to Murudeshwara at around 6:00am, our first destination which is an island in the Arabian Sea. It has beautiful temple and large Siva idol along with a few others. This island it has a road connecting it to the mainland and sea elsewhere. After spending about an hour here, around the temple clicking photos and enjoying the scenery. We left Murudeshwar around 7:00am - 7:15am towards Kumta, where we had our breakfast at the Kamat Hotel. We packed the food for out trip here and around 6 members stayed back to carry it when it was ready. The rest were guided to the bus stop from where they went towards Yana in a KSRTC bus which would take them to the point around 4km before Yana. The 6 people got the food packed and left to Yana in the same luxury bus, the bus being too big had to stop around 8kms before Yana. We had to then trek the remaining distance, which took around 2 hours. We reached the temple at Yana in various units depending on our speed. It was then around 11:45am. We went into the temple and the cave behind it.We could not shout around because of the wild bees around the temple. We then picked up snapshots while few others were told the story about the temple's past. We had our lunch brought along by the food committee which was sufficient to satisfy a small part of our massive hunger.

We took rest for around half an hour and then started walking back. All along the way we had a tiny stream of water flowing by the road. The nearest hospital was 30kms away so we had to be very careful in playing around. The walking back seem to be more tiring than the earlier one thanks to the sun above our head. Finally we walked back the 8kms (no KSRTC bus at this time) and reached the bus around 2:30pm. After a long walk we refreshed ourself at a small shop near the spot where our bus was parked. We finally left Yana around 3:00pm.

Our next destination was the Unchalli falls(lushington falls) from here which was around 2 and a half hour journey from here. In the mean time some of us fell asleep after the long trek. We reached the falls around 5:45pm and so could not get down into the water, as it would take a lot of time and the place being isolated had to be left off early. We viewed the falls from the sight seeing spot near the falls, picked the snaps and left the falls unwilling to the bus. Then we came back to the bus and resumed our fun.

We had our dinner at Kamat Restaurant in Sirsi at around 9:00pm. Resuming our journey after dinner we reached our College around 1:00am with some of us feeling uncomfortable due to the winding roads.

We had enough fun in the entire bus journey. We were playing antakshari and dancing. We had some mimickries of Upendra, mimickries of some of our lecturers and some famous actors. We tried linking some couples and had fun of it. The josh was everywhere.