I had just finished writing my SSLC (10th Class) exams and planning to do something adventurous. Unfortunately all my friends were mild and not so outgoing. I was the only adventurous to some exten. In holidays I used to climb the bellary fort from various secret paths, tunnels and crevasses all alone. We friends use to race to reach the top and I was the first always. Till date none of my friends know that I knew some secret routes. I reached the top 30-40 mins earlier than others. Well this had led to some frightening moments when I had lost my way in middle of the tunnels with no light, air and bats for my company. But this story does not involve my Bellary Fort adventures.
This time we planned for a out-of-station trip and after some discussion and persuading our parents we decided to go to Hampi…..we decided for a 2 day trip. Covering whole of Hampi actually needs 3-4 days, but we were allowed only for 2 days max. It was hot summer in April and Summer in Bellary is what everyone knows about. They say there are only two seasons in Bellary Summer and Hot Summer. We 5 of them had planned to go and it was all of ours first overnight trip with friends. First day we planned to stay in Hospet…a town near Hampi. That day we would visit Tungabhadra Dam (TB Dam) ….early morning next day we will leave to Hampi. Our stay in Hospet was taken care by my father in one of the Government maintained Inspection Bungalows. It’s a Guest house for the stay for Government people who come and go for government work.
This guest house was located in the outskirts of the city and in middle of the thick forest area. Also various rooms in the guest house were spread across in the area and not attached to the main building. When we reached there in the day time we appreciated the beauty…but when we returned back from TB Dam in the evening it was already dark and the place looked creepy. Dinner was arranged in the guest house itself and we all went back to our two rooms given to us. Actually our rooms were 2 out of three rooms and there was a common door to all three rooms apart from individual doors. The third room was locked. 3 of us went into one room and remaining took the other room.
Without fans we cannot sleep in mid summer…for our bad luck one of the room had a faulty fan. So we all decided to move the bed to other room where the fan was hardly rotating making a creeking sound and that too randomly. Something was better than nothing. Here 3 of us took the bed and other 2 decided to take the floor. But the floor was too dirty to take. It being summer no government worker liked to come to this part of the state and so it was not maintained for months together I guess. First of all we got the guest house vacant because of this reason. Finally other two decided to take the huge table in one corner of the room. But this table was so old and was making creeking noise even for the breathing movements of our friends.
It was 10PM now and some how we got used to the situation and by 11 PM 2 of the table toppers were sleeping. I was sleeping at the edge towards the door and one of my friend was towards the huge window which was fully opened expecting not miss a slightest of breezing wind. Even though our room was fully surrounded by huge trees not even a single leaf moved that day. Anyway…hardly few leaves were left on the tree….all had dried and on the ground. At around 11:30 PM my friend sleeping in the middle of the bed got thirsty. Then we realized that we forgot to take water bottles with us. There was a jug half full in the room….but who knows when was it last full. He beared his thirst…but hearing our noise one of the table topper woke up and asked for water. He was a spoon fed baby of his parents and he was literally crying for water. So I decided to go to the main building to get some water.
I opened the door to go out ...but the moment I stepped out I saw nothing but darkness. I could see a small light glowing in the main building...but it was some 200 mts far. I was not daring to go till there at 12 in the midnight. So I asked my friends to join. No one was ready to step out of the room itself. I told my friends to help themselves and went back to bed. None made any daring attempt and just lied back. I might have closed my eyes for some time and from somewhere I heard sound of gulping water ...when I woke up to see ..it was our spoon fed baby drinking water from the half full jug without able to bear the thirst. I only wished he'd not get sick the next day and end our trip there. It was almost 1AM and we all were half sleep and just rolling over on the bed.
Then suddenly we heard noise of someone hitting the common door of our 3 room building which we had closed assuming we were the only people to occupy the 2 out of three rooms. The sound of hitting was echoing in our room so we all were silly enough to assume that it something non human. All woke up to the noise and we all were sitting on the bed now close to each other. One said its a dog ...another said that its wind blowing and we might have left the door open. I said if it was the wind we would have been in deep sleep. The hitting continued and we did not make a move or attempt to even open our room door atleast. After some time the hitting stopped. We all went back to our bed and we were about to settlle down we heard a crackling souund of leaves from the open window side. My friend who was sleeping near window jumped and was sitting on me within a flash. we 3 on bed were watching towards the window as if we were watching final of the World cup cricket on TV and there was 3 runs India need of last 2 balls. The crackcling sound of the dried leaves on the ground near the window was increasing. We were sure that someone was approaching the towards the window. As the window was at higher level we had to go close to see whats below....but no one dared. Then what happened next sent shivers through all of us....slowly a head emerged from below and started looking into the dark room of ours. We could see it just like a shadow and our spoon fed baby had woke up and was looking towards the window. The moment he saw the dark figure in the window he screamed like hell and we all were shocked.
Then suddenly came the voice ....oye yenro astothinda baglu baditha idini baglu thgrilo makla...hudugmundevu hedrukondave ( Hey I have been knocking the door since long ...open the door boys....Kids are frightened). After confirming that its a human, we opened the door. Then we came to know that a family had taken the 3rd room for stay and they came late to the guest house. They were unaware of our presence and thought that the door is jammed and tried hard to open. Then when they asked the security he informed them about our presence and He came from behind to wake us up. We all came back and with the comfort of the feeling that there were some adults beside our room we had sound sleep. The next day was the spent mostly laughing out remembering the events of the previous night. The Hampi visit was good and our first trip out was memorable for many reasons now.
This time we planned for a out-of-station trip and after some discussion and persuading our parents we decided to go to Hampi…..we decided for a 2 day trip. Covering whole of Hampi actually needs 3-4 days, but we were allowed only for 2 days max. It was hot summer in April and Summer in Bellary is what everyone knows about. They say there are only two seasons in Bellary Summer and Hot Summer. We 5 of them had planned to go and it was all of ours first overnight trip with friends. First day we planned to stay in Hospet…a town near Hampi. That day we would visit Tungabhadra Dam (TB Dam) ….early morning next day we will leave to Hampi. Our stay in Hospet was taken care by my father in one of the Government maintained Inspection Bungalows. It’s a Guest house for the stay for Government people who come and go for government work.
This guest house was located in the outskirts of the city and in middle of the thick forest area. Also various rooms in the guest house were spread across in the area and not attached to the main building. When we reached there in the day time we appreciated the beauty…but when we returned back from TB Dam in the evening it was already dark and the place looked creepy. Dinner was arranged in the guest house itself and we all went back to our two rooms given to us. Actually our rooms were 2 out of three rooms and there was a common door to all three rooms apart from individual doors. The third room was locked. 3 of us went into one room and remaining took the other room.
Without fans we cannot sleep in mid summer…for our bad luck one of the room had a faulty fan. So we all decided to move the bed to other room where the fan was hardly rotating making a creeking sound and that too randomly. Something was better than nothing. Here 3 of us took the bed and other 2 decided to take the floor. But the floor was too dirty to take. It being summer no government worker liked to come to this part of the state and so it was not maintained for months together I guess. First of all we got the guest house vacant because of this reason. Finally other two decided to take the huge table in one corner of the room. But this table was so old and was making creeking noise even for the breathing movements of our friends.
It was 10PM now and some how we got used to the situation and by 11 PM 2 of the table toppers were sleeping. I was sleeping at the edge towards the door and one of my friend was towards the huge window which was fully opened expecting not miss a slightest of breezing wind. Even though our room was fully surrounded by huge trees not even a single leaf moved that day. Anyway…hardly few leaves were left on the tree….all had dried and on the ground. At around 11:30 PM my friend sleeping in the middle of the bed got thirsty. Then we realized that we forgot to take water bottles with us. There was a jug half full in the room….but who knows when was it last full. He beared his thirst…but hearing our noise one of the table topper woke up and asked for water. He was a spoon fed baby of his parents and he was literally crying for water. So I decided to go to the main building to get some water.
I opened the door to go out ...but the moment I stepped out I saw nothing but darkness. I could see a small light glowing in the main building...but it was some 200 mts far. I was not daring to go till there at 12 in the midnight. So I asked my friends to join. No one was ready to step out of the room itself. I told my friends to help themselves and went back to bed. None made any daring attempt and just lied back. I might have closed my eyes for some time and from somewhere I heard sound of gulping water ...when I woke up to see ..it was our spoon fed baby drinking water from the half full jug without able to bear the thirst. I only wished he'd not get sick the next day and end our trip there. It was almost 1AM and we all were half sleep and just rolling over on the bed.
Then suddenly we heard noise of someone hitting the common door of our 3 room building which we had closed assuming we were the only people to occupy the 2 out of three rooms. The sound of hitting was echoing in our room so we all were silly enough to assume that it something non human. All woke up to the noise and we all were sitting on the bed now close to each other. One said its a dog ...another said that its wind blowing and we might have left the door open. I said if it was the wind we would have been in deep sleep. The hitting continued and we did not make a move or attempt to even open our room door atleast. After some time the hitting stopped. We all went back to our bed and we were about to settlle down we heard a crackling souund of leaves from the open window side. My friend who was sleeping near window jumped and was sitting on me within a flash. we 3 on bed were watching towards the window as if we were watching final of the World cup cricket on TV and there was 3 runs India need of last 2 balls. The crackcling sound of the dried leaves on the ground near the window was increasing. We were sure that someone was approaching the towards the window. As the window was at higher level we had to go close to see whats below....but no one dared. Then what happened next sent shivers through all of us....slowly a head emerged from below and started looking into the dark room of ours. We could see it just like a shadow and our spoon fed baby had woke up and was looking towards the window. The moment he saw the dark figure in the window he screamed like hell and we all were shocked.
Then suddenly came the voice ....oye yenro astothinda baglu baditha idini baglu thgrilo makla...hudugmundevu hedrukondave ( Hey I have been knocking the door since long ...open the door boys....Kids are frightened). After confirming that its a human, we opened the door. Then we came to know that a family had taken the 3rd room for stay and they came late to the guest house. They were unaware of our presence and thought that the door is jammed and tried hard to open. Then when they asked the security he informed them about our presence and He came from behind to wake us up. We all came back and with the comfort of the feeling that there were some adults beside our room we had sound sleep. The next day was the spent mostly laughing out remembering the events of the previous night. The Hampi visit was good and our first trip out was memorable for many reasons now.
