It was the first Sunday morning at Bargarh. Though there was no planning but my friend vineet already intimated on Friday that, see Sudhir we will be ready on Sunday morning are you? He said about a place which Nalichuan which lies in place called Amabhona, which is 25 kms from Bargarh. The water fall name is Aapkhol which is 10 kms off road ride.
By residing in Bargarh from childhood I knew there were many hideouts from the local town. So he urged me to take a cut from my busy schedule and have a grasp of fresh air of the locality. These were his exact words “hey bo ena bhi ete bhal bhal jaga mane ache tui dekhi nei thibu” which means that hey here also there are so much exciting places are there that you may not have seen. I had to edit my manuscript also as the publisher also repeatedly asking me to send the manuscript.
Finally, we talked about getting out early in the morning at 5:30 am on Sunday. The day before the travel I slept early. Tick tock and the night passed on, my eyes opened on 5 am on Sunday. I got ready and on my part tried to finish my day to day work early. After I have been transferred from my previous place of posting this was my first travel into the forests of Bargarh.
On 5:30 am I messaged him and he replied that he will soon be ready as his other friend niru had just called about being ready. On ….. …am my friend vineet called said “hela kein bo, ” which means that is everything done, are you ready, we are in Dang chowk at Bargarh, reach as soon as possible. I said I am on my way will be reaching there in 8 minutes.
Dominar 400 my bike snored with his engine and I reached the dang Chowk within minutes as in morning there was no traffic. I met the other guy Niru we three departed from the location. As Vineet termed it “ we looked as we are on Alien invasion”.
Through the road of Khedapali to the Bhatli and then Amabhona the GPS really helped us to track the exact path. Network these days becomes an important asset, otherwise in every chowk the local betel shops would be our milestone. That’s also interesting don’t you think.
The off track roads were not so dangerous but you need to be cautious while riding by bike. There will be very much difficult. We took our snacks like Biscuits, cakes and water bottles from home also Vineet bought one on the Bhatli Village. I recommend my viewers to bring water bottle from home only as the less we use the one time things the more the better.
We rode some 8 to 10 kms in to the forests and there were the touring video. Vineet was some kinda excited to ride the bike with some off roading video capturing. We both captured each others videos.
We parked our bikes there some steps earlier and then the time came of the beautiful water fall Aapkhol. We crossed some path of the stream which was dominant during the rainy days and gone to the Upside of the waterfall. Vineet with all his postures captured every angle of the beauty. Whenever you visit the mountains, wherever they may be with their blessing green carpets of forests they just refill you with the refreshing energy of freshness.
After clicking some shots on the upward side of the waterfall, we walked to the downside. And then came the beautiful view of the water fall. On one side it looked like a deposition of water like a pond and on other side the water stream was getting into itself into the groundwater. It felt like coming from the far mountains it had some duty to do like replenishing the ground water table.
Here we waited for some time and ate some of the snacks which we had brought with us. I spotted that there are many garbage like poly bags and wrappers which were thrown in the open thus pollutes the beautiful landscape. We urged through our video also that not to throw garbage here and there and also I request all the readers that not to throw any stuffs outside, if you have a bag then take it with you and dispose it in a dustbin wherever you find it.
It was about 8 am and then we decided to go to another waterfall. When we travelled across the dark jungles we spotted some ant hills and be careful when you walk through. After that Vineet said that he is not feeling so good to track and the other guy also said to me like that. We so decided to return. As it is a wildlife sanctuary so there may be any wildanimals for which you need to be cautious. And also don’t travel alone you should have some experienced person and if your team are not feeling good then it’s better to return. I have heard many stories like the one that some family were stuck inside and some wild animal chased some old person and by sliping on the path his head struck a rock and he died, and many more some were published in the print media also.
So after all the discussion we returned. The enjoyment of also off road bike ride was fulfilled. It was around 10 am and we decided to hault in nearby dhaba for some snacks. But beware don’t haul in the …this dhaba. The food were lillte bit good little bit bad like we ordered chilly chicken and he brought some shitty dish. Vineet wished for a drink but there were only one so we divided in the hour of need of some juice as we were feeling thirsty. It was about 11: 30 am as we grabbed some snacks and also talked about the beauty and also our day to day life stuffs. As the other guy Niru was getting late so we decided to return to our home. I dropped both of them at the Dang chowk Bargarh and accelerated my bike for a grasp of tea, yeah in the afternoon and reached home at 1: 30 pm. So, this is all it.
@ Sudhir
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