A trip to Nandi hills

It has been about 3months I reached Bangalore and haven’t visited any place still!!! My roomie was also feeling so bad that she too didn’t visit any places in Bangalore. So finally we zeroed down on Nandi hills after reading many blogs and travelogues . Finally the 3 of us set out on a Sunday morning. Taking a cab was expensive so we thought of catching a bus from Majestic . Thank God that now a days we get every information from internet. I wonder how people used to live before all these technologies!!! They are to be praised ;)From one of the blogs we came to know that there is a bus at 8.30 in the morning …so we decided to start from our home at around 7AM. Me and Jeena (my roomie) were waiting for Jessan(our friend) near the silk board flyover when that happened…A crow took his/her revenge on me(why me??? Still wondering)and gave me that nice drop of its shit on my stole. Luckily it was on one end so with the mineral water we were carrying I washed it off and tied it on window side of the auto….So by the time we reached bus stand it had dried up;)We didn’t knew from which platform we had to catch the bus, finally when we finished our search and reached PF 12 it was almost 8.30 and there was no time for break fast.So we got into the bus and took a seat in the middle. Journey to Nandi hills was exciting (at least for me, because after sometime both of them dozed off to sleep). Finally by 10.30 or so we reached there. We have to take an entry ticket of 3Rs each and if you are coming by private vehicle or cabs then parking fee also has to be paid. We started exploring the place. We had no idea of what all things were there and where we should start….We started to climb up the hill munching on biscuits and chocolate also clicking pics . The view from the top was wonderful. We thought of taking some rest and sat down on one of the rocks. It was so windy there . I had pinned a polythene cover on my backpack in which we put all the biscuit and chocolate wraps so that we wont litter the place. Suddenly I felt that the packet is becoming heavy and I am being pulled to back. Goshhh!!!!! A monkey was holding on to the cover and pulling it trying to get the cover so that it can have the biscuits inside it…(God!! It got so attracted by the wrappers!!!) I gave out a wild yeeeekkk and everyone around us were staring at us.Enough of excitement!!! So we planned to walk on. There was a children’s park , forgetting conveniently about our age we played on all the things over there, swings, see-saw ,sliders ,ladders……….We really had a mast time and by noon we were so tired and decided to have lunch. Once you reach the top of hills there are a few restaurants. We had our lunch from a Park View restaurant or something, the food was decent. After lunch we started our climb down licking on ice-cream. There was a bus to Majestic at around 3.30 PM as per the information in a blog . We waited ,waited and waited….Its 4.00 and still no sign of bus. Finally a bus came and suddenly from no where there was a huge crowd in front of the door pushing and pulling to get inside. Somehow I find it easy to go through small gaps in between and so I got into the bus and reserved a seat for the 3 of us….With a smile of triumph Jessan said to conductor “3 tickets to Majestic”. “Sorry, this doesn’t go to Majestic”. God!!! In that excitement to get into the bus somehow we had completely forgotten to ask where the bus is going to..What now? All the pushing and pulling has gone waste. Thus we took tickets to some bus station (sorry I forgot the name) and from there got another bus to Majestic. Ha…Thus the return journey was horrible….But the day was fun , we really enjoyed itJ-Ami