Reverse waterfalls of Sandhan valley, Bhandardara, with Tattva Adventures

The phrase “reverse waterfalls” makes one wonder, what could this be. This thought made me register on this trip, with Tattva adventures. My roommates also joined me. A few other friends were also supposed to, but they could not make it in the nth hour. I thought I would miss them, but soon realized, it is they who have missed out on something so awesome!

‘Tattva Adventures’ is a fun-filled, mischievous and adventure loving group. We started at night in a nice bus. All through the ride we played antakshari with super funny songs, and some of them were even real bollywood songs! The rest you can imagine ;) The unity in thinking was surprising. Everyone somehow thought of the same crazy things at the same time! The game at times got stuck in never-ending loop “ILU ILU” followed by “LA LAI LAI, LAI LA LAI LA LAI” followed by “ILU ILU” and “LA LAI”… until someone took a stand to break it.

The bus stops suddenly on the way. It was dark, foggy and biting cold. People get down, place the speakers in the middle of the road, start playing item songs loudly, and dance like crazy around it!! After almost an hour, people got exhausted and started getting back into the bus! Then our ride continued.

We reached the base camp and watched the sun rise. Then we get hot and spicy missal-pav along with a nice tea! There was a round of introduction, along with distribution of badges that read “Tell your story”. To me it sounded like, the organizers, Jaal and Sai, are two spiders, who have made a cobweb named Tattva. The rest were the insects who get caught in it. The difference here is, the insects do not wish to leave the cobweb ever, and could even kill the spiders in case they ever thought of destroying the web! I too am caught in it now!

After breakfast and introduction, we started off towards the reverse waterfalls. On the way, we experienced a very different type of rain. The water came flying towards us from our sides, instead of the top. The heavy pours lasted for about a minute, and repeated every 2-3 minutes. Most of the first timers came up different explanations, without noticing the silence of the experienced people. As we reached the point, we understood that they were not rains at all. It was the water from the falls that were flying upwards due to the heavy winds! It felt as though God was holding a huge hose pipe and watered us! Amazing experience :)
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We played in these showers for a while and walked towards Sandhan valley, an extremely beautiful place. One can stare at its lush, green mountains for hours. Then we came back to the base camp and changed into dry clothes. They had arranged for a home-made lunch, in one of those huts. It was a simple dal rice and roti sabzi, but the taste of food cooked on top of burning woods is just awesome. You can feel the difference from that of our gas-stove cooking!

Our return journey was equally fun. We played a customized housie game that had gifts in abundance! Every single person in this trip, whether had a gift in hand or not, sure had a smile on their face, and loads of memories we can never forget! Thank you Jaal, Sai & Tattva group for this amazing experience :)
Would love to tell many more of such stories!