It was 4.30 in the night... on the Hyderabad Vikarabad highway! 2 cars were cruising along at 80 kmph.. all of a sudden one of the cars meets a bus coming from the opposite side on a narrow bridge and what was to follow was described as a "near death experience" (as described by Gundz). Sounds like a Gult movie flick with an awesome screenplay?? .. The whole story follows ... read on!
There were quite a few members of the Ol' gang who happened to be in Hyderabad on a particular weekend. So some of us decided that we all meet somewhere and do something exciting. As always 'something' always turns out unplanned and a fusion of a series of whims. The planned meet turned out to be a real crowd puller. What initially was intended for 4-5 guys ended up with about 10 of us. Busy people traveled from far off lands to attend this sammelan leaving their assignments behind.
Strangely as planned, all of us met at Hotel Paradise for a round of Hyderabadi biriyani. The next destination was Runway 9. After 2 hours of karting, TT and snookers we all sat down discussing the plan for the night. Given that it was raining all through the day, we left our bikes at a Kompally and stuck with our cars. We then decided that we head for the city and decide the next course of action over dinner. We ended up eating a 5 course meal for about 3 hours. Soups, starters from Peking Palace, Ameerpet and Icecreams from Ohri's Banjara.
At 12.30 we left the city to go to a small hillock located beyond Shamirpet. For 3 hours in the pitch of the night we sat there discussing about college.. jobs .. anything and everything! At about 3.30 we decided that we go and see the Anantagiri forest near Vikarabad. Little did we know what was going to happen next!
Anantagiri is about 70 kms from the city. Driving at 4 in the morning was no easy task.. The road was almost smooth with some exceptions. This actually happened when we almost reached Anantagiri. We went ahead of the Indica and so all I have is a third person account of what happened. The road was really smooth and so the cars were cruising at 80kmph. At one point there was a bus coming in the opposite direction... It was not untill the car almost reached a narrow bridge that they realised that it could not have accomodated both the vehicles. The car managed to stay on the road... the left set of tyres hit the parapet on the bridge leaped half a meter in the air and landed. The rim was bent and tyre punctured.
After half an hour of repair, it was finally fixed and we all strode back ending up skipping the whole forest part. But that was definitely enough adventure for all of us! Some of them were almost sorry that the car did not fall into pit below .. where some where least bothered and busy in scaling their own peaks when others were repairing the car!
That my friends is the story of a night-out, a highway and a bus!
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