Rotti-Kallu Outing

After a long wait for Team Outing, we finally decided March 14th and 15th to go to Rotikallu Resort, Saklespura.  This was an unofficial Team Trip. We were a total of 8 members.  Many of our friends could not join because of their personal commitments. We did not delay the trip as the summer would not be preferred for the relaxed Team Outing.

Rotikallu Resort is located in Saklespura (~28km from Saklespura town).

Morning Beauty

Yay! :-)

The advantage of Western Ghats was clearly visible with scenic beauty, green coffee plantations, enchanting mountains along with stream and weather was better.

We were all set to leave to Rotikallu at 7:30am, a little here and there made us to leave Bangalore at around 8:15am after a cup of tea in Harish's house. Since we were 8 members, two vehicle was comfortable. Harish and Vinayak had bought their car for the trip.

Group Pic after Breakfast. PC: Manju

After an hour of ride, we stopped at Mayur for breakfast. Mayur had a small park also and the kids enjoyed playing here. The breakfast was delicious. We had a variety of food - idle, vada, Puri, dosa ..etc

With music and discussion on random topic made the journey lively. We reached Rotikallu at 1pm. There were other people also present and the resort seemed to be packed with visitors.



As it was lunch time without delay we were ready for Lunch. Akkirotti with chicken curry was delicious :-). The lunch was good. There were water games arranged and we got ready for the same.

In Water games, there were couple of swing rides, walk on rope and other small activities. We all tried each of them and it was fun. We also spent time in water playing, relaxing. The kids (Samrat and Vihan) were also excited and were busy playing in water. We also had lot of photo-shoot in the water as our Professional Photographer Vijay was taking them in his SLR.

Swing :-)

:-)

Kids Enjoying in white boat :D

Relax madi :-)

Swing :-)

Hanging in there

After the water sports, we played Volleyball in water. Rotikallu also had Cricket, water throwball, badminton court with them , these were occupied by other folks. It was fun playing volleyball in muddy water. We ended up outdoor activity at around 5:30pm and headed for snacks.

Volleyball

Basketball? :D

After bath, we were all set for camp fire and chit chats. The camp fire was made separate to each group and it was good. We started with our drinks ,starter's and lot of gossips.  It was fun to pull each others leg and evening was going smooth.

We had dinner at 10:15pm and resumed our chit chats and continued till 11pm. As we were tired of journey and outdoor games, we planned for early sleep. Before we had planned to play cards, Uno but could not play. Also Rotikallu volunteers had planned for a trek in the morning and we thought of giving a try.

We got up around 7pm but could not go for a trek, it was already sunny. We then played Uno,Cards and also badminton until breakfast which was served at 9:30am.
After the breakfast we relaxed for some more time. We were ready at around 1pm to leave back to Bangalore.We also managed to get some group pics here and there.

On the Hills!

Group in Jeep

Manju at Gym

On the way back , we also visited a small water falls. Then we stopped near Saklespura for lunch.

The journey back was more of silent and relaxation, enjoyed the music tracks after the resort fun.
We stopped at adiga's for evening tea/coffee.

We reached Bangalore at 7:30pm. Harish's house was last meeting point from where we departed.

 It was an awesome Week-end with friendly colleagues :-)

Group at Rotti-Kallu :-)