By Popular Demand - we are forced to have one more last trip before the monsoons start in June. here is the Adventure that you will remember and talk about for long time- White Water Rafting - Rappelling - River Crossing - Jungle Trekking - Bird Watching.
The Exciting Adventure unfolds in the 3rd week of May in Dandeli. The journey starts on Friday 14th May 2010 at 9:00 PM in AC bus ride and after 2 days full of adventure and excitement we are back in Hyderabad on Monday 17 May 2010 early morning just in time to reach offices.

Dandeli is the second largest wildlife sanctuary in Karnataka, Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, is full of undulating streams, whispering bamboo, diverse wildlife and innumerable trekking tracts. The river Kali and its tributaries, Kaneri and Nagajhari, meander through the moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests.
Adventure Activities in Dandeli
White Water Rafting - white water rafting is a challenging recreational activity using an inflatable raft to navigate the Kali river and enjoy the scenery all along. Rafting is a thrilling and exciting sport that you will remember for a long time - The rafting trips are run by Trained professional guides and wetsuits and life jackets and helmets are provided for safety. - got some courage - try this and you will come out more confident then before

Rappelling - A descent of a vertical surface of a 200 feet cliff by sliding down a belayed rope while facing the surface and performing a series of short backward leaps to control the descent. - Rappelling is done under expert guidance of train professional guides with all safety equipment in place - want to conquer you fears - do this couple of times.

River Crossing - Similar to Rappelling but more difficult as there is no gravity to pull you down - here you have to use you hands to move horizontally across the river to the other side and back - got some bicep/triceps and deltoids muscles - use them here
Camping - Camping in our own Tents. Enjoy the night around the bonfire and gazing at the stars in the night.
Jungle Night Trekking - Here we delve deeper into the jungles with torches. here you may get to see nature, animals and nocturnal birds at night - what about ghosts ? lets find out
Bird Watching - Awaken to a thousand birds singing and enjoy a morning trek and listen to natures music and the tunes that will last for life long.
Natural Swimming Pool - Kali River got many beautiful, healthy, ecologically diverse and safe natural water pools where you can swim - watch out it can be cold.
Site Seeing and Day Trekking - Will visit and trek to beautiful spots such as Kavala caves, Shiroli Peak and Syntheri rocks in the Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary
Syntheri Rocks
Kavala Caves
Itinerary
14 May
- 9:00 PM - Bus to Hubli
15 May
- 08:00 AM - Bus to Dandeli
- 10:00 AM - Break Fast and Freshen up
- 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM - White Water Rafting
- 02:00 PM - Lunch
- 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM - River Crossing / Rappelling
- 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM - Pitch Tents
- 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM - Jungle Night Trek
- 09:00 PM - Dinner
- 09:30 - 11:00 PM - Bonfire and Fun time
- 11:00 PM - To sleep
16 May
- 04:30 AM - Wake up Call
- 05:00 AM - 06:00 AM - Drive through Dandeli Wild Life Sanctuary
- 06:00 AM - 09:00 AM - Trek to Cavala Caves,
- 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Visit to Shiroli Peak
- 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM - Visit Syntheri Rocks
- 02:00 PM - Back at Camping area and Lunch
- 04:00 PM - Packup
- 04:30 PM - Dandeli Bus Stand
- 05:00 PM - Catch Bus for Hubli
- 09:00 PM - Catch Bus to Hyderabad
17 May
- 07:30 AM - Reach Hyderabad
Cost: Rs 2200
Includes:
- Transport Hyderabad to Dandeli and back
- Local Transport in Dandeli
- visit to Cavala Caves, Shiroli Peak, Syntheri Rock on day 2
- Food & Stay for 1 Night & 2 days
Activities/Fee Not included in the package
Pay separately per head per activity
- River crossing - Rs 250 per head
- Rappelling Rs - Rs 350 per head
- White Water Rafting Rs - 1200 per head
- Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary Fee Rs 120
- Jeep Safari in Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary( Cavala caves, Shiroli Peak) - Rs 150
- Non Veg Food Rs 100 per day extra
Important Instructions:
1) no smoking and no alcohol during the entire duration.
2) No littering, no pollution of water
3) This is not a luxury trip, but out most care has been taken to make your trip comfortable
4) ladies and gents accommodation in separate tents
5) Food is vegetarian - Non Veg costs is extra
6) We carry Basic First Aid and if you need anything you can ask the organizers
7) if you feel unwell bring to the notice of the organizers immediately.
8) If you cant swim don't go into the water unsupervised
9) You cannot go off trail or move about alone without informing the organisers
Things to Bring
1) A good and positive mood
2) 1 light colour track pants/ loose trousers or jeans - full length
3) 2 light colour T-shirt - ( please avoid bright coloured and shiny clothes)
4) 2 pair socks
5) Swimming shorts for men and dark coloured pants and tshirt for women
6) mosquito cream
7) sun hat/ screen ( for the ladies and fair and handsome)
8) walking /trekking /sport shoes ( You will need floaters for rafting as shoes will get wet)
9) Digi / Video Camera
10) Warm Clothes - It can be cold in the nights
11) Torch / Flashlight /headlight with spare batteries
12) Medicines you need
13) Tiffin Box to carry lunch or u can manage with a plastic cover or paper
14) Refreshments / chocolates / energy bars/ Energy Drinks / sugar salt mixture ( for the poor)
15) water bottles - 2 Litres
16) Toiletries ( tooth brush, paste, small towel/napkin, comb, shampoo)
17) 1 biodegradable plastic bags medium size to carry waste back
18) Photo Id ( passport, Employee/College Id, Pan card/Election Card/ Driving License) with a xerox copy
19) A rucksack / haversack, in other words a bag u can put all your stuff in and hang on ur back, try to keep the bag less then 5 kgs
20) 2 Labled emergency Notes with your name and address, phone numbers, emergency contact name and number, Blood Group, doctors name and number, with information on any medicines you take and any allergies you have with food or medicines, keep 1 in pocket and 1 in bag.
21) Sleeping Bag or a bedsheet
Expectations from participants:
a. Reach the station on time.
b. No alcohol and No smoking.
c. Strictly No quarrels, calling Nicknames, getting personal or making jokes about anybody
d. No anti social, deviant or unacceptable social behavior
Anybody not following this guidelines and rules will be asked to leave immediately and removed from the group.
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This is my first trip ever. I thought 2 days is very less but had got many moments in that limited schedule itself and hope to experience many such trips with ghac .. thank you sreenath :)
Sreenath...Great camera... and Great photos...
We really liked this trip to Dandeli.This has been a very nice experience ... Awsome!
http://picasaweb.google.com/sree1216m/Dandeli
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This trip was more than what I expected. I really enjoyed every moment of this trip, river rafting was the best part. 9 Kms in the kali with 10 previously unknown people putting on a great team work.. really amazing part of the whole trip.... I loved rafting more than anything else because it was more of a team activity and next were the night safari and the trek to Kavala caves. I visited some small caves earlier, but this one was different.. not a very big cave, but good to start with.
It was really a grt trip indeed.....got scared in d beginning however thnxs 2 sreenath for his kind support & makin this trip extraordinarily good....
Rock-On....
Vaibhav .
Though few hitches we could able to complete all the major activites .. i wish every body safe back home... please rate the meetup and upload your pics ... you can pics to meetup album or give link of your external albums .. upload only group pics to meetup album ..
please be there sharp at 8:30pm ; Make sure you start early to avoid traffic , one final suggestion dont bring too much lugguage clothes.. keep it only to the minimum which were listed earlier and also avoid or keep to minimum any valuables [ gold ornaments etc ] .. we would like u to enjoy to the max and not worry about other things
Everyone Please report at Platform No 33 M.G.B.S Bus Stand Gowliguda on Friday 14th May 08:30 PM
geared-up 4 the first trip with GHAC............yupppppiiii
Please let me know the details about the payment as this is my first event with GHAC.
quite excited for d trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Diyanat,
This would be my first activity through GHAC, please let me know the process to follow while transferring the amount. Also, let me know how to pay the amount for activities which are not part of the package.
---- Vamshi
hey when do we pay d registration amt?
Hey I wanna swap my confirmed position on 8th may for this trek with these dates ?? is some ready to accept my proposal ??
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