The fireflies camping

by Gauri More (India)

A leap into the unknown India

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It's scorching month of may, ending of my dream, closing down of my rented shop, being in the cycle of depression on of my friend told me about the fireflies camping, and details to join the camping group, before closing my shop I get cheque of 1950/- which is enough to pay for my first camping trip, for the first time I am doing solo trip with this group because in middle of the process sunil and is friends back out from the trip so I am the only girl is there who is travelling with them from my area, so before going to that camping I had to fight with my parents to allow me to be the part of this adventure which is unkonw to me, so after this battle I am prepared for my camping I don't have any clue what going to happen or which kind of experience I am going to get, so the day arrived I am all prepared to get my first experience, the group leader asked me to wait near amboli church and get there at morning 7 A. M sharp , I reach there on time but they come late around 8 o'clock, and the First of its kind adventure in my life starts, we have to pick up people from different pick up points till then they provide us breakfast in non-ac bus, we have to tackled city traffic before headed towards state highways, then when we are on highway we take one loo break there I am being introduced to madhuri mahtre one of the girl coordinator, we became good friends lastly, do you guys know where this fireflies camping held, the place name is bhandardara ahmednagar district, before going to camping I didn't know the place, or never heard the name before, but this place do have many tourist destination, and events to, and one of it is fireflies camping, so we reach Village ghoti at 2.00 P. M in afternoon the base village where camping ground is der, they gave us two options first take the bath I'm river than had our lunch or had our lunch than go to the river to have bath, all the other travellers agreed to have lunch first than change the clothes and then have fun in the River, what a fun it is, elderly people stay on the shore and youngster like us just starting having fun in the river, I met meena aunty there who take cares, of my belonging, then she help me to dry my hair, after coming from there we do have one photo session amazing postures and great smile , after coming from the riverside they allocate us our tents as I am solo traveller first they asked me to share the tent with elderly lady, but then they give me my separate tent, it's going to be my first experience to sleep in the tent, it's comfy also, because there is bed, bedsheets and they provide pillow too with blankets, but I didn't know we going to have only 4 hours off slip, coz after allocation of tents we do, have indroductionary round where we know each others name and which kind of adventure they did before, we do our introduction but the night is getting high as Tempreture is getting low, thank got they arrenge the barbeque before lunch, we have non-veg and veg option in barbeque I enjoyed the open air grilling first time that charcoal smoke and chicken just one word to describe wow and delicious, I thought it is Enough for the dinner but again one more suprise arrived our whole meal as, dinner where they served whole thali whith sweet dish which is kind of unexpected, after tummy fool of food they asked us to get some sleep because we traveled for almost 5 hour's in, the bus after 11:30 P. M they started waking us up coz is time for the main event to see fireflies In complete darkness, it's my first time to watch it, and it's mesmerizing there is one guitar guy who is singing on, the site we sat around him listen to his music and enjoy the fireflies in dark night, that night never gets of from my mind, what a beautiful memories it was with total strangers, and fireflies creates the, illusion on the trees that there are thousands of stars glimmering on the trees with there own patterns it's just one of Kind of show for us, where we want that time just freeze around the time and we can capture more moments like that, after our tour is over around the trees and fireflies we came to the tents were some energetic folks start dancing again, I sat there near campfire and watch stars In the sky , talk with stars is my favorite game from childhood, I talk with them for while then when my eyes, start shutting, down I go into my tent for the sleep, in morning at 7.A.M I wake up, and when I open the tents clothe door the morning felt like I am in heaven all around fog is surrounded, the clouds where going up towards the mountains, I never experience this kind of magical morning ever, and I am going to remember it forever, after we complete our breakfast we headed towards sandhan valley it's jungle treak basically then we have to walk downward to see the valley of the shadow it indeed beautiful experience, and after seeing the beautiful valley we come back to the bus and headed back to our chaotic city Mumbai, the leap in to the unknown become my first trip with total strangers who became my friends later