Godavari trip

been meaning to write this trip for ages 'cos i dunno if the next time id want if these villages would be there or inundated with the pollavarm project.....and i do want to remeber these places....
8 of us left in this tavera still undecided where we are really going....a mountain place a river place....with hyd summer at its peak half way to gudem i told sashi lets go by a river...n we changed tracks....quick phone calls were made to confirm if there would be boat service but before we got any confirmation we were outta network range....and to top it all sashi asks me to drive...i ask sashi ur sure you all want to take the risk...i've never drove a 4 wheel and never on a highway.....nyways sashi sashi says in d city u zoom like crazy abhi kya hai...i am like okie after initial hesitation and drving at 60s i was soon hitting 100 km/hr and voila was a moment when i overtook d first truck everyone was clapping...hmm... after about 200 kms i gave back the wheel cos we were reaching punnavaram (in khmmam where d launches come from traditionally) and needed to enquire about launches....were running late after our various chai n khana breaks....no lanches there in d evening then we checked sriramnagiri there was no luck their either but this bus driver there asked us to go to Pochavaram......this village is a quaint lil' tribal village was so peaceful i declared i sint mind not gettting the launch can sleep by the river bank here for the night...but we got lucky found a place to park our car and a private boat to kolleru..... was my first 3 hour boat ride in the night.....we reached kolleru at 10 in the night .......the only light there was the LEDs we carried...even the moon was hidden.......God i was estatic with the thought of sleeping on daris by the river....we took bath in the river at 11 had a shot of whisky and were ready to hit our daris by 12.....i could not sleep at all...was so excited with the idea of sleeping under the sky by the river feeling the sand under my dari (half the time i was on d sand)....was the loveliest nights ever......in the morning my fisrt sight was 2 fishermens huts around and sashi swimming...nisha n lalita sitting watching.....was d most breattaking view...d river d sand ......then i jumped in to swim.....refused to get out so sashi n nisha got me coffee wow! i had bedside milk b4 but never coffee while still swimming in d river.....then we went up these people staying up these had some kind of soalr electricity and gave us breakfast....was unbeleivable this whole village had no grid electricity and no phones!! it bliss......during the day we visited Kortur which is a bit advanced thanks to the tourasm guest house and then parentapallli which is much know because of the ashram and went to pollvaram to see the actual project sight....all evening and morning were lazing around in the river on our own private beach...getting real delicous food which the local tribe (Kondareddy's) cooked for us.....was the my most amazing trip.....still have to thank sashi for taking us there