Garudmaachi

I visited Garudmaachi on Friday, 8 March, 2013 as part of engineering offsite from the company I am working in.

Timings and Route: We left in volvo buses from office at 7:45 AM. I took the route shown here. We reached the place at around 10:15 AM. The website of the place is here.

Food: We had breakfast as soon as we reached the place at around 10:30 AM. We had poha and bread-butter-jam. We had our lunch at around 2:30 PM which included two sabjis, chapati, rice, soup and raita. In the evening, we had vada with hari mirch but I missed pav. Overall, the food quality was fine.

Tariffs: The place charged INR 1450 per person from us. There were some toll checks along the way that was paid by the company HR personnel.

Activities: There were a lot of activities that we carried out including:

• Walking on A-shape-bamboos: There was an A-shape bamboo structure per team which had four ropes tied. One guy had to board the bamboo and will have to remain on it for the duration of the activity. Others would have to steer him with four ropes to travel from one point to the other. Every team was given 30 minutes and had to try to make as many people reach from one end to the other. We could finish 3 but some teams finish as many as 8.
• Crossing the river: This was a no-brainer activity. A free plane had crocodiles and piranhas and we had to travel on a raft without talking.
• Rappelling: There was a 35-feet high rock which we had to rappel down with a rope tied to our waist.