Waterbanks Adventure in DamDama Lake

Venue : Damdama Lake, 25 Km North West of Gurgaon on Sohna Road
Date : 25th Dec 2005
Description : Masti, Dhamal and Adventure. These three words describe
the whole trip. We started at around 9:30 AM from Noida. It was a bit
late as we reached there by 12:00 PM. The place is located around 1 km
from main road and now days can be reached by Car in muddy roads or by
boat. But in rainy seasons, only way to reach there is by Boat. The
place is a dense a forest with camps and adventure games located in
between.
Games : As soon we reach there, breakfast(Veg Sandwitch, Soup and
Tea/Coffe) was ready. After re-charging ourselves, K&K went for Table
Tennis and V&S started to look around. The place is big almost size of
two football stadiums with various sports facilities like Rope Burma
Bridge, Tarzan swing, Flying Trapeze, Tampoline, Spiders web, Valley
Crossing, Shooting etc. In mid of all this, you can just enjoy sitting
in Hamaks and Easy chairs also two big halls(hut shaped) to protect from
rain. A 1000W music was playing in the main hall where a TT table and a
Basket ball is also placed.
How we went: We started first with Burma Bridge. The bridge start
swinging when you are in middle. I tried to scare others by jumping when
they were in middle. It was not at all risky as instead of roap in base,
tehy have used wodden planks. Yes, but coming down from the bridge, the
web is very loose and you have to be carefull not stucking in it. K has
to go for a rescue operation for a uncle with his little daughter
Tamanna as he was not able to cross the middle portion alone.
Next thing was Trapeze swing. For those who dont know, its a pulley on
which you just hang by your hands and slide downa rope. Though it was
not more than 100 mt, it was fun. Next we went for spider web, It was a
net(same used in Football Post) spread over a frame like tent. You have
to cross it from one end to other. We started with a challange who cross
it first. KD started very fast and was almost to reach till end but he
has to come back to help KK. V started slowely and together as family
won the race. Next was Tarzan swing as you have seen in movies hanging
on roap and crossing a small pot. It was very small mainly for kids.
Then we went for Rock Climbing. Again, KD started first but was unable
to reach top. I touched the top. Gals were also able to reach till
midway. We also jumped on Tampoline.
Now it was time for lunch. The lunch was quite good with chicken curry,
paneer, aloo gobi, dal makhni, roti, rice and gulab jamuns. Now with
stomach full, we spent some time on green grass in bright sun.
Last thing we did was shooting, The aim was a bottle hanging in middle
from a tree. Initially it seemed difficult but all of us hit it.
Amazing. Now it was 4:30 and we have to leave.
The things we couldnt do or try were, valley crossing, some group games
like fighting your enemy in jungle and fishing. And yes we do saw some
wild animals like Neel gay and fox and peacocks.
This was end of the trip.