Tyda Jungle Bells

April 2007

Our MBA was in its final phase. We all were aware of the fact that it was also last stage of our beautiful college-life, and the real-life was waiting for us outside the college gates.

I don’t exactly remember how everything got planned but we, a bunch of friend decided to travel to this beautiful place called Tyda Jungle bells, it is about 6-7 hours drive from Vizag, but we tried our hands on both first train and then a car drive.

All we knew about Tyda from Google search was it is a place situated in middle of dense forests near Araku Valley (a hill station neighboring Vizag). It has AP tourism cottages and people just go there to relax and chill out.

Day 1 Vizag: we had an amazing fun, it was a jam packed day full of site-seeing, eating by road-side, beaches, water sports, rope-ways, pubing and at last amazing sleepy after doing so much in just one day.

Next day we boarded a train to a place called Bora Caves which was on the way to Araku Valley, the train was one of its own kind of an experience, wooden seats people were sitting and sleeping wherever they got chance too. Finally, even we all managed to find some place, to be specific it was exactly the way Shahrukh Khan traveled in the movie Swades, to a village. We reached Bora Cave after 4 hours and soon got done with caves-tour in just an hour and started on a memorable journey to Tyda Jungle Bells.

On the way we passed by Araku Valley and if I am not wrong we reached Tyda in just 2 hours of car drive. We had our booking from 10 in the morning but we reached about 5 in the evening.

Tyda: Oh my god! It was heaven on earth, I have been an avid tourist aroundIndia but trust me guys this one was something special. I was already feeling tranquilized, romantic, dreamy, and wonderful, there was some magic in the air.


We got the keys at the reception office and then the attendant guided us towards are cottage for which we had to walk around 250 yards up the hill into the forest. The wooden cottage was simply astonishing; two walls were completely glass and other two wooden. Down the hills there was an open restaurant which served a limited menu. When I went and spoke to the restaurant in-charge, seeing him I got reminded of a bhatakti hui atma from ramsay movies. Attendant told us that there is no means of communication with the outside world from this place no telephones, no televisions, only way to commute is by own car or city bus.


Wow! the girls were little scared but I was so trilled...

I looked at the sky above; there was a lovely spray of clouds. I looked at the majestic mountain. The cool breeze was almost kissing our faces. I looked at the valley and there was all darkness and not a single movement till the eternity it was all so quiet and composed. Everything was perfect, pure bliss. It was all like a dream. I wished if I would stay there forever without speaking a word, my soul was completely lost in the scenery.

As I came back out of this lovely dreamy feeling, the breeze, the sky, the day, had all ceased to exit and it was all getting darker.

Yes, we all headed for our dinner after which there was a lovely campfire and dance show arranged by the local tribes for our entertainments. After that we all went back to our cottage and crash landed on our beds into the real dreamy world.