MadeMyTrip!!!

Hi again...

earlier this month, on dates 1st to 4th, i went to a trip with my roomies. i wud like to share my experience.

we planned to go to munnar-tekkady-kodai kanal. planning part was superbly done. we were planning for a 4 day trip. but it took us about half a month to plan everything. but i shud say that i dont have much authority to say how tough the planning was, coz i joined planning team for last two days only. after everything was decided about the route (which i knew least about), places to stay (which i knew almost 50%) and places to be visited (number of which, after i entered the planning committee got reduced to one-third); we started to finalize on the way to go there. after much thought (just to say, we decided this in an hour ONLY) we decided to go by private vehicle. we visited a few travels offices here in bangalore, then decided one travels (do i have to tell on what basis?)

we left bangalore on friday night.i dont know what was goin on in the driver's mind. i think he had decided to turn our journey upside down. literally... he took us to kodai kanal first. anyway, we reached kodai kanal at around 11 in morning (or shud i say afternoon? naah, for me its morning. holiday yaar) then we searched for a cottage, took wash and all and then started searching for the basic need of mankind-food! and by good grace of god we found a good hotel just near our cottage. we ordered Rs.75 wala thali. it was UNLIMITED north indian thali. i ll give u the description of what all and how much we ate, some other time. for now i ll just tell that we entered the hotel at about 3 and left at about 4:30.

then we went and watched some points in kodai kanal. one of which was a shooting spot. that time i understood that the jungle they show in movies, is just a portion of land having a li'l dense mass of trees.

anyway, then we went forward to a rather high point. when we arrived there, it was almost clean and having good visibility; but within five to ten mins clouds started closing in on us to reduce vivibilty to almost 30% (cant help talking in %'s, that shows that engg has started flowing in my blood now. god help me!) it was a pleasant site though. we did some photo session there (which sure is a unsaid rule of trip!)

then we went ahead. now we arrived at a lake, in which we were supposed to do boating. but unfortunately (maybe fortunately), there was rush so we were not able to do boating. hence, we moved ahead.

then we went along a path known as 'coaker's walk'. spelling is right, its coaker's. there also, as mentioned earlier - photo session... then we had masala tea and we came back to cottage. there we spent about an hour.

we then went to a lake. frankly speaking that was the best part of stay at kodai kanal. we sat there along the shore, all six of us having masala tea (yeah, again!) after having the refreshing tea, we went back to cottage and had another refreshing thing. obviously SLEEP!!!

next day morning, we left the cottage and went on for tekkady. on the way we went to 'silver cascade water falls'. falls were good, if they had allowed us in; it wud have been awesome!

ok then, this was one third of my trip. now u can imagine how much we enjoyed... remaining two third, next blog. until then, alta la vista...