The Three Triangle ( Wayanad - Coorg - Ooty )

Day –0

It was thursday night at around 7.30 v were all supposed to assemble in chennai central.so me along with siddharth,govind,deepak,muthu and vignesh reached central at 7.20 . at the entrance v caught up with appy & bhuvaneshwar.so v guyz proceeded to platform 3 to board the train . the girlz as xpected came escorted by their parents. my luggage got torn in central due to heavy weight.(my mom told to make it two,but as i felt lazy to carry two ,i dumped everything into one).everthing set the train started and also started our enjoyment.as we were travelling with girls,the word “adjust” kept ringing in all of the guyz ears(sparing few).but we were there just to enjoy and we dumped all our luggages into one upper birth and gathered to play cards..it went on till late nite. and then we got a bit monotonous and slept off.

Day –1

The morning began bright(manjal veyil).again everybody started playing cards while i decided to retire from that and enjoy the greenz of kerela.the cool breeze along with scenic green coupled with manjal veyil leaves u breathless.to b on the safer side me ,bhuvaneshwar and sunil had the breakfast(very good dosa and idly) in the train itself.then at around 8.30 we reached calicut station and a bus and a minibus were waiting for us.so most of the guyz and some girlz boarded the main bus while the rest was left to find their way in the mini bus.so where r v proceeding to ? only me,bhu,sunil had breakfast ,so itz now time for the rest to fill their tummy.they let us on the main road and asked to b there at the same place an hour later but as we 3 had already had their breakfast we prefered to stay in the bus.i got down to get a bottle of water ,unfortunately the bus started and i have to accompany those who r going for breakfast and simply look at them eating.we then entered a small hotel .orders flown—idiyaapam,parotta,idly..after seeing everything i thought for a moment “had i made the mistake of having the breakfast in train”.i could clearly feel mr.parotta , ms. idly laughing at me.and one more thing i would like to bring to the notice is that “is kerela really a 100% literal state” .i don’t believe it. and i am sure all those who had the breakfast while i was watching them would agree with me.then we started proceeding towards wayanad(actually the place was known as sulthan bathery).on the way we started the ultimate-what else ? taking photographs and videos.first v reached “chain tree” .a big tree was there in front of which a small block along with the chain connecting the two was there.some ghost is believed to b arrested there. as a customary practise photographs were taken and i felt my stomach level was emptying a little bit and as a top up recharge i had two chocobars.then we proceeded to a lake.one of the major disadvantage with many places is that they charge too much for video camera to b taken inside.so i decided to hide and take the video camera into the lake only to get caught and kept it safe in the security room.then we entered into the lake and wat else –started boating..we took a pedalling boat and it was abdul and dass pedalling upstream and me and nagaraj pedalling downstream.unfortunately a leech bite abdul and blood starting coming out non stop. then all the available medical treatments were tried and after several minutes it stopped. then no visit to a place is complete without photographs.so it was taken and v proceeded for lunch.as i suffer from selective amnesia now i forgot wat happened in that period.from lunch to evening. so going ahead at around 5.00 we reached hotel regency in sultan bathery.from the entire tour,that was the second best hotel room provided.so officially we retired for the day.then we relaxed in the rooms for a while putting our cellphones,digicam batteries on charge and went down for a walk . it was a good one. the hotel was straight opposite to a theatre called aishwarya and if iam right it was mamooty’s “bharghavacharitham” and mohanlal’s “mahasamudram” playing there.i would like to mention about the service of hotel regency.if u order a dosa now u will b getting it only after an hour..(even 5 star hotels r faster ) and if u sit in a family room and order anything u will get it a bit early (say 50 minutes after u place ur order).so that’s it for day 1.

Day -2

The next day began as usual with lot of xcitement in store ahead.the agenda for the day was edakkal caves and suchipara falls.we had our breakfast in the restaurant itself while some who cant sustain hunger went out.so we went first to edakkal caves.buses and vehicles were not allowed beyond a point from where v have to walk for 2 km. as we were fresh v don’t had any problem in walking .morover the side views and scenery was so brilliant that we stopped to take photographs and we even took a mini video almost trying to match a scene in pitamagan(courtesy:sunil).so as we went ahead it was getting steeper andi was wondering how we r going to get down .so with less difficulty we climbed up.the entire view of wayanad from the top of the cave was so enigmatic.there was a local guide inside describing about the caves and the usual customary things (photographs) were taken and we started our way back to the bus.it was not that much difficult as i thought.we had a lime soda somewhere in the midway.so everybody came and the bus was on its way to the next location.wait……i forgot to mention about two important thing here.one is during the time v were going to edakkal caves everybody in the bus started dancing to the various kuthu songs played.everybody danced like hell.then the second thing is lunch.they did not stop at the proper place for lunch.so i prefered a sweet lime juice and few slices of bread with jam and sunil and bhuvaneshwar followed suit.while others went to fill their tummy.then came the final destination for the day-suchipara falls.those guyz who had decided to have a bash in water went miles ahead of us.(us denotes me,sunil,bhuvan).i don’t share a very good relationship with water ,so i preferred to stay away.so we three xplored the wat all the possible way v could differentiate our photographs from the rest and acted according to it and went late to the falls only to take the snaps of those who played with water and again it was a walk of 2km from the falls to the place bus was there.i lost all my strength walking.it was only bcos of my so called will power,i was walking.on the halfway,thanks to an old man,a lime soda came as an elixir.so somehow i managed to get into the bus and was resting.then the girls wanted to change the dress ,they did it inside the bus ,it was a blessing in disguise for me as i recharged with a tea,few bicuits and one more xploration on the other side .then after half an hour we got back into the bus and started ou way back to the hotel.theni realised just two days r over and my digicam memory stick is full,i wondered wat to do then on my way back to the hotel i saw a browsing centre and me and bhuvan went there and using the usb cable i transferred all the photos to a cd and emptied the memory stick.with a relief i went to bed.then rajmohan came to the room and told that they r planning to celebrate one my classmate’s birthday.so we went there and came back and retired for the day.

Day -3

The places scheduled for the day was wayanad wildlife sanctuary and island.after having breakfast we started for the wildlife sanctuary.the bus was dull that is no activity was going inside the bus and everybody was on to their seats some enjoying the scenic greenz of kerela and others listening to songs played in the bus or from their electronic stuff.we reached the wildlife sanctuary and found large number of our ancestors(monkeyz) welcoming us.after the customary prctise of taking photos we proceeded into the sanctuary.we were supposed to go in group of 8 in a jeep. so our group decided to go last.so after waiting for nearly an hour we boarded our jeep(we includes me,abdul,dass,sunil,nagraj,bhuvan,sidd,mohan) and went into the forest only to find a barren land.no visibility of any animals.fortunately or unfortunately our jeep got brokedown and we guyz xplored deep into the forest we found deers.we took photographs of it.(thanks to zoom facilities available in camera that we were able to build up that we saw deer from close quarters).then we tasted some spring water and heard some wild boar.then after waiting for nearly an hour our jeep came and we boarded and just got moving screaming and yelling.suddenly our driver asked us to stay quiet .for what? we guyz had the blessing to see the elephants in very close quarters(this time no camera tricks).at around 2.00 pm we reached the starting point only to find some misuderstanding between the students and staff.then we proceeded for the next place –the island.island was supposed to b closing by 5.00.so we must go there and finish it off everything before 5.00.we have just three hours at our disposal.the journey from wildlife sanctuary to island would take about an hour’s time and another hour’s time would be consumed for lunch.so we decided to have something light for lunch and proceeded to island quickly.unfortunately v reached the island after 5 and we just enjoyed the scenic view outside and completed the formalities and returned back to our rooms in hotel regency and had our dinner and checked out and mentally prepared for the night journey ahead.a group of 20 the mini bus much to our discomfort and i don’t know about others but i had a good sleep.

Day -4

The day dawned for us in the bus.we reached coorg at around 7.00 in the morning and proceeded for our hotel(hothel hilltown ,if i remember right).then we had our kaalai kadangal(brushing the teeth,toilets,taking bath,coffee)and proceeded for our breakfast.the breakfast arranged was a buffet with idly,dosa and all the side dishes that one could ask for the two.then we proceeded to abby falls.actually that was my second visit to that place as i have already went there while i was touring with my 12th classmates.to b frank,i forgot the place leading to the falls but once i saw the falls i was able to recollect my previous xperience.coincidently,i took a photograph with 3 of my friends xactly in the same place where i took 4 years back.then everybody enjoyed there and we proceeded to our rooms ant took some rest.while others took their lunch ,a group of guyz including me felt that their stomach doesn’t need recharge and went to their rooms.but their camera batteries need recharge.so v put that on charge and started watching wwe(smackdown)i was happy as i was watching it after a very long time.the the next destination was raja seat,a place from where v can have the entire view of coorg from a single place.it was an optional place and our group decided to take off and then at around 5.00 we started to copy the photos we took in a cd.on the way we saw a hotel(udipi hotel).this is the place where i had the best of my food in the entire tour.i ordered a dosa and it was too delicious and i ordered one more.sunil thought i was hungry and dosen’t bothered too much about it.then i ordered third dosa,he looked at me rather amusingly.then we guyz xplored the streets of coorg and saw a very good statue of lord anjaneya.what should one do if u find a rare thing.?i am sure u would have guessed it right ..we did just that and returned to our room and hearing don songs and whiling away the night.no cards playing and everybody went to their bed early that day.the hotel room in coorg was the worst comparing the accomodation at other places.

Day -5

The day dawned as usual and the agenda for the day was kaveri reservoir and a buddhist temple(known as golden temple) and decided to reach mysore by night.so had the breakfast(same buffet we had the previous morning).and started for our first destination.the time while going to reservoir we spent in the bus was interesting.everybody was given an opportunity to sing and everybody enjoyed those moments.then we reached the reservoir and it was like a park and we enjoyed the greenz though camera was prohibited there we took it secretly and took some photographs.then on our way out we had some tender coconuts and proceeded for our next station.the next place was buddhist monastery.that place was simply amazing with large number of monks praying.it was something i have never seen before.while returning back in the roadside shops our boys made some useful bargain to get some articles.and we were on our way not to mysore ,but for lunch.they had arranged for some buffet but we preffered to have it individually.so v guyz went to a nearby hotel and had naan,gobi manchurian and fresh lime juice.then we started our journey for mysore with usual singing and dancing.we reached mysore at about 8.30 and had our dinner and went to bed early as we were very tired.abdul was responding to naeyer viruppam(only balaji)and singing tose songs asked by him.

Day -6

The next day dawned and we were late in everything happened that day.we were supposed to go to palace by 9.00.but some boyz got ready only at ten and we went to the restaurant for breakfast.to our surprise we found only idly and poori available.so for stomach's sake we had some idli’s and proceeded for palace .actually we were not interested in seeing the palace as i have seen it n numbe of times and i was just interested in roaming in the streets of mysore and we reached the palace and i was not interested and was just accompanying them.to my relief suresh kumar sir asked us get back to the rooms quickly and we bouht a few things in the bazaar near the palace.unfortunately one my my friend,pratheep was accused by the shop owners of taking a purse and he tried to convince that he had not taken it,but it was in vain and he ended up paying rs.150 for no fault of his.then we proceeded to our rooms and checked out and went to chamundi hills and there was a little commotion there as few other guys teased my college girls and they ended up getting nicely from our guyz.from there we started our journey towards ooty-queen of hills .on the way we had a lunch at a place i don’t remember correctly.few guyz had vegetarians and those who preferred non.veg. enjoyed those dishes.then we continued our journey towards ooty.we were traveling through mudumalai sanctuary and it was a very good scenic evening which i would never forget in my life.we yelled like anything when we reached the tamilnadu border.at one place we stpped to enjoy some wild animals and took photographs and proceeded to have our dinner at hotel saravana bhavan(not related in anyway to saravana bhavan in chennai).we considered dosa as s safe bet and had that.and we again continued on our journey to the queen of hills.we were supposed to reach ooty by 11.00 pm in the night. but unfortunately ,due to rains a mini lorry was caught in the mud and our guyz tried to pull it back but it was in vain.so we got delayed by 4 hours there.and reached our hotel (rather cottage)by 6.00 am.

Day -7

As soon as we reached our alloted rooms,others went to sleep as they did not sleep the previous night.but i inspite of not sleeping properly got ready for the action ahead.then slowly everybody started getting ready.we had the breakfast in the nearby restaurant and got into the bus.the places to b covered up for the day was ooty lake and botanical garden.as i visite this place very recently with my parents during one of my semester holidays i remember the place xactly.so first we went to ooty lake and went for boating.after that we were just roaming in that place for sometime and we went for a game called jackpot.the game is “there will b a button,i u press it once the number starts appearing at a very high speed.u have to stop it somewhere between 995 and 1005.if u stop xactly at 1000 u hit a jackpot prize.apart from me winning that game six times in a row including a jackpot ,i won it for my friends also.then we proceeded to the next place –botanical garden.it was just a repetition of my previous visit there.we were discussing many things and i brought some home made choclates for my brother who gobbled them at no time once i returned back.then we were back to our rooms after having our dinner at the restaurant and got ready for the campfire that night.everybody was singing,dancing,and playing antakshari in that campfire.i would never get an opportunity to b in the same kind of campfire ever again in my life.then we retired for the day.

Day -8

This was the last day of the tour.after this mini proect,main project,semester xam would all creep in our minds again.so it began on a dull note .the idea for the day was dodabetta .so after having breakfast we proceeded towards dodabetta on three mini vans.on the way we went to a tea factory and got a complete picture of how tea is processed and i videographed everything.and in dodabetta customary photographs were taken and we took our group photo there and we proceeded towards coimbatore where we r supposed to board the train.on the way we saw the kothagiri bend and we reached coimbatore at around 6.30 so to while away time we were just going around in the coimbatore city and reached the station.few guyz who had their relatives at coimbatore went to meet them.and we had the dinner at vlr stall in coimbatore railway station and boarded the train and reached back safely.
I got no words to describe this tour.i really felt that this tour could have been xtended foranother 2-3 days.though there was lot of misunderstandings and inside things happened,i wish not to bring those to anybody’s notice and would like to stick on with the enjoyment part only.

This was the time i really enjoyed out with my collegemates .