I'm continuing this story after a year and a half. All is well. Except 'scary'/sharath. He passed away on 25th november 2009. May his soul rest in peace. We miss you scary.
Cntd.
22 March.
5:00 am
It was 5am when i got up. Both Scary and Karthik were sleeping. It was very dark outside. So i didn't go out. When i went out it was 6am. It was chilling outside. I was amazed to see tea estate all around. Everything around was green. It gave me a i-am-in-heaven experience. Girish was standing on the next building and was capturing some snaps. I went to the terrace top to watch the sunrise. Chandan joined me there. Girish took our titanic-styled-photo. And we called it dostana-titanic. Everyone was standing on the balcony, waiting for the sunrise. But Kiran was still sleeping. Everyone(except kiran) started to scream when the sun started to rise. And the tea estate was looking even more beautiful.
After watching sunrise i got a shocking news. The news was that there was no hot water. So we had to bath in cold chilling water. Believe me, the water was as cold as fridge water. Kiran was still sleeping. So i jumped on him and woke him (even a dead body will come alive if jump on it). I then had a cup of coffee and joined pandey, uttam and ananth who were downstairs. Then took my luggage and kept it in the bus as soon as possible. Because i wanted the window seat.:-).
We began our journey from there and were nearing Munnar. There was a power generation plant which was similar to the one i saw in film Swades. Then we reached Munnar. Had our breakfast there. I had AalooParota. We took some snaps there and continued our journey.
No one among us had been to Munnar before. So we decided to hire a a guide. He stopped our bus near a tea estate to take snaps. Few tried to go to tea estate. But The guide promised us to take us to another tea estate and took us to a dam. It was a beautiful place. Speed boating was going on in the reservoir. So my friends decided to join them. I'd promised my dad that i-wouldn't-step-into-water. So i didn't join them and stayed in the bus. Karthik, pandey and Scary also stayed with me in the bus. Karthik purchased some gifts and i purchased carrots. Took couple of snaps holding bunches of carrots. After few minutes friends who had been to boating returned. They saw carrot in my hand. And everyone purchased it. We took funny snaps holding carrot leaves.
From there we went to echopoint. Nothing special in that place. Just we could hear the echo. But we made that place special. We were teasing abdul saying that if we scream his name, we would get x8 echos. I was screaming very loudly. We were screaming yentu, kuruma, kg, and we were getting good echo. Then everyone screamed MLA. Guess wat, the echo sounded M.A.(emme means buffalo in kannada). Some purchased chocolates. Menaka and Abdul gave me chocolates.
We went to another small dam before going to TopStation. As soon as we reached Topstation, i received an sms from vodafone. Saying Welcome-to-vodafone-tamilnadu. Then i asked the guide, he said that TopPoint belonged to Tamilnadu. From Toppoint we had to walk to reach the viewpoint. Guess what? We had to say Rs.15 to go there. Means Rs.15 to walk.:). We had to walk downwards for a kilometer or so. It was a beautiful place there. Nice cool breeze and mountains all around. In fact they were tea estate which belonged to TATA. The worst part began when we started to return. We had to step upwards. I and pandey reached early. Vishwa, kiran, ranjini, jayanti and kusuma were way back. I was sweating badly. It was cloudy. We reached our bus before it started raining. As promised earlier guide took us to a tea estate. Had not been to tea estate before. Took few snaps there. And returned to Munnar town. It was 5pm by then and everyone had their lunch. Ya.. Lunch @ 5:-). Then we left to Thekady. I was sitting next to Maheshwari. Was suprised to see that she had maintained a tour diary. She was noting some things. The road was very bad. But when began our anthakshari and dumbshrards, we didn't realise about bad roads. vinuta didn't join us. So she might be knowing about that bad road. Pooja was always a helpline. She wouldn't join any team. because if there's Lay's wafers pack in her hand she's out of the world.:-) We were tired. So everyone was silent. Kiran couldn't sit quiet so he took an empty bottle and threw on kusuma. And kusuma threw it back on him. And they began playing with empty bottles.:). By the time we reached kumily it was 10.30pm and we were 4km away from Thekady. Many wanted to have non-veg. So we went to a Halalcut non-veg hotel.:) all the items were made of coconut oil. So it was tasting different. Girish&co. stayed on fruits that day. By the time we had our food Girish had booked a lodge nearby. We continued our dumbshrards. And played till 1.30am. (Abdul showing mrugalaya entertained all). Everyone was tired and we decided to call it a day.. So it was end of day3 of our trip. One of the Most beautiful days of my life.
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