Itching for a trip since I joined this job, this one was the trip I (un) planned for the trip from the very beginning. A three day weekend in October seemed to be perfect time for the Munnar visit.
Vehicle: Sumo (me, nj, srikar, chopra, bharti)
Indica (Srikar’s friends)
People: 5 + Driver
4 + Driver
Well… leaving Bangalore (at around 9 in the night) I realized for the first is one of the most tiresome, time consuming and irritating part. Anyways at around 12 we were out with most of us sleeping. Cut to 7 a.m. in the morning. We thought we must be 3-4 hours away from Munnar, but then came the shocker. Our driver has taken some random route, we were somewhere near thekkady and still with more than 400 kms to go for Munnar (BTW if you do not know Bangalore – Munnar is approx 400 km itself).
So after little bit shouting on driver we continued the journey. Stopped at 3-4 different places (photo shoots etc.) and finally reached Munnar at around 9 (exactly 24 hours for a 12 hour journey). As we started our ascend the feeling of reaching some heaven started creeping in. Now here we had more good news – due to long weekend the hotels were full and the food was over in most restaurants. After searching for more than half an hour got something to eat, which for vegetarian was ….
And btw, it had started raining by then. So, now the search for shelter began. After we were shown some very random places, a drunk guy came to us say he had a place. So apna bharti went with him and returned after a long time bringing the good news. So, now we followed him back to the place (approx. 2 km) in complete darkness. We were just thinking that the cottage doesn’t belong to some pschyos who might kill us in the nights (ok… it was just a side effect of watching so many Hollywood thrillers :P). With some minor disruptions like taking a wrong turn etc. we finally reached this cottage almost at the end of the road. So there we were finally ready to sleep in a cottage just nice and fine.
The morning: I, obviously, woke up first and when I went out I realized what a wonderful place we were in. On three sides you can just see greenery and valley besides hearing sound of water. It was simply awesome. Soon everybody woke up, a photo shoot session followed and then we left for some place around Munnar enroute to Bangalore. Things that followed were some shopping (chocolates etc.), few photo-shoots, dinner, altercation with driver, passing a reserve forest in a hope of seeing some elephant kicking the Indica in front of us etc. In the morning we were, unfortunately, again in Bangalore fighting with the driver on payment.
Why the trip will be remembered: Overall the trip could have been much better if driver didn’t screw it. But anyways won’t be forgetting that cottage experience - I know for sure.
Vehicle: Sumo (me, nj, srikar, chopra, bharti)
Indica (Srikar’s friends)
People: 5 + Driver
4 + Driver
Well… leaving Bangalore (at around 9 in the night) I realized for the first is one of the most tiresome, time consuming and irritating part. Anyways at around 12 we were out with most of us sleeping. Cut to 7 a.m. in the morning. We thought we must be 3-4 hours away from Munnar, but then came the shocker. Our driver has taken some random route, we were somewhere near thekkady and still with more than 400 kms to go for Munnar (BTW if you do not know Bangalore – Munnar is approx 400 km itself).
So after little bit shouting on driver we continued the journey. Stopped at 3-4 different places (photo shoots etc.) and finally reached Munnar at around 9 (exactly 24 hours for a 12 hour journey). As we started our ascend the feeling of reaching some heaven started creeping in. Now here we had more good news – due to long weekend the hotels were full and the food was over in most restaurants. After searching for more than half an hour got something to eat, which for vegetarian was ….
And btw, it had started raining by then. So, now the search for shelter began. After we were shown some very random places, a drunk guy came to us say he had a place. So apna bharti went with him and returned after a long time bringing the good news. So, now we followed him back to the place (approx. 2 km) in complete darkness. We were just thinking that the cottage doesn’t belong to some pschyos who might kill us in the nights (ok… it was just a side effect of watching so many Hollywood thrillers :P). With some minor disruptions like taking a wrong turn etc. we finally reached this cottage almost at the end of the road. So there we were finally ready to sleep in a cottage just nice and fine.
The morning: I, obviously, woke up first and when I went out I realized what a wonderful place we were in. On three sides you can just see greenery and valley besides hearing sound of water. It was simply awesome. Soon everybody woke up, a photo shoot session followed and then we left for some place around Munnar enroute to Bangalore. Things that followed were some shopping (chocolates etc.), few photo-shoots, dinner, altercation with driver, passing a reserve forest in a hope of seeing some elephant kicking the Indica in front of us etc. In the morning we were, unfortunately, again in Bangalore fighting with the driver on payment.
Why the trip will be remembered: Overall the trip could have been much better if driver didn’t screw it. But anyways won’t be forgetting that cottage experience - I know for sure.
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