Monday, April 20, 2009

The Road Trip Munnar and Thekkady - part 1





















































Hi All

Its taken sometime for me to blog about the trip, catching up after driving around nearly 1000 kms in less than 4 days, viewing GODS OWN COUNTRY (truly -- no wonder they call it, right through my senses) and having fun, frolic and a very minor accident. Also would like to capture every day of the trip as a separate blog.

So here we go with day 1. 
We set out at about 10 am on Friday the 10 of April from Trivandrum, thanks to the overnight and early morning rain that disrupted our early morning start. We had all our gears ready, the map and the routes printed out, the fruits and the shorts eats stacked up, the Red Bulls for the energy, our bags and lastly the basic outdoor kit like, screw drivers, hammers and all the paraphernalia and not to forget google map and GPRS on the phone.

The drive to thekkady was truly great, all through Kerala, touching firstly Kollam and then Padanapuram (you really got to this accent right else, you can't reach this place and Rekha mastered this. Yes, its true, she can speak better Malayalam than Tamil), Pathinthita and then Kumily, where our room was booked. Thekkady is a 4 Km walk from Kumily. We reached at 4 in the evening after a 270 KM drive, non stop, except for the snaps which mother nature called for and of course, my very own nature's call. As it was good Friday, it was a dry evening and we caught up some sleep and dinner and were ready for the morning assault in Thekkady and the subsequent drive to Munnar the next day.

The best bit of the day was the cloud cover over the western ghats forming a true blanket -- if you want to figure it out you can imagine it to a bit like the table mountains in Cape Town in South Africa. Awesome sight -- Truly Gods Own Country.

Keep watching this space for part two.


2 comments:

  1. wow can't believe u had stocked red bull for energy. remember the trip we took to masanagudi?

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  2. great to know rekha is learning the language. am happy u guys have finally taken some time out to travel. wish you guys do more of these. and ya, hope u do not meet anyone next time. hehehe! lemme guess the eats u took - bhujia and biscuits...

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