This post is about my 'First Team trip'. I penned down this a long long ago(in 2007), but never completed it. Saw this when I went through some of my old files. Just thought of sharing this in the half written state. I couldn't collect back all the memories to finish this post now ;-)
We went for a Team Trip to Wayand for 4 days. We started from Chennai on 4th October, 2007 ( Thursday ) and came back to Chennai on 9th October, 2007 ( Tuesday ). This trip is the most enjoyed trip in my life, so far.
We were on a tour mood on thursday and were discussing various things. We went to the Central Railway Station from our office in a 'Mahindra' Van. We were atleast half-an-hour early to the station. Kospet, the senior most person( in his slow activities) in our team, bought some playing materials (may be for his grand children) in the train. We chatted for some time. Every one said about their 'sights' of School/College days. Kospet and Mukamil, the youngest boy of our team, had a very big list. I kept my mouth shut as I had nothing to say.
As we approached Kozhicode, the climate was cool. We saw water everywhere. We took some snaps. Train was late and we reached the Kozhicode station half-an-hour after the scheduled arrival time. Shinoge, a driver in S.N. Presidency Travels, was waiting for us with a board, saying 'MANIKANDAN', in his hand. We had our breakfast in Kozhicode. From there we went to Thusharagiri falls which was on the way to Wayanad. I wanted to be the first one in my team to enter the falls. The rocks were slippery. My enthusiasm took over me. I was careless and I slipped through the slippery rocks and became the first one(the only one) to slip down in my team. There was no one to disturb us. We enjoyed this spot a lot. We were there for about 2-3 hours. As we were all tired we directly went to our place of stay without going anywhere else.
We stayed in P.P.S Tourist home. It was clean and neat. Five of us went for a walk as we have got a lot of time that evening. There were tea plants every where. The climate was good. We went for a short walk after the dinner we had in the Restaurant attached to our place of stay.
The second day ( Saturday ), we were ready to go out by 9:30 AM. We finished our breakfast and headed towards Chembra Peak for a trekking. The hill was almost covered with tea plants. A team of about 5-6 members were before us who have started their trekking. They were checking their shoes for leeches. Each one of them had 1-2 leeches inside their shoes. Kospet started checking his shoes. That made all of us laugh as we are yet to start our trekking. We started our trekking. Vidya was the first one in our team to have a leech in her leg. The leech haven't started sucking her blood and hence it was very easy to remove the leech. As she saw the leech her energy level has reduced drastically. She wasn't able/not ready to continue the trekking. Madhan (our கணக்கு பிள்ளை), Mani, Kospet and Vidya decided to take rest and go back. Remaining seven of us continued our trekking. As we go higher and higher the path was very steep. Dr. Allu ( Ph.D. in photo posing, then called Mukamil ) and Master ( at times called Chandru ) felt tired and they too decided to go back. Balaji, SRK, Yejaman( then called as Shankar), Meena ( my sister ) and myself continued our trekking. We felt very thirsty and we had no water to drink until we saw a narrow water stream. The water we drank there gave us enough energy to reach the top of the hill. SRK had a couple of bananas which he exchanged with a guy from another group for a chips packet. We recorded some videos there and returned back. This trekking will stay in our minds forever.
We were on a tour mood on thursday and were discussing various things. We went to the Central Railway Station from our office in a 'Mahindra' Van. We were atleast half-an-hour early to the station. Kospet, the senior most person( in his slow activities) in our team, bought some playing materials (may be for his grand children) in the train. We chatted for some time. Every one said about their 'sights' of School/College days. Kospet and Mukamil, the youngest boy of our team, had a very big list. I kept my mouth shut as I had nothing to say.
As we approached Kozhicode, the climate was cool. We saw water everywhere. We took some snaps. Train was late and we reached the Kozhicode station half-an-hour after the scheduled arrival time. Shinoge, a driver in S.N. Presidency Travels, was waiting for us with a board, saying 'MANIKANDAN', in his hand. We had our breakfast in Kozhicode. From there we went to Thusharagiri falls which was on the way to Wayanad. I wanted to be the first one in my team to enter the falls. The rocks were slippery. My enthusiasm took over me. I was careless and I slipped through the slippery rocks and became the first one(the only one) to slip down in my team. There was no one to disturb us. We enjoyed this spot a lot. We were there for about 2-3 hours. As we were all tired we directly went to our place of stay without going anywhere else.
We stayed in P.P.S Tourist home. It was clean and neat. Five of us went for a walk as we have got a lot of time that evening. There were tea plants every where. The climate was good. We went for a short walk after the dinner we had in the Restaurant attached to our place of stay.
The second day ( Saturday ), we were ready to go out by 9:30 AM. We finished our breakfast and headed towards Chembra Peak for a trekking. The hill was almost covered with tea plants. A team of about 5-6 members were before us who have started their trekking. They were checking their shoes for leeches. Each one of them had 1-2 leeches inside their shoes. Kospet started checking his shoes. That made all of us laugh as we are yet to start our trekking. We started our trekking. Vidya was the first one in our team to have a leech in her leg. The leech haven't started sucking her blood and hence it was very easy to remove the leech. As she saw the leech her energy level has reduced drastically. She wasn't able/not ready to continue the trekking. Madhan (our கணக்கு பிள்ளை), Mani, Kospet and Vidya decided to take rest and go back. Remaining seven of us continued our trekking. As we go higher and higher the path was very steep. Dr. Allu ( Ph.D. in photo posing, then called Mukamil ) and Master ( at times called Chandru ) felt tired and they too decided to go back. Balaji, SRK, Yejaman( then called as Shankar), Meena ( my sister ) and myself continued our trekking. We felt very thirsty and we had no water to drink until we saw a narrow water stream. The water we drank there gave us enough energy to reach the top of the hill. SRK had a couple of bananas which he exchanged with a guy from another group for a chips packet. We recorded some videos there and returned back. This trekking will stay in our minds forever.
Another spot that we visited the same day was Edakkal Caves. 'Herbal Masala Soda' that we drank there was quiet good. As we were late we missed a trekking there. Yejaman's demonstration of eating a hibiscus, Master's photo/video poses and train that we drove made our return journey full of fun.
The third day we visited three spots viz., Natural Dam, Pookat Lake and Sochipara Water falls. As only one of the speed boats is not functional that day we missed boating there. We took some good snaps there. Allu directed for some photo snaps with our model SRK. We enjoyed the pedal boating in Pookat Lake a lot.
2 comments:
So U had a very fun filled trip :-) Nice to read... Title pramaadham :-) Keep writing... Cheers
Enjoyed reading the post... So U had a very fun filled trip.. Keep writing... Cheers :-)
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