Wayanad Trip

          Four of us went for a three days trip to Wayanad. Four may sound too less for you. Yeah it is, as the probables opted out from  trip due to some personal reasons I even thought of asking my college friends but later realised not to. Since all three of my colleagues couldn’t understand Tamil and me talking with my college friends in English is next to impossible I just decided not to include them. This holds good for my colleagues too since I don’t know hindi.
Day one : “Murphy’s Law”
We started our voyage a bit late ( may be 1.5 hours)  due to a punctured tyre .  A tightly packed  Indica rode on the Highway.  I felt indifferent on seeing monkeys and elephants in Bhandipur Reserve forest.  My colleagues seemed like enjoying those sceneries. Their ‘enjoyment’ was short-lived as we came to know  at Tamilnadu check-post that the diver  was indeed heading to Ooty instead of Wayanad  It was 56 Km extra journey (112 km two way). More infuriated we became, when  the driver told us that he just came this way because this road was good. After a long debate we reached a consensus of not paying him money for that 112 Km. We serendipitously got a brochure about Wayanad  in a hotel. That was very much useful for haphazardly trip.
Our first visit was karapuzha dam. It was just a bigger pit err..  may be a pond. But no one did show any sign of disappointment. After spending  quality time of one hour, we started booking hotels. I tell you, booking hotel on the fly is not a cake walk. We got a resort finally and the hit ratio was as low as 4.3%. The first day ended in a more serious note with a small fight between resort manager and colleague.

Day two : Dhoni’s Law

Edakkal  cave(இடை + கல் = middle + stone) was the first one in our check list. It was indeed a nice place to visit. A kinda trekking, but the best thing apart from !000bC to 4000 BC stone carvings and the Sanskrit and Tamil Brahmi  writings was the pretty Punjabi girls from Infosys( whom we regret now for missing the chance(s) to get acquainted )
Second visit of the day was absolute bliss since our expectations were low due to the chaos happened on day before. Meenmutti falls could only be reached by 1.5 km travel through jeep  on rugged path and around one km pure trekking. With the help of rope and other natural amenities available on the one feet way we trekked down to the falls. For us ( who were starved of enjoyment) the falls was awesome and jaw dropping. During the return trip we had to walk inside the cloud. The hutch girls followed us( please note we didn’t follow them, it’s the other way ) form falls to Tea stall. It was more like Dhoni’s law. Whatever decisions we took based on our instinct worked well though we didn’t have any valid reason for why we chose Meenmutti instead of Soochipara.

Day 3 “A typical Trip”

A hardcore trekker would have enjoyed that 7 am Chambra peak trekking. Man, I tell you it wasn’t so funny for a normal guy to trek 3.5 km steep mountain. yeah, but it was ‘different feeling’ . Only one place can be visited so we didn’t want to miss Soochipara falls as Meenmutty falls had exceeded all expectations . It is indeed a good waterfall but nothing was so significant about it and  be remembered for a long time. I thought we should have gone to Soochipara first and then to Meenmutty. I felt like reading ‘Deception point’  just after finishing ‘The da Vinci code’. While returning we visited Phantom rock ( described in the bronchure as ‘Magnum opus of Mother Nature’). As it was on the way we decided to give a shot. Nothing more than a little piece of rock (:P) was there. Our voyage ended with a spiritual touch by visiting centuries old Jain temple.
And the ultimate end was the fight with out driver @ 1 AM on the road ( the reason behind this fight is a big story altogether). The wayward driver was too stubborn to get his money and he said he would collect it through his owner. But still this journey would be remembered for a long time…

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