ours was the only of the four sections which could come up with a trip and even put it to action in less than 24 hours..after much deliberations on deciding the location for the trip, people seemed to have liked the idea of going to kerala.. i do not have very clear idea of why wynand was chosen over back waters..(i think backwaters was not an option at all..considering the 2 days time we had...nobody was keen on spending much time on journeying.)..
i did not take any part in the trip's organization.. the resort was selected ...orchid resort.. n we planned to go by a non-ac deluxe bus.. everything set..we were ready to leave by 11 pm of friday night... n we were planning to reach the campus back by midnight of sunday.. (monday we had to attend a class at 8.30 in the morning.. :(
the trip began... 37 of my section mates out of 65 came..the bus left the campus at 12.15 in the night...thus began our journey to the unknown realms of kerala....atleast unknown to me.. ;-).. the writing on the trip would be meaningless without the mention of our loving class representative...henceforth referred as cr... he was at his best in keeping the crowd lively.. gave us an idea of the places v may b goin to owing to the time contraints...v had to chuck lots of places..
it was with 'sec c rocks'..that v moved out of campus...
we had 7 hours of journey supposedly..(but it took us 8.5 hrs to reach the resort...)..one section of the crowd was extremely enthusiastic with lots of singing all through the night... the remaining of us were saving our energy sleeping ..for the next big day...
i opened my eyes at around 7.00..nnn by that time..we were in kerala...no ...i did not read any malayalam board, neither did i see any beautiful malayali girl... we all could just feel it by the change in surroundings... there were trees, trees n only trees... the color green as if redefined looked entirely special..the only problem was with the roads..they were tooo narrow for 2 buses to cross each other...
everyone was restless to get down n enjoy the pleasant morning.. atleast for some time.. finally owing to some traffic jam (!!!!!)...(remember!! i said something about the roads..).. some of us got down for tea... it was extremely cold.. compared to the slightly convenient warm morning weather of bangalore.. v walked for sometime.. the bus cleared the jam n there v were ready..n refreshed to start again to our resort..
reached the resort...it was beautiful... though out of the city...v were told..(it was really hard for us first timers to differentiate between in-city n out-of-the-city in kerala...).. humans do not seem to exist at alll... (in line with the saying ...'God's own country'.. )..
our guys have booked the entire resort.. if i remember correctly there were 3 types of rooms.. deluxe, ordinary(i doubt if this is the correct terminology..) and tribal.. most of us would have come across one or the other of deluxe or ordinary rooms..(nothing special about them..).. but the tribal ones r TRIBAL to the core.. made of bamboo sticks.. n some sorts of other plant stuff.. i remember seeing some of these kind in discovery channel's program sometime back..
some ppl thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..n asked for it.. i cant say anything as yet about their experiences with the bamboo houses..
soo there v were getting ready to visit the first place on our long list of sites... long ..atleast at that point of time.. unfortunately later v dint have enough time to watch any of those.. the long list shortened to only 2 sites... :(
will talk about our trip to kuruva island in the next one..
i did not take any part in the trip's organization.. the resort was selected ...orchid resort.. n we planned to go by a non-ac deluxe bus.. everything set..we were ready to leave by 11 pm of friday night... n we were planning to reach the campus back by midnight of sunday.. (monday we had to attend a class at 8.30 in the morning.. :(
the trip began... 37 of my section mates out of 65 came..the bus left the campus at 12.15 in the night...thus began our journey to the unknown realms of kerala....atleast unknown to me.. ;-).. the writing on the trip would be meaningless without the mention of our loving class representative...henceforth referred as cr... he was at his best in keeping the crowd lively.. gave us an idea of the places v may b goin to owing to the time contraints...v had to chuck lots of places..
it was with 'sec c rocks'..that v moved out of campus...
we had 7 hours of journey supposedly..(but it took us 8.5 hrs to reach the resort...)..one section of the crowd was extremely enthusiastic with lots of singing all through the night... the remaining of us were saving our energy sleeping ..for the next big day...
i opened my eyes at around 7.00..nnn by that time..we were in kerala...no ...i did not read any malayalam board, neither did i see any beautiful malayali girl... we all could just feel it by the change in surroundings... there were trees, trees n only trees... the color green as if redefined looked entirely special..the only problem was with the roads..they were tooo narrow for 2 buses to cross each other...
everyone was restless to get down n enjoy the pleasant morning.. atleast for some time.. finally owing to some traffic jam (!!!!!)...(remember!! i said something about the roads..).. some of us got down for tea... it was extremely cold.. compared to the slightly convenient warm morning weather of bangalore.. v walked for sometime.. the bus cleared the jam n there v were ready..n refreshed to start again to our resort..
reached the resort...it was beautiful... though out of the city...v were told..(it was really hard for us first timers to differentiate between in-city n out-of-the-city in kerala...).. humans do not seem to exist at alll... (in line with the saying ...'God's own country'.. )..
our guys have booked the entire resort.. if i remember correctly there were 3 types of rooms.. deluxe, ordinary(i doubt if this is the correct terminology..) and tribal.. most of us would have come across one or the other of deluxe or ordinary rooms..(nothing special about them..).. but the tribal ones r TRIBAL to the core.. made of bamboo sticks.. n some sorts of other plant stuff.. i remember seeing some of these kind in discovery channel's program sometime back..
some ppl thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..n asked for it.. i cant say anything as yet about their experiences with the bamboo houses..
soo there v were getting ready to visit the first place on our long list of sites... long ..atleast at that point of time.. unfortunately later v dint have enough time to watch any of those.. the long list shortened to only 2 sites... :(
will talk about our trip to kuruva island in the next one..
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