Trip to Waynad and Calicut - 2

DAY 2 : By the time we reached calicut it was 2:00 in the afternoon and everyone were famished and were Drowsy due to lack of sleep . So first we found a hotel and had our stomachs full and went to beach. The calicut beach was beautiful, clean and calm . Few guyz were playing football in the beach, We also joined in with them !! I was playing football aftermany years and had a ball of a time !! But we lost miserably to them ( 5 - 0..hahah) and i was kicked all over my legs..oucchhhh my right leg hurts even now :(. we played footballtill 5:30. I was very tired, i just went and sat on the rocks. Arabian sea was swelling with recent monsoons . Sitting there and watching the sunset and rhythmic sounds emnating due to the waves lashing the rocks brought a strange soothing effect inside me. I remembereda line from shantaram book - " There is soo much of sea inside us. our sweat, our tears taste saltylike sea !! " . Came back to hotel at 7:00 and played water polo in hotel's swimming pool !!Had a superb dinner and slept of by 9:30.

DAY 3 : By the time i got up it was already 10:00 AM and my friend's were still sleeping !! so i slept again !!. By the time we got ready and left calicut it was 2:00 in the afternoon.Our next journey was to Edakkal Caves. Edekkal caves - Two caves are located at a height of 1000 m on Ambukutty Mala near Ambalavayal.The New Stone Age Petroglyphs on the walls of these natural caves at Edakkal are evidence of the civilisation that existed in these regions in prehistorical times.We reached edakkal caves at around 5:00 and locals warned us that caves are closed at 4:00 pmitself and it is very slippery and no light inside the caves at this time and asked us notto go there. As usual these villagers words instead of deterring us from caves fuelled us towardscaves !!. after a Steep climb of around 500m we reached Ambukutty Mala. It was already gettingdark but we continued on our trek. The entrace to the cave was around 6 feet wide and 10 feet high , It was a closed by a gate . We thought of climbing the the gates and go inside but due to lack of light and the danger of getting lost or slipping into the oblivion stoppedus. so making a promise that we will be back again we started for bangalore.We were driving back to banglore and it was around 9:30 PM and we were passing through Muthanga national park , Just after a curve we saw a herd of Elephants standing by the Road !! before we could realize We went ahead of them so we took a turn and came back again !! This time a huge Tusker was standing on the road !! But seeing the light it went inside the jungle ..ufff that was close and was foolish of us to do that. Later we came across a Bison herd.By the time i reached home it was 1:00 am. It was quite Rejuvinating , With a smile on my face i went to bed :)

Trip to Waynad and Calicut

Was having a jinxed up feeling from quite few days. I wanted break from this boring monotonous job life. So started planning for a weekend outing
We made a list of many places and started eliminating them based on distance and rains (Since many places are experiencing heavy rainfalls now) and at last we zeroed in on Waynad. Nobody had much information on this place, what we came to learn later is that waynad is the second highest rainfall region after Chirapunji and Mowsyram!!!!
We started on Friday night at 11:00 and Reached Waynad, Vythri at around 5:00 in the morning. The waynad is like heaven on earth. It is 6000 feet above sea level. Waynad is a place non pareil.
Day 1: We had to park our Car in Vythri itself as our Resort is 9 kms deep inside the jungle and the only way to access it is by a 4WD jeep or by trek.
So we took a jeep till resort. The resort was like a big haunted house from Ramsay movies. There were only 5 people in the resort and all of them were Like straight out of a ghost flick!! They used to stare at us whenever we go out or come in, they never used to speak. To make the matters worse the place was full of leeches!! We had hell time plucking them out of our body. The only other thing which is known to suck blood like leeches is Vampires
And these 5 people in resort were like vampires. My friend had a feeling that they will become vampires in the night and suck our blood .haha!!
Whenever a cloud used to pass the hill (Resort was on the edge of a hill) the resort would be covered by a thick white blanket and wind used to make a Eerie whoooooooooosh kind of sound and it was soo hard that one couldn’t hear what the next person was speaking!! . My friends were already on the verge of nervous breakdown and like last nail in the coffin; my dad called me up and told that Waynad is full of king Cobras!! And asked us to be very careful while walking. The place had no power so we had to walk around the rooms with candles or torch. Had a feeling that we were back in medieval times. The villa in which we were staying had two levels; One at the ground level and other underground!! So my friend murali felt that according to movies , ghosts stay in the underground and after much argument and persuasion I and Mahesh were pushed to sleep in underground !! murali , gopi and prabhu slept above safely. We had to keep the candles burning all through the night and there were strange noises like scratching, running, crawling!! In the room and Mahesh would sit bold upright in the bed even for a slight sound. Finally morning came after a painful sleepless night. Quickly got ready did all the settlements with resort guys and ran for Vythri!! Everyone was relieved to leave the resort.
After coming to Vythri, We resumed our journey to calicut. That’s it for day one :)
Will come up lots of photos and details about day2 and 3 in next post