Mode: Tempo (Bangalore - Kodaikanal - Munnar - Coimbatore - Bangalore)
Date(s) of Travel: September 24, 25 & 26, 2010
You can read more about the place(s) here: Kodaikanal Munnar
My Experience:
1. Me and my colleagues boarded the nagercoil express train at around 11.00 PM from bangalore to kodairoad. We reached kodairoad at around 8.30 AM the next day and we arranged for a tempo traveller to kodaikanal.
2. We reached kodaikanal around 12.30 PM and it was drizzling which was so pleasant. We met our trekking guide "Kodai mani" who organizes this trek. He is a money minded guy and never guides people. That is the experience we had from that guy.
3. We travelled by another tempo to Berijam which is the starting point of our trek. The view on the way from kodaikanal to berijam was quite beautiful. We started trekking around 1.30 PM and after sometime we were quite deep inside the forest. It started raining after sometime and it never stopped. The whole way was full of leeches and everybody was so freaked about that.
4. After three hours we stopped near a lake for our lunch. Then again we started to walk and reached a village around 6.30 PM. After having some refreshments in a tea shop, we bought some raw materials for dinner. From there we started walking towards another village called Naatampatti where we gonna camp in the night. We reached the place around 8.00 PM and it was a forest guest house.
5. After having good dinner and some camp fire, we hit the sack. It was very cold in the night. Next day around 8.00 AM we started to trek towards Kovizhur. I would say, we walked a lot and crossed a few waterstreams. It started raining so heavily and lot of people started getting cramps. The last stretch of reaching Kovizhur was so thrilling as it was very steep and muddy due to the rain.
6. Finally we reached Kovizhur around 7.30 PM and everybody was so tired as we dint had lunch. From there we went by a jeep to munnar. We stayed in a small hotel which was pretty comfortable. Next day morning around 11.00 AM we started to coimbatore by jeep. The three hour jeep ride from Munnar to Chinnar was so beautiful as there were tea plantations everywhere. We spotted some waterfalls on the way and it was quite scenic.
7. In the night, we boarded a bus to bangalore from coimbatore.
Thought of Day:If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein
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