Friday, November 18, 2011

God's Own Country


As already mentioned, we had a trip to Wayanad some 2 months back. It’s a hill station in Kerela. We were 2 couples and 2 bachelors in all. One of the friends was coming from Pune in a late night flight. So we decided to pick him up from the airport and start the journey directly from there. We gave him a grand embarrassing welcome with garlands and “Bambai se aaya mera dost.. “ playing in background.  While we were discussing our plans of garlanding him, our cab driver asked if we have to go to the International airport. Sheesh.

Travelled for the whole night, talked, napped, and sang along the whole way. We covered two National Parks on the way – Nagahole and Rajiv Gandhi National Park, saw a number of deers, elephants and monkeys.

Travelling within Wayanad was fun. Our rooms of the resort had amazing, breath taking views. Had a campfire at the resort at night, there were leeches too.
 Covered a number of tourist points there like Bansura Dam, Pokode Lake, the best one being the Soochipura waterfalls. Watching the tea gardens is a treat to the eyes. Came back via Mysore, since it was Dasshera time, we got to see some cultural activities in a wonderfully lit Mysore Palace.

All in all, had a memorable time. J
Below are some pics : 

                                                 
                                                    Nagarhole National Park





                                                       Animals at Nagarhole


                                                           Splendid, isn’t it?




                                                            Bansura Dam



                                                            Campfire


                                                        Tea gardens




                                                         Nature at its best




                                                        Soochipura Waterfalls


                                                                  
                                              The grand Mysore Palace

2 comments:

Manali said...

I too loved Kerala...Honestly I think India is God's own country
Keep on enjoying :)
I must say you did a great job with your camera !!

~Manali

MMK said...

Wow..so refreshing to see this. There should be more such tours.. keeps the life interesting :)