Publish date : 3rd Jan 2007
hmmm…
Its been a wonderful trip indeed… We joyed a lot.. Following is a little about the trip! Pictures will talk more..
We:
Vijay (my bro), Vinoth, Kubhi, Krishna, Arun, Praveen (Arun’s Brother), Senthil, Dhanshekar and ofcourse Me..
hmmm… Where to start…
Thats the wonderful evening of 30th december..
A little before the journey, Krishna and the rest were on leave that day confessed, they yet to buy few stuff for the trip.
Eventhough its not written in our room digest, I expected this.. Failing my other expectation, Senthil said, he is ready for the trip.. hmm…
In catching up some beach shirts they spent one more two hours.. Finally, the Tempo traveller came on time 1.5 hours later.. Special thanks to Dhana who made this trip wonderful by arranging a good vehicle..
Shaklespur road did the ravage and we ended up in our Beach resort (Palm Grove, Mangalore-Udupi) only by 10 AM on 31st.. Beach was glistening with glory.. wow.. Am saved.. With a little snake that gave us a chill in the spine we had our bath and breakfast, few vice versa.
Next was to the Queen Mary’s Island 7kms from Malpe beach invited with the fist stench unbearable.. We boarded a boat that took 15 minutes to get us to the Island.. Nature wonders!! Basalt rocks! Hexagon columns formed naturally by rocks, that too 7-10 foot high..
Later of the day spent in the beach and returned to the resort by 6 pm.. and Sun waited exactly for us with 5 minutes spare to its set..
Those 5 minutes, the last sunset of 2006 was aesthetic with flame orange!
We found ourselves in the beach with the waves around us!! With a foot ball, warm water made us to forgot where we were!.. Soon enough I was outta the game and with a fresh water bath resumed to beach where we spent the rest of the day on a rug..
It was wonderful to sit and to listen the conversation of the breeze and the water..
With some Camp fire, a 2.5 hour of worthy talk (Ther izukkarathu thaaan..what else) we realized it is 3 minutes to New year.. With the crackers rocking the sky and campfire ruling the sand, Kubhi already on his way to dance around the fire with foriegners.. Rest joined before it was late..
Resumed to dinner later that.. yes after 12:30.. ;-)… Then what.. Slumber.. zzzzzzzz…….
Day 2:
Morning I was the one who got up so early (by 8:30) to realize Praveen was already on the beach after his bath.. phew.. With a fresh coffee, little table tennis, some cricket, later the break fast, walk with arun …hmm.. within this time, rest have completed their chores..
We checked out..
Next was to Karkala on the way back to bangalore where Bahubali (Jain tample).. With the prayer, Senthil could have kept silence.. To his bad time, he said, “Mahaveer is the another name for Budha” that too to Vijay standing on a Jain temple.. Assume the rest..
Next was to kudremukh where we drove through the hilly hilly roads.. Breathtaking views and numbing cold.. with anthakshary…
With the delightful understanding of kannada driver made me to agree to hornadu where he meant lunch.. (“Oota”)..
Thats the temple, “Annapoorneshwari” where we headed last time with our parents in the parents trip.. Now I realized, he meant the free oota in the temple..
To my good time, it was late for the free oota, still we caught something opp to temple in the name of lunch after the dharshan..
Then with more view and some photo sessions got into the highway with the tower view of Belur temple.. National monuments..
In a cozy(?!) dhaba we had our dinner and then.. journey again.. around 4’o clock in the morning we reached.. with wonderful memories…
