God's Own Country

It was the mega trip of the 20th Batch we decided to go and the place is Kerala-Cochin, nice city to visit we decided to go by bus and booked 2 buses and planned for 3 day trip, we left from Trichy BIM hostel on 12th of March 2005, with good number of students of 82 around 9 p.m, finished the poojay on the way in a temple, and started moving now it was journey we kept moving in between we stopped and enjoyed and had tuff time again calling people to board the bus. We reached the place we are going to stay for the first day a Ashram called Shanti Giri, nice beautiful place to stay and after having the Kerala type breakfast we moved towards Veegaland, a water theme park, for fun,fun,fun...etc. Had lots of fun for rest of the day, now its time to leave around 5 p.m, getting again people back, was a tough time. At last we moved from there around 6 p.m where i got upset and reached back the place we are going to stay, i decided not take the dinner and slept. Thats the end of the Day1 of the trip. The Day 2 for the trip we decided to go Athirapally Falls and Cherai Beach, after having the breakfast its time to check out from the place and left to Athirapally falls, on the way we were joined by Thatha and Sabari, and later Guruji and Nair also joined on the way to Athirapally falls, by the time we reached the falls it was hot sunny day, and to avoid getting headache i moved out from the place and we all had a good lunch near the falls, after having the lunch we moved towards Cherai Beach, a beautifull beach spent the rest of the time and then left towards to Marine Drive of Cochin to spend time for shopping and everyone had their dinner in marine drive. Waited waited and atlast everyone reached to move from the place to day 2 stay around 10.30 and we satyed in the place a beautiful apartment converted hotel. The end of Day 2. The next day, started with more beauty of backwaters and after having our breakfast we moved towards Cochin Backwaters for a boat ride, it was a boat ride for more than 2 hours and had our lucnch at Boulgaty Islands and spent sometime in the island where it is surrounded by water!!!. We left from the island and moved towards back to Trichy from Cochin around 5 p.m and atlast reached back next day around 5 a.m.

My Moments in the tour: It was a unforgettable tour for me and it was toughest assignment to handle such a large gang of people. Did I enjoyed the tour? the question I still ask to me after comig back.