The idea of this trip rose in my mind when Sujitha invited all to her sister's marriage at Pambanar, a place located at high altitude in the ghat road to Kumali on NH 220,near to Peerumedu and more importantly, near to Parunthumpara which is a famous tourist spot... I was one of the last person invited for the marriage since she didnt get me on phone and i was confused whether to missed call back seeing her missed call since i knew she called to invite....
I think of writing the trip elaborately since i feel this is the last chance to elaborate on any trip of S8. and also because the sadness of not able to write on Cherthala trip still lingers in my mind...
I had to put a little extra effort to get permission to take the car with friends to the hilly areas. Alike last time, this time the trip was preplanned. so we had enough and more strength in my WagonR to have a non-lossy trip.... We had decided to start at 6:45 from Nedumkuzhy..
We includes I myself,Neeraj,Midhun,Nibin(Tech),Aswin and Shown.The team was made 6 foreseeing the extra space available in the dicky which was made into good use by Midhun last time around.. Since it was Sunday, I decided on Saturday to go for 5:15 am holymass the next day though i had a late sleep at 1:30 am after a very good conference call with Kutty and Neeraj..
Finally the Sunday came and it had a perfect start at 5:10am.. I entered my car and drove about 300m just to realizze myself that the front tyre was punctured... Such a fine start to such a foreseen trip.... I had no other way other than to change the tyre.. Having changed the tyre, I went for holymass.. I managed to arrange a stepny tyre for my car from a relative who had come for holymass..
So i started from Pala at 6:30am with Sherin and Jose who had to be dropped at college.. And the team was formed at Pampady with just Midhun left to join us.. he too joined us at 14th mile.. So the tightly packed wagonrR drove towards the destination.. Passing through Ponkunnam, Kanjirapally and Mundakayam,we started to move up the ghat roads.... It was soon after we started the uphill journey, Midhun showed the sensation to vomit which was almost unexpected.. So we had an unexpected halt... We didnt have our breakfast yet.. So we bought biscuits to calm our hunger.... There was yet another stop at Peerumedu for the same purpose.
We thought of visiting Thekkady, then thought of first going to go to Paruthumpara which is a famous tourist spot.. When i spelled Parunthumpara, Nibin just heard 'P' and started enquiring if we r heading to Poochaakkal.. He just knew one place starting with P and it was that.. Searching for last 3 yrs, but not yet discovered.. Anyway We reached there in a clear and pleasant environment.. It was then a police jeep came there.... It was followed by another and almost five other jeeps and police bus.. Midhun was too tired and was sitting in there calmly and we went for a walk.. The climate now had changed.. It was too foggy and the viewing distance had become too short and everything was covered in snow...When the fog cleared for a while, we saw Midhun surrounded by three policemen.. They might have thought he is another Kasab with "naaranga bomb"(he held a lemon to smell to avoid vomiting) in his hand.. Or might have thought he started vomiting after getting drink right in the early morning.. Anyway we went to him and enquired wat the policemen enquired and found nothing was wrong.. We 5 again went for a walk.. Then we found a rocky place just at a distance and required little more effort to reach. So we went there.. we took photos in almost every angle.. Like the tech said,, 30 degree inclined and 30+30 degree inclined etc...Except tech, the others had almost lost half or full breath by the time we reached back.. We almost suffocated and pained our throat and chest since we had a very hard running to conquer a tree which we later realized was just a guava..It was almost 10:45 by the time and we drove back to the actual destination, the auditorium at New Pambanar...
Our friends (23 others) had already reached there. We reached just in time to reach the "Thaalikettu".. It was over .. Then came the ever-memorable fight for a seat to have food... We were too hungry that we tried our best to steal a seat...Despite our effort to copy the strategy employed by the people there to get a seat, our attempt to get a seat in the first trip failed miserably..It seemed as if the people who managed a seat in the first trip had brought chairs from their homes... Anyway I managed or really fought and got a seat in the second trip.. There were still our friends who couldnt manage one .. I couldnt divert my attention to anything since i was too hungry.. We had a nice lunch and it was then the time for the next character "Pambanar Rajeev/Raju" to enter the scene.. Devi knows who he is.. I am not mentioning more on him.....
We then left to Alex's uncles house through a way which he told is the shortest possible, but infact made us feel,was the longest possible... We reached there, had coffee sessions, photo sessions etc.. i donno why Purushu's nature is identified correctly by all. The aunty there told Purushu to take the snacks and not to take away the plates in which snacks were served..
Then all moved to parunthumpara in an auto and our car..The no inside the car now increased to 8 which included Achu and Jismy.. We 8 had a short but mind pleasing visit to the most famous pilgrim centre, the church of Pattumala Velankanni Matha. Then we too went to Parunthumpara.. All had an hour of enjoyment, photo shoots and pleasant walks in the cool climate there.. We started back at 3:30pm.. The auto ride back from Paruthumpara will be there in the minds of atleast one person....
The WagonR was most tightly or infact saturated to its maximum COMFORTABLE capacity (8) with the dicky space also efficiently utilised by Midhun.. Sherin had Achu in her lap and Aswin had Shown in his lap.. We had another unexpected stop on our way.. This time too, the reason was Midhun who again went for a vomiting.. This time he made the situation worse since he couldnt put his head out since he was placed inside the dicky. So despite having two BIG girls in our team, I had to clean up the car dicky and the headrests..... after this halt, the positions were changed.. Aswin got the safest and most relaxed seating in the car after the driver's seat, thats the dicky.... We then halted at Mundakayam and had a dosai and coffee..
The group was divided at Ponkunnam when neeraj,nibin,shown and aswin went to hostel and we others came to pala. midhun was too tired that he was here in my home at night..
Thus came an end to an memorable trip with lots to remember and cherish...... The day is gone and now i sit back and write this today recollecting all the beauty of the tripwithout studying not even half a module for thursdays exam.. Now like all others, I too have to get back to my studies.......
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