Once in Kodaikanal

It could be possible that there were no post at all any more in this thread.

But God thought it differently. To show some respect to that eternal power I am back again with some stuffs from Kodaikanal tour.


Let me start the story and keep reading it my friends...

When I look back and try to analysis my day to day work, I find I am thousand percent Bengali. I do plan for many things with my friends, 99% of which are undone forever.
But when it comes about traveling then I am ten thousands percent Bengali, without failing put few cloths on the bag, don't give a chance to rethink about cancelling the trip or re budgeting, along with my friends get out from home for known or unknown destination.


Few Bengalis in Bangalore were hit by the summer of 2007, and finally they came to a decision this is the right time to get out of the day to day life and decided to go to Ooty. Yes, you are reading right, It's Ooty not Kodaikanal. On e of my friends got the information there is a good and cheap resort near by Ooty. Also there was a long week end as Good Friday was there in place.
Everybody was charged up when they could smell a trip to Ooty nearby.

Mukhs my friend started working with the resort and discovered it's not at all in Ooty, it's in Kodaikanal and all rooms are already booked.
We thought it's like any other time when we want to go some place and people have booked all bus tickets, train tickets, hotels, resorts even before we can start anything.
Everybody was down. I started searching for different resorts nearby Kodaikanal.
But nothing was looking good and within budget.

Suddenly my phone started buzzing. It was Mukhs, "We have got the rooms, and people who booked before us some of them have cancelled it".
"WoW!" it came from my mouth spontaneously.

Then there was no looking back. After many discussions with many travel agents finally we booked one Tempo Traveler.

Finally in the Thursday mid night we started.

On public demand Poblai put the Sholay on DVD player. People were very much excited about the movie. But, within one and half hour almost everybody was sleeping except Mukhs, Kums and me. Anyway after sometime I closed my eyes also.

On the way we stopped 2-3 times. Finally around 6'O clock I woke up. We were near Karur town. Suddenly......

Finally we decided to take the Mahindra maxi cab for three thousands rupees. That took us to the Lilly's valley resort in Kodaikanal around 3:30p.m,

That place was cold, the sky was cloudy. Everyone was very much tired. Everybody was looking for hot water to have a pleasant bath. Even after waiting for 20 minutes it was not there.
I could not wait any longer and started having bath with cold water. Wow!! with the first drop of water there was a "dharmaghat" (Strike) in my body, apparently I could not move my hands or legs almost. Completed my bath like an express train and came out.

Everybody was waiting for lunch to be prepared eagerly. Everybody gathered in our room, leisurely passing time chatting with each other.