Unplanned planned trip

Hey Dude's!

I hope many of you would have guessed right what will be the core of this post, yeah you are correct it is about yet another trip. Most of us will  be using Whatsapp(I am sure many of us using the latest updated one) and part of one or other group like School friends, College Friends, Family, Society, Office, Bestie's etc. I am sure that at least more than 90% of us would have come across various trip plan (we will plan it even if we know its not going to happen). Am I correct?

We will have friends across globe some might be close to you some might be separated only by distance yes, I have few of my friends in Chennai (Madarasapattanam) we were friends from college days and we are part of whats app group too. At-least once in a year we will meet using one or other reason. Now this is overall trip history of boys who is making their life from Bangalore and Chennai.

Friends from Chennai will come to Bangalore or we will visit to Chennai. This time we had another idea (yeah I copied this sentence from one of our favourite ad). As usual we started a conversation saying this time we will meet in Chennai but one of My friend said there is a long leave from Jan 26th to 29th, so this time we will go to Thirunelveli (yeah same place where we will get sweet halwa). What a medical miracle most of gang people agreed for it (when mention most I considered only who will made for sure). We booked all of our tickets and all set for trip. If there is a trip without confusion or last minute drop/joinee will that be good? (nah) Yeah two people dropped from the plan one said that he will join with us on 27th. So now all the arrangements and adjustments has been done.

3 from Bangalore (Guest myself,  Commentator Alagar, Camera man Aravi), 3 from Chennai (Great Don,  Sponsor Chandru, Go Bro Deepak) and the next day joiner (Solai). Chennai guys reached the destination before us and waited in bus stand for us. We meet them as usual we exchanged our greeting in very good words (as we are meeting after long gap). Started to village called Sankaran Kovil from Tvl (Thirunelveli). Sponsor told that we have travel from 30 mins from Tvl to reach his home but it took double the time that is different story.

Day 1:

I hope most of us would have seen Singam movie(where Suriya will be roaring most of the time) there is a govt school in first part with name stating with Thilagar and that school was on the way that was the first place I remembered from the list. After reaching we had a good home food. Around after noon my friend explained the plan like we will go to river which is near by. When we started from home climate was cloudy I enjoyed the climate most. Once I saw river, I was so happy as usual for no reason. We had a good time, the point to be noted here is only 2 of us know proper swimming but all of us want to go together. The highlight story on day 1 is somehow we crossed point where it is deeper but while getting back it looked scary (only for non-swimmers). There were few village people around us one of my friend asked a small boy is place in front us is too deep. I got shocked by what he did, that small boy didn't utter a word he jumped in to that place and showed us how deep it was(easier way rite?). People from the bank said, just jump and give a push you will almost reach bank(dei inga nikavae bayama irruku ithula jump veraya inaiku landipa nan veetuku pogamaten). They asked me to jump first somehow I did what they said and came out near to bank. Next person was our commentator, he didn't jump instead he dived into water (yeah deeper place) in front of him(I was remembering that thaavuda sevala thaavu comedy) but somehow he reached safe. It started raining and tragedy part was father was standing in rain we asked him to go but he refused strongly. Reached home and had a food early because we know that we need to start early next day.

Photo from Sankaran Kovil river:

 Day 2:

All woke up by morning 3:00 AM as we wanted to see sun raise in Kanya Kumari. Friend have done the arrangement accordingly and we started exactly by 3:23 (that was the time in Cab) from home. Got a call from Solai, he told that he was near to some place so we had a discussion with Driver from where we can get him in to the trip? We stopped in some place for having tea in early morning around 4:45 AM and that was the point we informed to Solai to get down. He came around 5 or 5:15. Driver told that it is not possible to see sunrise that day because of the cloudy climate. We asked what will be good time, he told that we can go in the evening. We visited a place where there are harvesting rubber and it was a cool and awesome place. On the way to this place we saw a huge wind mills on both the sides of road.

Windmills from road side:



Had a refreshing fun time there and got to know that there was a river flowing near by we wanted to go there, got a few clicks from that place. Deepak took a under water video from which came out very good. But we didn't had a enough time to take bath there and started again towards a place called "Tirparapu" where they made a artificial water falls and this was our chance to take bath had a fun by teasing each other and saw a school students came there for their day out with their beautiful teachers(humour ila na life yae waste ilaya). Next place was the exciting one, which was built in Kamarajar period and that was second largest bridge in Asia. I hope most of you would have predicted correct yes, it was Mathur bridge. That bridge was built to carry water from one village to other village for agriculture that was the story what we heard from them and on top that hanging bridge there is a place similar to road where visitors can walk on that enjoy the view. We had few things like jujube (elanthapazham),then mittai, cut mango, pineapple for refreshing. That was the place where sun didn't shown any mercy on you.

Photos from rubber farm:







Under water video:




Pics from Mathur hanging bridge:















Next place which we visited is under Kerala govt control in Tamil Nadu yes it is Padmanabhapuram palace. Really the palace was the huge one it was difficult for us to find what is entrance place and what is the exit. Atlast we were exhausted when we came out from the palace (ivalo periya palace la yaru enga irruka nu epadi da kandupidinga). Then we had food some famous hotel (thats how they told) and food what they provided was worth for our Money. This was one of the trip where I was excited most of the time because we kept Kanyakumari beach which has Thiruvalluvar statue and Vivekandar rock. We went there on a full moon day because of high tide's they stopped ship or boat (whatever it is) to Thiruvalluvar statue. There was some good luck for us so we visited Vivekandar rock, took some photos, enjoyed beauty of the place and few other things. We wanted to take bath in beach but the place was not that good enough and crowded too. Our driver who came with us told that there is place where there will not be much crowd like this. We travelled another 30 mins and reached place called Sothavillai where no one was there. That was the fist time I saw the clear blue sea as how they show us in cinema. I just tried to taste the water it was too salty (uppa irruntha ena kaarama irurntha ena namaku enjoy pananum) still we played there for an hour. Then roamed near by market place, we bought gifts or things for memory from the local market. Reached home and again we took bath (ethanathadava happa). Had a discussion about buying halwa and we decided to get it on Sunday. Father told that Sunday the shop will be closed, so he asked how much quantity we want and he took a note, he told that he will buy for us. Played some card game and discussed about the places, photos that we took on the day.

Selfie from Palace:







Group pic from Vivekandar rock:




This is part 1 of our trip, I will update the part 2 with same post in upcoming weeks(mothama padicha tired aagiduving). Places in part 2

1. Courtrallam
2. Thenkasi
3. Agasthiyar falls
4. Agasthiyar Dam
5. Sankaran kovil Dam
6. Conclusion

I hope you will enjoy and this info will be useful for your trip to south TamilNadu.