A trip to Wayanad in Gods own country - Phase I - Planning

Guys, I like to share my wonderful experiences with you during the Wayanad trip. This trip was planned in such a time that we guys doesn’t have time even to see each other. Everyone are busy in their work and everyone had some or other issues going on their projects. Above all its appraisal time. Anyways. Go to Hell.. we guys are leaving Chennai... That’s it..But where to go ?

Firstly we wanted to run away from Chennai at least for 2 to 3 days. One of my friend came up with this idea, "Why don you guys go to some nice place that’s totally different from Chennai. A place that is not polluted, not crowded, no more vehicles, noises ,good water, beautiful sceneries’ and especially green”. We were excited with the idea but where is it? Is it possible to plan for such a place in in 3 days trip. Also we have to consider the budget too. After much brainstorming we got this picture. “Wayanad”.

Here I have to say something about Wayanad. “Wayanad” is a district in Kerala (God’s own country). The specialty about this place is almost the district is situated on top of the hills only. Beautiful place. Its has more rainfall and awesome temperature. After hearing this facts and few pictures from sites/blogs made us thrilled. Obviously because we are in Chennai, a place of that kind would be in our dreams always.


The factor is transportation. We found that there is a train from Chennai Egmore to that place. Its Mangalore express which goes via Calicut. Calicut is the nearest place to Wayanad, so we planned such that to reach Calicut via train. Considering other facts on travels such as cost, time and road risks we preferred train. We booked the ticket immediately in that train itself as it’s a busy train and you don’t get the tickets later. Though we couldn’t get the return tickets. We booked our return tickets such that we have to get down and board the next train.

Somehow we have the transport ready now, and what’s the plan? What we going to do once we reach Calicut? Truly speaking.. There is no such plan. Firstly run away from Chennai, reach Calicut then see about the plan. So weired rite? Coz people wont do this normally, that too you are going for a unknown place, long distance, almost 14 hrs of journey and everything with out plan..!!!! Hmmmm..That’s us..That’s the real me.. Trust me..All my wonderful trips doesn’t had any plan.

So the day also finally came, it was a fine Thursday and I took permission from my PM by giving the true reason(usually I never do? Better I say, I never liked to cheat her, Cheated her – Please, some one take her to this page). I reached station and few of my buddies were there already. Something I have to say here, we had 3 guys coming from the same project-team. And their PM also came along with them..!! So anyways we got a company, it will be more fun.

We boarded the train once everyone are in. Before settling in our seats we made almost the whole of platform watch us. We were so much excited and everyone are shouting, teasing each other, pulling the PM ‘s leg always. The excitement was not because of Wayanad or we are leaving Chennai. Its all because we saw each other after long time and everyone there on a working day, especially with no work. Finally when we settled in our seats, goosshhh near to our cabin its some girls university students nativities of Calicut and Mangalore. Are the girls from Kerala really beautiful? No more questions.. we are in a mood to say only “YES”.





Our excitement was doubled because of the angels..!!, and again the only sufferer was my friends PM. We teased, made fun on each other..lots of talks, laughs and it went up to 12,12.30 in the night when we decided to sleep. Finally we slept after getting some good advise from other travelers LOL. The next day morning I woke by 5.00 AM and I saw the senior member of our team (PM) was standing near the door. [No guys..no no.. he is not gonna sucide coz we teased him a lot.. ]. I asked him whats the matter.. “ I think the one before station we crossed was the Calicut, coz I saw something written like Kolikodu..” , WHAT???!!! I screamed.. He said calmly, I think Kolikodu and Calicut are the same.. Now I seriously thought why shouldn’t I really push the guy now..



Hmmm…I waked up all the guys, we got down on the very next station THALASSERY. When we get down in the railway station it was raining, not heavily but enough for us to get drenched completely. One thing I like to share with you people, Kerala is the place where its rain most of the time. So now we are in a Kerala, far away from a railway station we are supposed to get down and completely drenched. We couldn’t get the next train schedule neither we have the ticket. From there we decided to take an auto rickshaw and reach the nearby bus depot.

Despite of the autowala overcharging us we reached the THALASSERY bus depot nearby. We thought that the starting itself not good. Within a minute it become even more worst when my friend came to me and said that he lost his mobile.Ohh..this is not going to be good. We started calling his mobile and luckily he got some balance as we are in roaming now. After few calls we heard a male voice and it’s the autowala. Thank god, he being so generous said that he will hand over the mobile to us by coming back to the bus depot.

But again, some more problem. He got a long trip and he is on it, so we have to wait there and no idea when he will be back and how long will it take also will he come back or we are wasting our time in vain..!!!

As far As I can say now.. “We are in Kerala, far away from a railway station we are supposed to get down, far away from the place we planned to go, completely drenched, lost one of our pals mobile, waiting for a autowala who might or might not come and most importantly we don’t know what we going to do next”!!!

Uffff…!!! Mudiyala… Where the PM first..Yaar..I couldn’t see him nearby..Where is he…!!!???



To Be Continued..!

PS: You guys might be thinking “What is this planning,phase etc etc ..Guys, remember..I am a software engineer..” He he he..