It was a lazy start for us. I woke
up with a ring at the door, the cottage owner, asked me to move Santosh’s bike
a bit so that they can take their car out. I went out with my boxer shorts and
thin T-Shirt which I was wearing while sleeping. As I stepped out I felt the
effects of it. The chillness ran into my nerves and I immediately started
shivering. I managed to reach till Anto’s bike and then remembered that I had
forgotten the keys. Luckily I didn’t have to move the bike too far. I managed
to lift it a bit and helped their car out of the parking. My legs started
dancing automatically and I was still holding the bike with all the strength I
had. I didn’t want to drop it and again cause more damage to Anto’s bike. All
our bikes were also wet because if the early morning due, which made my task
just tougher.
As soon as the car left, I ran into
the room, and covered myself with as much bed-sheets as possible. Anto woke up
while I was still shivering. He asked to check for Tea or coffee and went to
get fresh. I was in no mood to get off the bed, and waited until I got a couple
of shouts from him.After the tea was served, we checked for things to do and
places to visit in Munnar.
We realized that some of the places
were already covered while on the way from Thekady. Anaimudi was on the way
home, and there was a national park around it. After checking out, we managed
to start our bikes in no time, despite the chillness. Thanks to the slope,
which helped us ride through it and do a cold start. We had breakfast and took
the Udmalpet road. The road was good; however we couldn’t enjoy the ride for
some time because of the upcoming traffic. We reached Anaimudi just to find
over 200 people standing on the queue to take a safari till the peak. We had
less or no option to leave the bags and bike just in the parking lot.
Anaimudi was dropped out because we
couldn’t take our bikes to the peak. At-last it’s a ride for our bikes, not for
us. We rode across few more tea gardens, and this time most of them were empty
without any workers. Seems they had their day off or they were just diverted to
other areas of the estate. Whatever it was, it was just a blessing for us,
because we were able to take few snaps in and around the tea estates. We rode
towards chinnar national park thinking that they might have few safari trips.
However they weren’t having many options as we thought.
While we touched the foothills,
almost 20-25 enfielders were just starting their day. They were riding towards
Munnar which was just a perfect ride for the weekend. We rode on the plains;
the roads were just getting smoother and wider. We were running out of ideas on
where to visit next. We weren’t having enough places around and most of them which
I knew around were temples. I didn’t want to just another temple and get a
swollen cheek while returning home.
“Okay enough, we’ll just have a
good non-veg biryani and go home!!!!”
Abhi said. And we started our biryani hunting.
“Okay enough, we’ll just manage
with a vegetarian meal” It was Abhi again, but after a 30 minute search around
the small lanes of Udumelpet.
We had an awesome veggie meal at
Anandhaas and were checking on the India-South Africa series. When we came out,
few small kids rounded us up and were cheering us. Waving them good-bye we rode
towards my home first. We already had a deal that if we had reached Coimbatore
before sun-set then the first stop was at my place.
Sun set was couple of hours away
and we were already near my home. I had been to my home in bike a couple of
times earlier, but after marriage this was the first time. I thought I would
get some severe blasting as soon as I was in. However Anto and Abhi saved me
from that. Most of my family members including my grandma were waiting for me.
I just read them out the complete
story in short. When my aunt started her list of temples saying that we should
have visited so many temples on the way, I saw Abhi slightly slipping out from
the chair. They decided to leave as soon as possible. Abhi stayed with Anto
that night and I agreed to meet them at one of our common friend’s home the
next day.
Mom came back from her work and
poured her share of advice, but she was happy that I had a very good Darshan at
the temples visited.
With an awesome home food, I went to my room and
got lost in my dreams. 
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