Munnar+Tekkadi+Shenga Group = ?

"Three feet above the heaven" is the substitution I can find as the placeholder for the question mark in the title. What else would have given me such a great pleasure??? It's the awesome trip I had from 21st dec to 25th dec of 2007. Probably its the best trip I ve ever had with our boys. But sadly everytime I go for trip with shenga boys, and at the end I feel "it was the best among all". Every trip we had gone so far had been best in its own way. But this one was king of all :)

Well, the discussion and planning started for the trip a month ago. To reach the conclusion we flooded google servers and Kiri made servers completely busy by exploring the map, posting the docs, gathering the contacts etc etc . And also we gave birth to shengatrip group on google groups :).

It was 11:15 on Friday night, we clicked the first photo and boarded the vehicle. A band of 9 shengas positioned themselves and new brand new shengas got added at first block Rajajinagar making a total of "shenga Eleven". We started celebrating the trip with beer cans even before we crossed blore. Borgal's awesome dailouges, Karna's and Giri's laugh and in between S.A.P SAP labs suri's dailouges made the journey remarkable.

Before we realized that sun has made his appearance, we were in Tamilnadu and finished all our morning duties in doorless/lockelss bath rooms :) ....Come on!! we are not that bad ... Water was there..... :) It was perfect saturday feeling for all of us as we were getting ready for breakfast at 11 in the morning ....... Oh No! Thinking how can it be morning?? ....:). To be frank it's my early morning on saturday. Well we repleted our stomach in gujju owned A1-plaza in tamilnadu with masala and rava dosas.

We were in the piece of the land of the"Gods own Country" called "Tekkadi" by 3. It would be injustice if I do not say anything about the kerala roads. The best roads I ve seen so far in the "ghat" sections. The amazing roads took us to worlds nature's envy place tekkadi, where we went for criuse boating for an hour. The words fall short if I try to explain the beauty of the nature we enjoyed. I have only seen such a nature in windows screen savers ... I was amazed by the way birds have managed to cuddle in the dried out trees right in the middle of the river. I felt, may be this is the "nature at it's best and nature at the nests" .. But later only I realised that god's own country glorifies the nature in every inch of it's land. None of us realised how those 60 to 70 minutes passed...When we came out of the boat, every ones eyes and faces were gratified.

With those joy filled feeling, we headed to munnar, the place which is known as "World's ENVY". Munnar deserves to be world's envy. The moment munnar region starts we get see "Tea Estates" on either sides of the road. The gazing towards it in the bright moon light will gets you an illusion of drawing of squared green boxes lined up in rows and columns. Somehow girya missed to experience those wonderful things at night. :) He was snoring like a pig in the last seat of a bus :)

Sunday morning we headed for speed boating towards "muttupetty dam" located at 10 km from munnar, Since our bad luck was good, we did not find the tickets. Without wasting much of our time we maneuvered ourselves to "KUNDALE LAKE" where we went for "peddle Boating". 11 guys, 4 boats lined up all the boats in the middle of the river and challenged for race. Since we had 'Borgal' with us we won the race :) .. It was truely awesome to be the middle of the river with your best pals and you are totally detached from the software world. All of us uttered in a loud voice "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and some crap.

We made circle out of the four boats and clicked some snaps .. I braked right by 45 degrees and headed towards home(shore).. By the time all reached shore, I already had two pineapples. All together we managed to eat around 7 pineapples :) .. We headed towards the place called "TOP
STATION" which is peak of the munnar. We were astonished to see the clouds passing by at hand stretch distance. Here we really had the fun as well as clicked enough photos in various angels. Karna started video recording and everyone introduced themselves with the favourite step of their dance. Most of them ended up with "annamma" dance step .. But those moments can be cherished till the last breath. With no mood to return we asked sun to set so that we can return back home and he calmly listened to all of us and started making his appearance to the other side of the world and we started climbing the hill .. . By the time we reached top all were sweating even though it was chill like ice outside.

We boarded on the bus after having a hot tea and headed towards cottage again. On the way we planned to sing some beautiful kannada songs ..But Borgal and Girya made sure that nobody sings the songs ... When anyone use to start singing they use to start "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" in the background in the melodies( they think :) ) voice .. But singer used to stop .. We reached cottage and had our dinner and started playing cards... and myself n Santya were invloved in spanish league match between Real madrid and Barcelona . .. My favourite Barcelona lost the match and with the sad feeling I surrendered myself for sleep..

It was Monday morning, I woke up when tea came to room :) ... We headed towards "Lokkam Falls". We reached there at around 12 in the noon .. We actually did not go there to see the water falls .. Because munnar is such a place u find amazing water fall at every 200 mts of distance ... All falls gives the impression that as if someone trying to help to the forest to take bath in the milk... it's one such unique abstraction I found in munnar. Well If I start explaining abt that pages feel short for me .. One should experience it .. Well we resisted ourselves a lot to not to get into ice-chilled water .. But all went in vain .. We got into water and enjoyed a lot there.

Time was clicking and headed to munnar back as many of us were pretty much interested to see how nature freak munnar city looks likes .. On the way back our home we took a pit stop near one more water falls to have our lunch .. This was the best lunch we had ever in any of the trips ... We had Jowar rottis with NK special chatni powder and curd ...

Guys roamed around the city for 2 hours and enjoyed the beauty of city as well as beauty of kuttis :) ... It was 7:30 when all of us headed towards "Hydel Park" for Camp-Fire. It was nicely arranged with music exclusively for the great shenga group.. We started dancing around the fire .. Borya's nagina step, suri's continuous dance, Hari's awesome break dance, karna's shoulder dance, Kanti's/girya's jump over the fire, girish's train idea ... made the night most memorable...

When all got tired .. opened our beer cans and started sipping it .. Trust me ..Nothing else can be compared to the pleasure of this ....

Next day morning started towards blore and reached with painful feeling of going to office next day :( ..

But last but not the least I feel I have seen "Little Europe in spring" at "Munnar in Winter".