Back From Vacation
I’m back in town.
Munnar was alright. The weather was a welcome change from the blistering heat of Chennai and it was comfortable falling asleep under the thick blankets and waking up late. The tourist traps were noisy and dirty and I could convince my parents to skip them only when they found out that the wait for an hour and a half for boating. It was also annoying to wait for my mother and sister who dived into every shop to look at earrings and other junk.
Rachel found it necessary for some reason to tell me that the results had arrived and what percentage she had scored just as I was leaving for Munnar. And so I had to worry about the results too, not knowing that mine hadn’t even been announced. Thanks a lot, Rachel.
The Tea Museum was the most interesting place of all. They had set up an entire factory just to demonstrate the tea manufacturing process to tourists. This was nice since most tea factories don’t allow visitors. We were also shown a 30 minute film about the history of Munnar which was a great touch.
I was quite bored with the landscape and the hotel and stayed indoors for quite a bit watching TV. I liked the travelling by taxi cab and train more than the place itself.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Welcome back to HOT Chennai !! Hope you would have got OC tea there at the Tea museum
Then, what’s so touching about the history of 666(munnar)??
May 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Nice dude….. Nice to get back with you again here… I hope that you had nice time there… We too are planning to go Kodai. Hmmm lets see!!!!
May 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Dude. Where are the photos?
May 28th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
hey, they didn’t tell us about the tea factory when we went there! all we got was a stupid nature trek. where did you guys stay?
May 28th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Ah photos. Soon.
Suren, the entrance costs Rs. 75 and I guess the cheap ass tour management guys didn’t want that eating into their margins. We stayed at a place called Devikulam 7 kilometres from the town and went around in a hired taxi for Rs. 1300 per day.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Marc, i don’t know that only we got the results and not all the ppl. I knew only at 10 o’clock that results were only for us
In my case, since i was attending a session in the camp and place where i headed was a hill so couldn’t view my result, great right. Then Vinod messaged me my result.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I was in ground playing happily when all of a sudden her call came and I was surprised to know that the results came. But we continued to play. But one of my friend saw the results and called me. Damn him! He ruined the day. Some didn’t get the results because of arrear and which was a new thing this year. So they were a bit sad and that day was spoiled.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Oh no, i frightened so many people by calling them and telling hey man, results came. What’s my result? saying since am in camp i couldn’t view, haha Rachel great di