Sunday, August 10, 2008

Team Trip to Wayanad

This year team trip, we went to wayanad. First time I am visiting the place. It was a hilly region. We started on Thursday night from here in Mangalore mail and reached Calicut in the morning. We have booked a van from Calicut for the complete trip.

We had the BF in Calicut and traveled to Kalpeta. On the way we went to the Pooket lake. We had boating. It was a different experience for us. We booked two types of boats. One is Row boat with a Rower and the other is Canoe/Kayak. It is the boat sailes use in the rough water.I had the experience for the first time. Sivarani joined me and we were not able to use it properly. Some how we sailed for 30 min. Last Five minutes it started raining. Eight of us enjoyed the Canoe ride. We had fish there and went to Kalpetta Hotel PPS Tourist Home. It was very normal hotel.

We refresh ourself and had lunch there itself. The lunch took longer time and so we changed our plan. We initially planned to visit the Meenmutti falls but the hotel receptionist advised not to take risk as it was very steep and we have to treck three km. to reach the falls. We decided to go to the Soochipara Falls. It was one hr. travel to reach the falls. We went down the falls. It was very slippery. Only Five/Six of us took bath. There was a heavy flood in the falls as it was raining in previous couple of days. We were not able to go near the falls. Muthu, Siva and Nirmal had enjoyed it. We went into the water but we didn't take any risk there.

Day -2

* 8:00am- Went to Falls

* 1-2 pm - Lunch on the way to Idakkal Caves
* 3-4 pm- Visit Idakkal Caves

* 6:30pm-Drive Back to Kalpetta
* 9 pm - CampFire
* Overnight in Kalpetta


Day -3

* 7-1pm -
Chembara Peak for a trek (breakfast on the way)

* 1-2pm - Finish lunch and check out from Hotel
* 5pm-Drive Back to calicut

* 8pm - Board train(Chennai Exp) and reach Chennai at 8am on Monday