Journey to the "chocola-tea" ooty *

After planning over more than 6 month, our group, a collection of unique samples called NAMUNAS(idiots) from all around the UP agreed to go see the ooty. We put all the responsibility on the shoulders of one south Indian macha, the only sensible guy in our group. I being no less smart than macha helped him plan for our journey.

We left the office just after the lunch, the only cause we went to office that day. At 3'o clock we boarded the bus to erode, the native place of macha. Most of the people in our group don't know how to entertain themselves in English so we let macha get bored throughout the journey. Around 9'o clock we were taking delicious south Indian homemade food & sweet in macha's home like we will never taste them again & i am sure we won't.

We were being driven towards ooty in the early hours of hot & humid morning of TN. this time we allowed macha to play tamil songs as well. We halted at few places to empty our bladder, imparting fertility to TN soil. I was the first to remove the shirt as it was all wet, others followed. We visited park in coonoor district and then drove off for ooty. In the Afternoon we were asking for lodges and hotels. Soon we got one which suited our needs and limitations both. Toilet was not up to our expectation, but we didn't care.

That day we went for boating in some lake. After playing few games over there we left for rose garden. Nature was conspiring to force we people live single till marriage ie why all roses were gone when we visited rose garden. That night we dined at one costly restaurant, costly because you can easily get better quality food at some OK restaurant in Bangalore.

If a place becomes tourist spot, local public finds thousands of way for their livelihood. They start selling local food, clothes, vegetables, fruits. Not all the places we visited there had nothing to be called special. We bought some homemade chocolates for our loved one's while roaming in the streets of ooty in that chilled night. We almost went astray from our hotel. That night we played cards till dawn.

Second day started with visiting the peak of TN, that's what i was told by macha, followed by visiting a tea factory. Actually we have a tea freak among us & he wanted to acknowledge tea business growing by leaps and bounds because of his contribution. We visited a hell lot of places meaningless to mention in the blog of a genius.

We did carting, bumpy cars, air hockey, 3d rotation & whatever that came on our way. On the return journey few jerks among us complained about vomiting, loose motion and unfortunately macha could not escape from this.

Tamilian may not be knowing hindi but they carry the hindu culture more than any hindi speaking family. Macha's family left zero stone unturned to welcome us. I hardly care about the food and facilities but i do care about the one's involvement and love. And i must say i wasn't disappointed.

In the end i got a lesson, never to be haste in booking the tickets as I booked the tickets for the train departing 1 day before. Lazy Indians want all pieces of cake without moving their ass and never let go any chance of blaming the leaders.

As a whole, journey was fantastic because something is always better than nothing. I hope i was not much illustrative this time to make you skip reading this post.

* Blog Title indicates that OOTY is known for chocolates & tea.