Beach Beach Beach Part 2

Snehpreetam Beach

In morning, I got a wakeup call from a friend, since she thought I would be the first to wake and awake others. I got up fast and ran towards washroom, took shower and got ready to rock. Few of us were ready so we went to temple of Lord Krishna; it was a very big temple with long queue. Soon we got to know that only gents wearing Lungi and ladies wearing salwar suit/sarees are allowed inside. So we dropped the idea of going inside. Some person told us that we can go from the other side and worship from outside only. We tried that, but idol was not at all visible.

Cherai Beach

One more interesting thing about that Temple, we saw a newly married couple, in which bride was full of Gold jewelry. She was looking like a shop. After all this we went to hotel and got ready for Beach. Now I am gonna tell you why I named this post as “Beach Beach Beach”. We all first decided to visit Chavakkad Beach and we booked our hotel near that beach only. We reached Chavakkad Beach, but no one liked that beach, so we turned our vehicle towards another beach named SnehPreetam, but again no one agreed on that. After all this, we visited the best beach Cherrai Beach. It was the third beach, hence the name… “Beach Beach Beach“. I must say, it was the most awesome beach, we visited. All entered into beach and remained there for almost 2 hours. It was my first time in an ocean, so I felt like it’s too salty. Every time water enters my mouth, it felt salty… too salty. We played football and sand fight, must say njoyed a lot. Some friends also learnt swimming. One friend lost his goggle on beach, and others thought that they will do underwater and find that goggle. Of course we were not able to get that back. After this, we took bath in normal water. Now we took some sunset pics and then marched towards Coimbatore.

Sunset at Cherai Beach

En the route, we thought to have dinner, hence we stopped at a big restaurant. We checked menu, it was complete Non-Veg, few items were veg, but not available. Then too we ordered something veg, I had some, then I thought it is not enough for dinner, so I stepped out and had an icecream(it has lot of calories hence it was best fast food available there) and Mazaa (best healthy drink).  Finally we reached Coimbatore. This was the last trip of Training of Coimbatore, but I think it was not the least, there may be much more awaiting for us at our base locations.

Note:

All my dear readers, this is the last post of 2012. In New Year, I’ll write blog in a totally new address, new interface, and new flavor. I hope I’ll get the same responses from you.

Thank You

Beach Beach Beach

Last trip of training was a blast. All planning was cancelled, we had nothing in our mind till Friday night and suddenly on Saturday morning, we decided to visit Chavakkad Beach. We left our hostel at 4pm. Picked girls from their hostel, now we had 4 couples with us and rest singles, in all 14 were there. We reached Kerala late and booked a hotel (a luxurious one) after exploring 5. Now we were heading towards a restaurant, en the route some stranger might have touched one girl of our group, she reached restaurant and created a big scene there. She blamed her partner for all the mess, he apologized for the mistake and even did sit ups. But girl was not ready to accept any apology, now boy turned red and went out without dinner. Four went after him, First I thought I should also wait for the air to settle, but then I got the picture, that all this is just a drama and I should better be concentrating on matar paneer. I had dinner, and then I tried to cool down the girl and gave her a frank advice “you should have your diner; boy must have had dinner outside”. But she won’t understand, well whole dinner was spoiled because of this couple, finally boy returned and we all headed back to our hostel.

After all this, we all decided to visit Beach after midnight, but hotel owner stopped us and gave clear instructions that police will catch us and its not safe to roam in that area and that too with girls is not at all safe. So we started watching movie. After some time one friend came in our room and asked is anyone coming for night walk at 1pm. I whispered “They are going Beach” in one friend ear, she said “No they are not”. I said Let us see. HIT, I also joined night walk, soon after getting out we planned to visit beach, I opened mobile navigator and got the route. We were following map, but there was a turn in the map at a point, so we thought we should ask the security guard standing in a shop.

Well at first look, he didn’t seem like a real sec guard, he was more like a zombie. He was actually walking in sleep. It was the only second; he woke up when I confirmed the route to beach. The route he told us was actually after passing Police Station, in order to avoid the problems we had to change our route and follow the route as given in navigator. Storm came….after walking a certain distance, a Police van came towards us, we stopped, and they stopped, and started questioning us. We told them innocently that, we are tourists and we didn’t know that it is not at all safe roaming there at 3am. First they were slightly strict and then they become soft, they showed us beach and after that dropped us at a safe point. They also asked us if we would like to have a rickshaw. We also took few pictures with them.

We reached our hotel and had a little chit-chat, while in that chat; one friend sat on a glass table and broke it. Then we finally went to sleep, so as to avoid any more damage. Ab aap bhi sojaaao, iske aage ka kal subah padhna….Gud Night 

Going Ahead

Travel Alone Day3

Haridwar>Rishikesh>>>

Real Travel

Yes my real travelling starts from today only, I woke up early in morning and done ganga snan at har ki paudi. I also performed some Pooja with the help of a pandit. Although I do not believe in those poojas but I had to put my mobile, wallet and clothes, so to keep them safe I asked pandit to perform pooja and till I am having bath, take care of my belongings. As you already know all these pundits just need money in the name of God, so I offered a total sum of Rs 30 to them, Rs20 to my real pandit and Rs10 to new pandit, whom my real pandit called. As soon as I told new pandit Ill give u only Rs10, he said pooja is complete. Business minded Pandits.

After this I returned to my hotel room, took my bag with me and headed towards Railway Station at Haridwar

Haridwar Railway Station

 to move towards 2^nd spot i.e. Rishikesh. I took the ticket for it, but train was after 1:30 hrs, so I thought to have lunch in the mean time and save some time. As I was having my lunch one fellow came their and sat in front of me, he looked towards me and soon we started a conversation, when he got to know that I am travelling alone he asked me “ghar se jhagda karke aaye ho kya?” I said no, its just I wanted to explore myself, he reconfirmed me. Then he told me about himself being a military guy living near Haridwar only, because he was also alone, so I naturally asked “aap bhi akele?”, so he told me ya I am here only for ganga snan and live near haridwar only . Now he asked me “ghum liya Hridwar?” I said yes “Haridwar me ek ganga snan hi to karne layak hai”, he said “no go to Mansa Devi temple and Chandi Devi, there are ropeways on both the temples, you will enjoy there and feel like kahi ghum kar aaye”. I said “dono jagah jaau?”, he said no go only to Chandi Devi, its more cool, so I changed my plans and went to Chandi Devi temple and came to Haridwar Railway Station, headed towards Rishikesh.

In Rishikesh I visited lakshaman or Ram jhula, I don’t remember exactly whichever was the 1^st one. Since the 2^nd was 2kms away and to be covered on foot, and completely same as 1^st one. I dropped idea of goin there.

Rishikesh(this murti is partially under water)

In Rishikesh only there’s a beach like place after crossing 1^st jhula, I went there and spent some time in water, enjoyed the atmosphere. Visited nearby places, took some pictures. Now I got into a bus and headed for Dehradooon. Dehradoon was so much fun, that’s why Ill write about it in next blog.

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