We a team of 26 started off our journey to Mysore on October 27th in Mysore Mail from Central Railway station. The train started by 8 PM and our fun also started. We reached Mysore on next morning 8 AM.From there we have already arranged a Mini Bus for our travel to COORG. On the way we stopped at a tea shop and had fresh tender coconut's [:D]. From there on we had some interesting games in the bus. Shyam started a tricky game which is to know the intimate stuffs from all they guys and gals. It is a game where people will question about anything right from childhood to college days and further and one has to be true in thier answers. Luckily I got too few questions and escaped [:D]. We reached Coorg by 12:45Pm and had our stay booked at hotel RajDharshan.
Abbi Falls :
After refreshing for a while we started to Abbi Falls. Bus can go only upto a certain limit and hence we had to walk for 3 km to reach Abbi Falls. Some of our guys enjoyed the shower of Abbi Falls. Unfortunately I was not prepared for a bath [:0]
Shiva Temple:
On our way back to lodge we went to a shiva temple. It was a nice ,peaceful and serene place. Then we went for shopping, to buy the Coorg coffee.
Camp Fire :
Camp fire was organised for that evening in the lodge we stayed. Kiruthiga and Akilla came up with entertaining games. One of the game was everyone has to perform an action mentioned in the lot we take. On my turn I had to enact a dialogue from the movie Veerapandiya Kattabomman (casted by Shivaji Ganesan) in my mother tongue, Sourashtra. Again I was made to enact the same in tamil. One another game is acting in a situation given by the game organisers. Me and Prakash(Project Lead) enacted a scene between a manager and his associate. Most of us were wearing jerkins and some had the jerkins inside the body with some hot drinks.
October 28:
We all woke up very early and vacated our rooms by 6 AM.
Thalai Cauvery:
On our way to Thalai Cauvery, we had hot idly's and chaya at a small hotel near Triveni Sangam. It was a nice feeling to see the birth place of river Cauvery.
From Thalai Cauvery we proceeded towards an island like place called Nisagardhama.
Nisagardhama :
During our travel in bus we had some interesting games like Paatuku Paatu, Vaarthai Vilayaattu. We had our lunch at Nisagardhama. I think we are only people to have lunch at Nisagardhama. We had no other option [:(]. It was a nice place formed between two rivers(small island like place). We played cricket, volley ball and had elephant ride at Nisagardhama.
Golden Temple :
It is a Buddhist temple rich in its architecture. People like me had never been to a buddhist temple. It is a temple with the hostel for the young monks. I was surprised to see monks owning Hero honda Karizma. From small kids to aged monks share the same place. One feature that impressed me much is the cleanliness inside the temple and the big statue of Lord Buddha. The wall paintings, dragon sculptures was great.
Back to Chennai :
Our journey towards chennai started from there on. We reached Mysore railway station around 7:40 PM. We boarded our train and started towards Chennai. Next day morning we reached chennai and then on started our usual work. (Office --> home --> office).
As far I am concerned, the real hero of the entire tour was Rathesh, our PL Viji's son. I like the way he used to call me, Aravind-hu. Cute, charming and bubly, he impressed almost everyone in the team.
