The Ooty Trip

Wayanad – Bandipur highway is absolutely amazing!!!!

Especially the stretch between Muthanga to Gundlupete. Wide straight highway with forest on both sides. Riding in the shadow of numerous long trees.

I have developed a craze for bike riding. And surely it was fueled by that ride to ooty with my high school friends. Wow!! What an experience was it !  And the sad part was I didnt know how to ride a bike.Poor Danish ! He had to ride 16 hours without breaks !! Literally a whole day ……

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The Neglected Mountain Backyard

Ponkunnu mala is a small mountain lying roughly 1.5 -2  km from my home. Me & Chicku together climbed the highest point. The view from there was worth the hardwork.Continuous stream of fresh cool breeze blew across my body giving me an undescribable joy in my mind. Below, the calicut city kept openend before us in a blurred view. The sea was visible but it smudged with the sky whose boundary was not well distinguishable. This mountain is home for numerous rare species of birds, spiders and vegetations.

The path to the destination was not easy for us. Chicku kept on telling to quit the journey every half kilometers. He was tired. He was not like that few years ago.
It was really hard to cope up with his stamina during our childhood playtimes. This mountain is rich with Iron ore. Many Iron excavating companies tried to set up plant here, which were defeated by the strong opposition from the villagers. This is indeed a beautiful spot and we wont leave it to any corporates. After all India is just selling their natural resources to foreign countries & using finished goods from them made by this resources. The future of India lies in service sector and not in manufacturing. India missed that bus long ago.