Letting off the Steam

@ Botos

So I was on a break with a friend cum colleague in office and were discussing a hang out for weekend. I thought that no one from my room would be willing to join but to my surprise everyone jumped in. We planned to visit Kanyakumari at first, from that point itself there was a single kanya joining us (from office) and we didn’t had proper way back from there so we had to drop both kanya and kanyakumari. It became a complete boys trip now, all of started searching for the next best place in south and soon we came up with Yelagiri-a small hill station in TN. 

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Biyani booked a cab and we were ready to hit the roads, addition to 5 of us from Chennai we called a friend photographer friend-CV from Bangalore too. Here I would like to make a note of thanks to all my photographer friends for providing there awesome photography on the trips that we execute. We started banging our qualis on full volume with breaks from time to time for Atm and the very famous Kumbakonam Coffee. Then there were drinks when we were waiting for CV at some mid station (forgot the name).

Temple Pic

Finally we reached Yelagiri, had a full tight dinner and started exploring beautiful natural scenery. Our first point was the Botos Natural Park, it was not much but enough for some crazy shit. I have tried not to post any uncensored pics, this one is fine to remind everthing. Next we visited Murugan Temple, it had quite a sight. Its true that there is a peace where there is God, this temple was a true example of it, it was cool, quite and calm, best place to meditate and think.

Swami Malai trek

Once prayer was over, we started our hike to the highest peak-Swami Malai. Note it takes 2-3 hours in ascending, which we were not able to do as we started late, the temple at peak was already closed. We thought of just taking a tour and coming back, but as the Sun was coming down it was getting darker and its  not advisable in woods to roam around especially at a new place. So we trekked up to a point, enjoyed our way up, clicked some pics and started coming down.

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On the way back, we entered a garden with musical fountain. It could have been quite a show but due to weather conditions/separate tickets ffor garden and fountain, we dropped the plan of fountain. Again clicked and started our way home with a single stop for dinner.

Thats Me

If we are working in a dead end job in a small cubicle, such trips helps us to let off our steam, to rejuvenate us, to give us a new angle to our life, work and thinking. There is a saying, “don’t tell me how many degrees you have, tell me how much have you travelled.” Reading books can give you bookish knowledge applying it in the field makes you practical as well as compassionate.