Kerala - God's Own Country (Period: 24th - 28th Oct 2001)
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The Show Of Strength

Boating at Matupetty lake

 
Day 2 : 26th Oct (contd.)

Matupetty lake is quite big. Boating is allowed. The boating rate is reasonable. Rupees sixty or so for an hour.

We had taken two boats. One was a row boat and the other was a paddle boat. Anto, Writo, Gautam, Shre and I were in this boat. Suman and Nitin took the paddle boat. The boating was fun! But not for those who were rowing :-)! Shre and I wanted to row and the others were very cool about it. Little did we know what was to come!

The row boat was heavily loaded and it didn't show any sign of motion. Add to that, the inability to synchronize rowing properly made my and Shre's life difficult. And then we had so many funda sessions from our idle heavy-weight nature lovers, that many times we two got confused! Motus, kabhi rowing kar... phir bol!!! 

Near Matupetty lake
 
Shre at his best! Anyway, Shre and I did manage to row for one full hour. I guess my muscles were beginning to look like that of Rambo.

The paddlers also enjoyed. However the morale of the story is : Small Family Happy Family!

Macho guys on the rowing boat
 
Anto - The Kaptaan of the crew The next destination was Rajamala hills. This is on the "other side of" Munnar town. So we had to come back to the town and take a different route.

There were many other places to visit but since time was a constraint, we decided against them.

One of the many streams in Munnar
 
We stopped at only one place while coming back. We saw a wild stream and a waterfall from our jeep. We stopped and climbed down from the road about fifty feet. There we saw, hidden in the lush greenery, a small but wild waterfall.
 
 
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