When in Kerala.... watch out for one thing.... God's own country has all the beauty and picturesque scenes to offer any tourist... but it also has one minor problem... bandhs...
bandhs are a common phenomenon...and when will one be called upon no one can predict... this particularly puts travellers to the state in a bit of a fix... especially when u have other places to go to... trains or flights to catch to a different location and so on and so forth...
this is stemmed from a trip to kerala my family and I had taken up sometime back... we were on our way to Guruvayoor... we had just reached Ernakulam and had been to Chotanikara... that is when we learnt that the next day it was a bandh... problem was that we had to get to Guruvayoor that night itself...else our return would be jeapordised...
getting out of Chotanikara itself became a task..due to the following day bandh, bus services to Ernakulam were already halted... finally bargained and hoped into a rick to the city.... there another trouble awaited us.... buses to Guruvayoor...
we ended up travelling all night long on a bus to Thrissur and thereon on a bus to Guruvayoor... the entire journey was done standing due to the huge crowd... finally on landing in Guruvayoor we had to search for a place to stay also... because of the bandh all hotels were full....
luckily we were able to find decent lodging and managed to find few hotels in operation...
it was one travel that will not be easily forgotten... and the bandhs will never keep us away from Kerala either....
Amazing trip..the experience was too good! u got a seat in that bus to Guruvayoor.. marannu poyo? :P.. searching for lodging was the best (funniest) part! (tortoise kosu vathiya suthi vititae:P)
ReplyDelete