Gist:
Number of Days : 3
Number of People : 19 [ from Bangalore = 12 + from chennai = 7 ]
Purpose: Old College classmates get together as all of us are working in IT companies.
You may call it as Chumma 
Places visited : Kottayam – Cochin – Kumarakom – Vaikom Mahadeva Temple – Cheragundu falls
Details:
It was a usual evening at my company where tasks kept coming, no matter you work fast or work slow. I started at an unusual time of around 5:30 PM from office. I thought of informing my boss that I was about to leave early from office for the tour but he was not in his seat. And my company never insisted on informing on leaving at an unusual time except for something very critical. I reached home at 5:45 PM and already three guys were waiting for the rest to arrive. As usual one guy came late and that made me to reach 6:45 PM to the railway station for a train which is supposed to arrive at 6:40 for just 5 minutes at the Byappanahalli railway station and 3 other guys were already waiting for us there. However, as luck would have it, the train arrived at only 8:15 PM. The Dharmapuri express left at 8:30 PM and reached Dhamapuri at 11:00 PM. As Dharmapuri is the hometown of one of my friend Arun Kumar, his dad and his younger brother came to railway station and provided us with dinner. (Wow!! It was great). Some batch of the guys came by bus to Dharmapuri station where we boarded in an unreserved compartment in Salem train at 12 midnight and went standing in rush (too jammed with few drunkards also, who provided us fun part in the mess) to reach Salem at 1:30 AM. We had booked train tickets from Salem to Kottayam one month back which left us to sleep in the train FILL which came at 2:45 AM only. I completely slept on the way to Kottayam and reached there at 11 in the morning.
FIRST DAY:
We boarded the Mali Hotel just opposite to the railway station by walk. The batch of guys who came from Chennai already had boarded in that hotel and had gone to **FILL** in a cab arranged from the hotel itself. We had quickly took bath and got ready for going in a cab to the same place. We went to Arya Bhavan Restaurant at Kottayam for our dinner where we had good tamil meals. Then we changed our plan and went to Cochin instead of the earlier planned **FILL** as the driver suggested that it very worthy to go **FILL**. Hence we started to Cochin at 2:15 PM and reached there at 4 PM.
The driver took us directly to the Shipyard at Cochin. We paid **FILL** for a package (for 2 hours) trip around Cochin in Boat only for us ( 12 guys ). We saw China Fishing, saw Boat Jetty, Huge ships and Dolphins. Apart from seeing these things from the Boat itself, we went to some Island which had some entry fee (but provided with a Chocobar). It was not very worthwhile, but was not bad either. It was almost dusk and time was around 6 PM.
We took our cab back and went to Cherai Beach which is little away from our way back to Kottayam. We spent some 2 hours at the beach. Some guys took bath at beach water and some just was enjoying their time at beach. Then we changed clothes and left the beach around 8 PM. At 8:30 PM, we had our dinner at Anugraha hotel on the way (they took a lot of time to serve). We reached Kottayam at 11:30 PM. We met the rest of the guys who had come from Chennai and had went to **FILL** for the day. We talked (Maanga) with them and went to sleep at around 1 AM.
SECOND DAY:
Coming Soon !!!
