Pihu's first Vacation - part 2

Oct 2nd:

Got up early and got ready but by the time we started for sight seeing it was already 9:15 am courtesy Shash always a drama king and late latif.

On the way to munnar town we stopped by at this ammavaru temple. Being navratri they had the bommala koluvu inside temple.

Then as we came out first thing everyone wanted was food, so we went to silver tips for buffet breakfast. It was awesome food infact the best breakfast of our entire trip, shash and chuku did the justice to the cost. 

After a nice breakfast we started for sight seeing. We covered the following places

Tea museum: pihu was asleep for almost 50% of our time in tea museum so we were able to concentrate on the short movie and the demo. We purchased some tea from the museum.

The next stop was Mattupetty dam. There was heavy jam near the dam, we enjoyed the mur-mura chat, ground nut chat, tota pari mango, pineapple. All were too good. Street food is always mouth watering.

From there we went to elephant arrival point, we could only see a baby elephant.
Then upon return back to the town we stopped by near the boating point but due to heavy rush the entry was closed so we directly went to elephant ride.

At elephant ride point it was an hour long wait and pihu was almost sleepy all 4 of us (me, shash, chuku, chinnu) tried to keep her engaged with all sort of tactics. She even fed those elephants pineapples while waiting for our turn, Then finally our turn came and we went to the ride. Pihu enjoyed to the fullest. Me and chinnu were enjoying but almost with our heart in mouth :) Finally the ride was over and we again fed those elephant with pineapples but this time from top of the elephant.

Then we started back to the town we all were hungry and pihu was sleeping so thought to give a try to the street food on the munnar town street. We all had kerala paratha. Actually me and chuku just had like snacks but shash and chinnu had it like dinner.

After the dinner cum snack time we went on for some shopping, took 2 Kerala sarees, 2 dress materials, 1 baby frock, few junk jewelries and some goodies. Pihu woke up and was hungry so we went for dinner at silver tips. Infact only me, pihu and chuku had dinner & then back to room and off to bed.

Oct 3rd: HAPPYYYYYYYYYY DUSHERRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

I wanted to get up early today so that I can talk to family members on phone and convey festival wishes but as the thumb rule of parenting goes, when you need your kids to cooporate the most its only then they trouble you the most; today pihu troubled a lot. Then finally all got up around 7:00 am and got ready. We then checked out of that resort.

Finally we were out of that place, before starting back to kochi everyone wanted to have breakfast at silver tips so that no need to stop in middle. So we went back to Silver tips but being long weekend there was heavy traffic jam(almost 3km) till munnar so we took a detour a bit lengthy route and finally reached silver tips. It was almost the closing time but the staff let us in.

They even served us almost every item and that too hot hot. Yummyyyyyyyyyyy.........!!!!!!! & the time to say GOOD BYE MUNNAR. 

On the way back we tried to take some snaps in the tea gardens but ladies working there dint let us in. One lady was courteous enough to let us in and we took few snaps and managed to wind up in 10 min. Then we took a small detour to Attukal waterfalls, it was just 2 km detour so worth to spend some addition 30 min. Only thing scary was the road to the waterfall, it is a single lane ghat road and same road is used for entry and exit. So if an opposite vehicle comes then we are blocked unless some one dares to move back of get down the tar road.

We then stopped by at the tea gardens were we got ample time to take the pics. It was a nice place and nice view. Then we started back to kochi.

We reached Kochi around 5:00 pm. Everyone was hungry. I cooked nice food for all and by the time we completed our supper it was around 6:30 pm. After taking some rest we just went for a drive + shopping.

But in kochi almost the roads get deserted by 9:00 pm and shops get closed by 8:00 only so it was altogether a no shopping no sight seeing day...only travel. Finally we came back home and off to bed.

Rest continued in next part....

Pihu's first Vacation - part 3