Saturday, July 25, 2009

Journey To An Unknown Land

And yes ...here i am...looking at the 17 inch LCD monitor of my damn PC hoping to find something to blog on...

As you guys ( hope some one's reading this now ) know this is my second post (also my second experiment ) Yesterday I started of with one of my personal experience...I'm gonna do that again ....yeah...some of my personal stuff....( which is gonna be no longer personal )...


I think today I would give the readers of this blog some more knowledge about me...(( the so called 'AUTHOR' of this blog ))

I'm gonna go back a couple of years from now....precisely speaking....August 2007 yeah that's the time...I was in 11 Th grade then ...studies was important to me at that point of time...My Dad had been transferred to Delhi earlier that year from Thiruvananthapuram... due to political reasons best known to the members of Secretariat Govt: Of Kerala ( My Dad was a strong supporter of INC, which the ruling party members of CPM did not like.) Thus at such a crucial stage of my life..me and my Mom had to live here alone..with my Dad some hundreds of miles from TVM ....We have no relatives here...Most of them are scattered around Cochin , Thrissur & Bangalore ...
so we were left here alone to take care of ourselves....


But somehow this bane turned out to be a boon for me...I became more responsible ( yeah i think so! : )
we usually have a 10 day holiday during Aug- Sep time due to the festival of ONAM a festival of all malayales..its a specialty of Kerala... Well I didn't celebrate it in Kerala ....as my Dad was at Delhi then...we ( my Mom and myself ) decide to go to Delhi...that was it..the star of it all....My Dad had more surprises in store for us..he sent to us two air tickets....yes..a jackpot.....its not a usual thing for an average boy from a Indian Middle class family to get Air tickets ....added to it ...this was my first journey to a place outside Kerala with my Parents...

I was the happiest Boy in the world then...we did lots of preparations..our flight was around 12.00...i had tough time dealing with the heavy bag i was carrying with me in the air port...but any ways...I was just thrilled Coz it was my First journey through air...We had specially requested the lady at the counter to get us Window seats so that we could actually enjoy our journey...We were going by a JET LITE Flight and as requested ...we got Window seats....The views were panoramic ,,,beautiful just a perfect start to a nice and wonderful tour ....

We had a quite tasty lunch at about 1.00 served by the air hostess...( man.. she was hot!! ) ..We reached New Delhi around 3.15 pm late by about 15 mins: ( The delay was attributed to heavy Air traffic at Delhi Air Port ) Delay was not at all a problem for me...coz I Had a wonderful company of a foreigner who was also coming to Delhi for Sight seeing....

Thus we reached Delhi...Later that day we went to my Dad's office...met all his frns...including his boss ( who happened to be a kinda sardarji ) ...learned some Punjabi from the quarters watch man ( dats me...!!)
We got a Fantastic Room In Kerala House New Delhi ...with AC and a cool LCD TV ( Man... it was damn hot out there even during night!!) We had a lot of plans for the next day...

I woke up early next day..went on to switch TV on and went through all those channels that you don't get in Kerala...( At that point of time a Dhobi came and asked whether we had any clothes for washing... !! guess wat my dad was his fav customer!! )

My Dad had already booked three seats for us in PANICKER TRAVELS ..a travel agency....and we visited in and around Delhi ...that was the first time i traveled in a Grand Volvo bus..with about 4 LCD screens inside it ...wonderful Air conditioning ....the most important thing that i noticed about Delhi was that the roads were just perfectly gutter less ( at least on d roads i travelled!! )

Our first stop of the day was at Qutab Minar it was majestic building....in a charming area...beautiful views from everywhere...and as it was early morning .. it wasn't as hot...so climate was also ideal....

( As I'm recollecting all these after two years gap, finding it hard to remember which place i went next!! )

if my memory is correct we went to a museum next...everything about Nehru family was described in there..that's the place where our Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi died....though it was silent in there
i was fascinated by its sheer grandeur and architectural magnificence..

later on we went to parliament house...( couldn't enter inside!! ) and Rashtrapathi Bhavan ....

We had a nice lunch at a Fantastic (all restaurants there are built in an Anglo-Persian style which is quite breath taking!!! u should see to believe!!) restaurant there....I did expect some Northern Dishes there...but what to do..got only the usual southern variants :)

after all it was PANICKER TRAVELS wasn't it!! can't expect more than that...!!

Later that day we all went to the famous INDIA GATE...
huge structure...with the AMAR JYOTHI Flame..it looks a perfect tribute to the martyrs...

and yea we did go to many of the samadhi places out there.... that was the only boring part of an otherwise joyous trip...

Next day we went to lotus temple...we reached there by after noon......that was the first time that i had to encounter with the heat of Delhi.....Really damn ..man!!...i was totally blinded by the heat...mind you it was August not May -June ( The Summer season in DELHI ) once i entered into the the giant huge vast building I began to experience an overwhelming pleasant feeling...complete silence is mandatory there....it was perfect for a meditation..( I actually tried to meditate there, but ended up with a wonderful sleep!! )

Later we visited all less known places of Delhi including many of the Mandirs..after reaching our hotel ...we usually went out to city with my Dad and his Friends....that was the first time in my life when i bought so many things that the final bill came out be some Rs:8000/- ( mind u it was one of the many that was about to come!! )


After going to all the famous places...Dad decided that we have to go out of Delhi and visit some places...
as a result we went to Agra, Hrishikesh....saw the magnificence of Ram Jhoola...and Laxman Jhoola..

All that I would deal in my later blogs....

This only the starting of a great hurricane that's about to come!!
So keep watching this space!!

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