Rajkumar and Yercaud

long time since anything hapend here. well i did get my Bullet fpr my Birthday:-)
I was longing to go on a bike trip .....and the time line was prety well laid in from of me. It was to be on the good Friday when we were getting three days holidays in a row. i was all gread up for the ride but hingd took such big U turn. On Wed I was woring and suddenly there was news that Dr.Rajkumar passed away due to heat attck. this man is a cinema actor and for the ppl he has the image of a god. well i knew one thing that Bangalore would be thrown into havoc. ppl in my ofc started leaving with the fear of geting stuk in any unwary incident. the next day was also declared a holiday. his death created such sik scenes all over bangalore............i was watching all this siting at my home................wat a way bid adieu to your fav actor................it was a mockery of shouwing love to a person. DISGUSTING......well in the mean time we (AK,Chandu,Raghav,Mindu and Sheik Ponni) were discussing as t o where to go for 2-3 days oon bikes. first to bak off was Chandu as he had a release to work on.......nxt cam AK for saving himself from GOOSEBUMPS......den Mindu was had an un-expected work to be finished over the weekend.......so only Raghav and myself were left out for the trip althought we were ready to go.................but 2 ppl wont be fun on a long bike trip. so it was called offf and i was damn pissed offf..:-((
out if the blue Abhi called me up and said shall we go on a trip there is a car available over the weekend,,,,,,and it was all over again. we decided to go to Yercaud..............240Km drive from Bangalore . It is very near to Salem in Tamil Nadu. So on Good Friday we (Abhi, Jogle and his wife Vanita) started from my house at 6:30AM. took some stuff on the way and by the time we left bangalore it was 8:15AM. We first crossed Hosur which is 40Km from here. The road being a National Highway was awsome to drive on. just put ur leg on the acellerator pedal and zoooooooooooooom:-).
we had breakfast after crossing Hosur and then we headed to Salem..........we had to cross Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri to reach Salem. The road btw Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri is really bad. we had to hit brakes. when we reached Salem it was 12:30PM. from there Yercaud is 30km of ghat sectio. the ascend was good with the temp dropping each km we ascended...........when we reached the hill top our first job was to get a hotel to stay. we looked in 6 hotels before we got an accomomdation. we got a cottage and the amt for the stay was Rs1500.00 it is while we were paying this amt we realised that we did not have enough money for our trip.......we did not have cash as previous day all the ATM were closed coz of the voilence. so were in literaly in soup.....we had somr 700 in hand. the hotel guy did not take card as his machine was conged up.
so were spending like crazy.......keeping tab on every Rs10 that was spent. after having lunch and freshing up in the room we went to this place Pagoda point.............a scenic spot. we spent some time there and headed to Lake. There we did boating for abt half an hour and after that we had T in a road side shop.it was fun doing soemthing very local.....well wid less money though. then we took a long walk on the hills in the dark......it was getting colder as time was passing by. the we decided that we will go to a place that accepts card for dinner. there was this place Hotel Grand Plaza which was glad to accept the card we were so happy. we went in and the firat thing was DRINKS...........unfortunately that being a Govt. Holiday no liquor was served..:-((
so we just hogged and then we spent some time in the lawn, this place is at a good height and it is really chilly.we were there till 9:30 and then we left to our cottage we went to the terrace and spent time till 10:30............the place is perfect if u want to be isolated and be calm.................very soothing.
then we slept and the next day got up pretty early and went for a morning walk. we got ready after that and checked out of the room and headed to have breakfast. we went to a hotel run by Tamil Nadu Tourism.............but the scenec there did not encourage to have ay food..........there was a family shouting at the staff for food poisoning. we went to another place after that we had plans to go to water falls.................but there was no water sp we to Gents Seat and Ladies Seat................it was just a scenic place..............i did not know wat gender had to do with the place..........at around 12 noon we left bak to bangalore.........on the way in Salem we got a ICICI atm and withdrew money......boy we finally had money it was a huge relief..........on the way we stopped at a Reliance Petrol Bunk for food. we reached bangalore at 5:00PM but the traffic got me home at 6:00PM