Wayanad

Its a perfect weekend getaway from bangalore..just 250kms away...can drive well within 6hrs..wayanad is a district in northern kerala..all the sight seeing places are around 30kms from the city..there are around 6-7 tourist spots..but we could cover just 5..

The bus arrived 1hr late due to the diesel strike and we finally left bangalore at 9pm in a so called 'executive rajahamsa' bus which took its own time, stopped anywhere and everywhere..and we 4 girsls couldnt ask for better seats than the last row for our so called 1day old planned trip...At 3am we reached our resort and surprisingly it was great...We took a short nap and started our day tour..Our first destination was Kuruwa island,a wonderful place where we spent a good 4hour trek..we had an extremely annoying and funny 'honeymoon couple' accompanying us...had yummy pucca malayali lunch and went to Banasura dam where we took a motor boat ride and captured great pictures..came back tired,sat by the poolside,played some silly games and soon fell asleep...

Got ready early morning, hogged on free buffet breakfast and left to Suchipara waterfalls...may be not the season and the falls looked like a culmination of water falling from 5-6 taps..but we enjoyed the journey to falls via harrison tea estate..Next was Edkkal caves which has rocks and some inscriptions on some rocks..a bit of trek to be done to reach there..since there was no guide anywhere,we had to assume our own history of the carvings..Then had a decent meal and left to huge 700sq ft Muthanga wildlife sanctury...it was a great dissappoint considering the amount we paid for the jeep ride inside...we couldnt see a single animal apart from a few deers...But you cant expect wild animals to come out and say hi to us in their natural habitat...then back to our rooms and packed our bags...The trip came to an end so soon...We did miss 2 more tourist destinations a lake and another falls..Nevermind..My dad always says that if you dont leave some places you will never have interest to visit the same place again...