Day 4 Experience(20-12-2023) at Munnar and from Munnar To Thekkady by Manas

 My experience on Day 4(20-12-2023) at Munnar and from Munnar To Thekkady

On 20-12-2023 we got up in the morning at 7:15 a.m. and freshened up and brushed our teeth and Me, Drishaan, Sridhar, Karthik and Mahendra and Pranav  went for a walk outside around full view point of Munnar Happy Holidays Homestay which was from 8:15 a.m. till 9:00 a.m.  and Karthik had done booking of boating for Periyar River Lake Thekkady for 21-12-2023 which was at 9:30 a.m. and then went for a full walk seeing the nature of tea gardens viewpoint full walk around the nature greenery and Karthik told Me and Drishaan to sing a song while running slow jog walking also and then did full walk around full view point of Munnar Happy Holidays Homestay from 8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and had conversations/talks/discussions about nature of Munnar, tea gardens and other things in general of nature and also the world itself is just an appearance. The blueness of the sky is an optical illusion. It is always better not to dwell on the states of the mind or just ignore it.

After talks/discussions/conversations during walk around full Munnar Happy Holidays Homestay view point from 8:15 a.m. till 9:00 a.m. was over, we then took some tea/coffee to hydrate ourselves to get ready to leave to Thekkady from Munnar. We then left at 9:15 a.m. by TT to have some breakfast at hotel and breakfast was idli vada masala dosa plain dosa and black tea and coffee. The breakfast was from 9:45 a.m. till 10:05 a.m. and Mahendra told Karthik which hotel we would be going for breakfast and Karthik was telling Mahendra very good wait Mahendra and Karthik told Mahendra that he was having patience and then looked for a good hotel and had breakfast and then when breakfast was over at 10:05 a.m. we went to the Photo Point 10:05 am to 10:35 a.m.  saw full Tea Gardens around the Photo Point saw the full view nature beauty and had conversations/talks/discussions of nature photo point where photo shooting is done taking photos in tea garden point photo point which was from 10:35 a.m. till 11:00 a.m./11:05 a.m. and then left for Thekkady from Munnar Photo Point and before leaving Munnar Photo Point each one of us took coconut water to hydrate ourselves as we were very thirsty and to build our strength climbing down from Munnar to Thekkady and saw the full ghats road Munnar to Thekkady and in the TT we were seeing Mr. Bean comedy of Drishaan favorite character and was entertaining ourselves from 11:05 a.m. till 15:05 p.m. in the road Sridhar was having little bit drowsiness was feeling so he took some water to remove all his vomit at a road point for toilet break and then he sat in the front and became alright. On the way to Thekkady we visited Thekkady Spices Garden at 13:35 p.m. till 14:35 p.m. and Latha lady was explaining about cardamom elaichi powder is being produced and ayurveda medicines herbs products are being made and also aleopathy ayurveda treatment they give spices and bradvita for memory loss like bournvita giving us strength and energy and bournvita is not good and bradvita is good and natural medicine  ayurvedic medicine being replaced with a english medicine and lots of spices turmeric cardamom cloves pepper good for cooking rice pongal vada which is black pepper and was explaining about spices and herbs at Herbal Garden Spices Estate Thekkady and were having some talks/conversations/discussions of cartoon characters of Drishaan marvel fan he being a marvel fan so many discussions talks going on and were enjoying as a group in TT from Munnar to Thekkady and then stopped for lunch at Tusker’s Cafe at 15:05 p.m. and lunch was kerala paratha, paneer butter masala and chapati and curd rice and something and drank lime juice sweet lime to hydrate ourselves and lunch was from 15:05 p.m. till 15:30 p.m. and after lunch we went to Thekkady Elephant Camp to see the elephants at Thekkady and then Karthik bought some passion fruit jelly chocolate at Chocolate Camp we took some chocolates to eat and then Karthik asked whether would anyone of us be interested in martials arts cultural programmes at Thekkady in the evening and then Karthik and I bought tickets for martial arts cultural programmes at Thekkady Jinns Driver was very supportive taking us to Kalady, Athirapally WaterFalls, Munnar and Thekkady and was sharing about Vijaya Raghavan he is the director of Centre For Autism Disabilities and Research Education Centre he runs a NGO school at Trivandrum Kerala for Autism Children i.e. kids in the autism spectrum he shared to Tempo Traveller Driver Jinns which was from 15:30 p.m. till 16:25 p.m. We then left from Thekkady Elephant Camp at 16:30 p.m. and reached Spice Cottage Homestay at 17:00 p.m. and when we reached Spice Cottage Homestay we saw the ground floor room and terrace room where Karthik told that He and Drishaan would be staying in the room in the terrace and then were relaxing and rejuvenating ourselves from 17:15 p.m. till 18:30 p.m. and after relaxing and rejuvenating ourselves we went up the terrace and Me, Sridhar, Mahendran, Promit, Pranav and Renish and Karthik and Drishaan were talking about our travel experience and each one of us were sharing what they liked and told they liked Munnar tea gardens photo point Thekkady Elephant Camp seeing the elephants all of them were sharing their experiences of 4th day Munnar to Thekkady from 18:30 p.m. till 19:00 p.m. and left from Spice Cottage Homestay to Thekkady Kalari Center by TT from 19:00 p.m. till 19:30 p.m. and cultural programme martial arts started at 19:30 p.m. till 20:20 p.m. and Karthik was explaining about martial arts is the people do make up acting shooting like with a knife having sword using arrow to fight martial arts and enjoyed the evening cultural programme and had talks/discussions/conversations from 19:30 p.m. till 20:20 p.m. at Thekkady Kalari Center and the programme was very good and went by TT to some hotel Pizzato for night dinner from 20:20 p.m. till 21:00 p.m. and reached Pizzato at 21:00 p.m. and at Pizzato we took veg paneer pizza and Renish and Promit took non-vegetarian burger something like that and Karthik told Drishaan to have a SAP Talk with his Manager 2024 he scheduling the call for 45 minutes which was very important from 21:00 p.m. till 21:25 p.m. and Karthik also talking about our breakfast is breaking the fast to take lunch and night dinner should have our dinner early at 7:00 p.m. as the stomach needs some time for digestion and then after dinner at 21:25 p.m. we went to Spice Cottage Homestay by walk at 21:40 p.m. and while walking in the road each one of us Karthik told to be careful especially while crossing to Drishaan look somewhere straight right left not elsewhere on the road while walking and also becoming aware in the dark as the place was full of dogs walking carefully especially from city road to Spice Cottage Homestay and some talks/discussions were going on from 21:40 p.m. till we reached Spice Cottage Homestay at 22:15 p.m. as each one of us were feeling very sleepy and slept off at 22:30 p.m.