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@Sri:: Was the HSRP paint got faded or it's a post processing by bikerfas???

After a sound sleep, the alarm rang in the morning 4am - yep the alarm which i kept last night to wake up early for the ride - forgot to set it off.. and luckily Jaffar and Ananth who were sharing the room didnt beat me up for that. Set it off and slept again , but got again somewhere around 6.30 i think... came out of the room to check out who else is awake - Vijay was there and with a Good Morning wish - i set out with my cam to capture the Sunrise. With some cloud formation the sunrise was beautiful and tried my best to capture through my cam lens. After capturing some decent shots, came down from terrace to realize that the cottage - the whole resort is amidst lots of trees and there was a good number of Mango trees next the cottage we stayed. Walk few metres from there, one can end up in the neatly maintained swimming pool with thick Mango trees on both the side . Strolled back to the cottage, cleaned my bike - meanwhile one by one everyone started to wake up... soon coffee/tea were ordered and some a morning chat session started on the places to see before we reach our destination for the day Kovalam . Since not much water in the falls, we tried to check out the Five falls - one of the attractions in Kutralam, since we have came kutralam - atleast one photo for the sake of memories you see . Soon one by one got refreshed and were gearing up themselves and their bikes - After a heavy dinner last night we skipped the breakfast and decided to have a lunch once we reach Kerala.

All geared up and some customary snaps before we leave the resort, we headed to Five falls. Now since parking was a bit of a distance from the falls sunny decided not to leave his bike and come which made him caretaker of our bikes too.. Now the Five falls which i have seen in full force turned out to be a one fall now and not much crowd too.. After couple fo snaps we headed back to the parking, Heat was at his best by 11am itself which set the hunger buds for few of us. While Aravinth, Sriram, Ananth, Pratheep, Karthick and Vijay set out to the nearby motel for breakfast, me sunny, Jaffer and Nishant munched some Energy bars. Soon the breakfast group were back and we are heading towards our next destination Thenmala. We stopped after few kms where some of them filled up their tanks and pratheep tried to fix up his chain slackness. since from there on the Road to Kollam is only one direction without any detours, Karthik stayed back with him and we kept riding ahead. Being a Friday, Jaffar wants to say his Prayers and we were in hunt of a Mosque for him. Within 15kms or so we were in Kerala border, but still we didnt see a sight of Pratheep and Karthik so we decided to wait. Time was nearing to 1pm so we asked Jaffar to proceed ahead and find a mosque enroute to Thenmala or there is a mosque for sure in thenmala, while we would start once the other 2 reaches and wait for him at thenmala. 10 0r 15 minutes after Pratheep and Karthik arrive and we started our ride back, covered some 25 kms from there on with a single stop for Photo at the famous Bridge and reached Thenmala. Now it waiting time. Since the prayer gets over by 2pm, we waited for Jaffar near the mosque at Thenmala and doesn't want to miss him so we stopped by the roadside itself. Heat was at his best and the large trees gave us the much required shade. Local kids over there were fascinated by looking at us and the bikes, and the attraction turned the Green mean machine. With sunny knowing malayalam he had a little conversation with them and they were happy hearing from him,later they quickly climbed the 30 feet wall kind - very agile kids. We got some water and cool drinks to quench our thoarts and say by 2.30 or so Jaffer arrvied finaly . Now its our time to hunt for a place to have lunch, but first decided to check out the Thenmala Dam. When we reached there it was hot and leaving the bikes and walkin in the hot sun over the dam wasn't our choice with the riding gear. luckily there was a hotel sign which would cater us for lunch - when we reached there unfortunately they had only food to serve 5 people but we were 10 , checked with them for the any other hotel - and were suggested with one after 3kms, but that was too far a distance so the people who went out firt found a Kerala mess for food. They were literally happy to see the crowd and we were happy to have local cusine


Kerala meals was tasty and our hunger buds were well satisfied and we ended up with ice-cream as a dessert J. We rolled up to the Bridge with the backdrop of the Thenmala dam, few photos and we were good to start our ride back again. After entering the Kerala, the weather had changed – with some 20 odd kms and taking a quick shower was spurted enough to make our mesh jackets wet… we stopped near a shop and rushed inside to get shelter form rain. After few minutes the rain stopped - it was unusually for Rains at this time of the month – but it was a pleasant welcome for us J. After that our ride was much pleasant and we soon reached Trivandrum and being evening hours, we were struck in traffic. With the help of a local person there we figured out the route to kovalam. One thing which we found irritating is that whenever we stop in the traffic signal, the police personal would cover over and ask questions like Are you racing? Don’t drive fast ? where you are from? . With answering all their questions we slowly confer out of traffic and reached Kovalam. We kept following Ananth who has booked the Sea view rooms, we came to the end of the road and after that is the beach and near that is our Resort but we can’t take our bikes there and Parking is also like a public parking – so we forgo the Sea view rooms.
Meanwhile, it was sunset time and we in the western side – so a sunset over the Arabian Sea is a must and with very less time to capture – Ananth managed a good set of pictures , while I got a couple of decent ones.

From there on our hunt for a decent hotel with ample parking our bikes started, luckily found one with few yards. Took a while before we negotiate for the room and finally settled down under Office-like cooling in our rooms . Usual routine all getting refreshed started meanwhile couple of us headed for getting some drinks for relaxing while Pratheep and jaffar left out to have dinner and get some snacks for us. After a much required cold shower – we ended up in one room for chit-chat session over chilled barley drink . As the discussions heated up, our tummies started to growl for dinner which we engulfed by strolling out to nearby mess and stuffed ourselves with the idiyappam, Chapathi’, fish fry, chicken Fry and other dishes . With a satisfied tummy we walked back to room to continue our discussions… All were discussing something, AC was cosy enough and I slowly dozed of to sleep while others were still talking…. So Day 2 ended in cool and cosy way