A Journey to Kerela !
Hi every body,
Thank you very much Amy for the corrections. I really enjoyed the blog. I was missing to put comma very much. From next time I will take care of it.
In December 2007, we planned to visit our friend Bela in Champakulum, Kerala . She was in coma and had been unconscious for past one year.
Me and Swanaam started our journey from Kathmandu airport. The flight was around 4 PM from Tribhuvan International airport.
It took 1 hour 45 minutes to reach the Indira Gandhi international airport, New Delhi. When we got out of the airport it was around 6.30 PM. It was mid winter hence it was dark and cold out side the plane. We took a prepaid taxi to KarolBagh. We had booked a hotel at Karolbagh from Kathmandu. Karolbagh is far from airport. Travel agents did mistake in booking that hotel, they could have done a hotel reservation near the airport. There are many hotels around the airport. We reached Karolbagh area around 7: 30 PM due to traffic jam and it was very dark. After 2 hours of searching we couldn't locate the booked hotel. We called the hotel and they gave the direction to the hotel but the taxi driver couldn't find. It became 9:30 PM we were very scared. Then we decided to take another hotel. The taxi driver took us to a hotel. We stayed to that hotel though the fare was expensive. We didn't have any other alternative at that time, it was already 11 PM.
Next day morning we had flight to Cochin, Kerala at 9 AM. We left hotel at 6: 30 and reached to the domestic airport around 7:15 AM.
We had some coffee at the airport hoping that we would get a wonderful breakfast in the plane.
Our four hours journey to Kerela started from domestic airport Delhi with SAHARA AIRLINES. The flight was via Hydrabad, the ancient city of India. In the airplane we got only a piece of sandwich, small packet of juice around 50 ml. and a tiny cake for breakfast. That much food couldn't fill our belly. I didn't carry any food in my hand bag to eat in the plane because I thought that we would be provided with lunch. But alas! There was a bun and 50 ml juice. By the time we reached Cochin airport we were very hungry. The fare from Delhi to Cochin was 50,000 Indian rupee.
We reached to Cochin airport around 2 PM. The Plane was little bit delayed in Hyderabad due to new passengers coming on board.
Our friends Shyam and Biju were there to receive us. We headed towards Champakulum. On the way we had lunch together.
We reached Champakulum around 6 PM and Bela's husband Tommy was there to welcome us.
This much for today and I will continue in the next posting.
Bye
Kiran
Comments
Hi Kiran, that was a very troubled jorney, wasn't it? But good friends deserve us to go into this kind of trouble, don't they? What happende to your friend Bela to put her in a comma for one year? I hope she's better now. All the best to you. Mauricio.
I´ve been in Nepal and in Kerala, and I´m Medical doctor and your visit to a sick person, feel me conected to you. It´s my firts time in BBc blog,founded in my reseach to improve my English. I was in Nepal in 1998, and in Kerala in 2007, diferent countries but similar in their people friendship, I have a lots of kindy memories about their people. I´ve never forgoten their hospitality, their happy faces, and the children curiosity. I´m very happy to conect to you. Marta Miquel Barcelona (Spain)
Hi!!!! I've just read your post and It's a pity you didn't get anything for lunch at the plane. Next time you should remember to bring something for the journey =)=P
Hi Kiran! That journey was a tiring and scary experience, hopefuly with a good end. Kiran thanks your writing I could realize that I had wrong idea about your country, especialy the weather conditions. Only now I looked better where the country is located and that´s more on the South. I couldn´t believe you that the temperature is so mild there in your previous blog. In my country there are the smallest ´big mountain´ the High Tatras, and we have temperatures deep belov zero in winter. All the best!
Hi Kiran, your experience with Sahara airline really made me laugh, and moved reminiscent of my visit to Bangalore, India, last year. Somehow, we could not get any time to eat, and left this task to be accomplished in the plane. The airhostess broke the shocking news that she can only offer us a small bottle of water. Telling you the truth, we were starving but tried to return the smile. Anyways, latter it became a joke and now we, usually try to keep with us something for munching. Now a few words on your post: no doubt, it is a hilarious story in on way or other. Actually, this type of incidents makes your journey memorable. Hope you share more adventurous events of you life.
Hi Kiran- the description of your journey to Kerala is very compelling, while I was reading it I could imagine your feelings. I'm looking forward to reading the rest. Best wishes
Hi Kiran, It´s been so nice reading your rich comments full of curiosities about you and your country!I´m a late blogger who missed all last week! So I went through all the late entries to catch up.I loved to see the way you dress. It is a pity, really, that your clothes style has been changing lately. I find it so much feminine!Your daily routine is also quite interesting! It is nice to observe that you always have some tea before the meals!Here in Brazil, our first drink is usually a tiny cup of black coffee which gives us a boost to face the day! Coffee also serves to gather us around for a chat, a relaxing time!So the expression "that is not my cup of tea" to say when you don´t like things, here in Brazil, should be "that is not my little cup of coffee!" Anyway, I loved knowing about your daily routine! The meditation bit caught my attention! How nice that before you go to bed you give your mind some rest and remove all the daily thoughts from it! As for your trip, what an adventure! Here in Brazil the airline companies are also very mean in terms of food!Everything is the name of putting prices down and making it a more popular means of transport! They give us peanuts , ceral bars, plain biscuits and juice, however in the past the meals were really lavish!Poor friend! I hope she has recovered!I would love to visit India! I read two nice books about it The third class train and God of the small things. The last one was set in Kerela and I remember the carachers travelling to the cities of Cochin and Hyderabad! It would be so nice to see some pictures!I will be anxious waiting for more news! Love, Monica
Hi Kiran. I wish you had a great time with your lunch. Claim down!!! Anyway, I will think the same as you but I don't have any chance to go somewhere by going to airport. Cheers.
Hi Kiran. It's my first time to write here. I started to read what you have written from first day. I am glad to have read just first page you have written. You are really good in english. I can only write more after going through this blog. I showed my daughter the pictures you put on the blog.O.K. Best of luck.
i am new to this blog although i have always learn from english from bbc language.i want someone to comment on this saying i am working on.here it is "trying to be careful enough is not enough to be careful enough"comments please
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