I have been longing for months to visit Thenmala and at last it happened in the form of a team outing. We, the ASG team, went for an one day trip to Thenmala and Palaruvi on 18th December 2009. A day off from the boring work for the whole team, a day to enjoy. We started at 7 AM from Kazhakkoottam, had our breakfast from a small hotel at palode and reached Palaruvi by 10AM.
There were 16 of us. Without wasting any time everyone jumped into the water and started enjoying. We were enjoying out there and i stepped on a stone and it stumbled, luckily i didn't fall over, but there were some sharp stones and when i pulled my leg out it was bleeding. After spending some more time there we started to Thenmala. Had our food from one of the hotels there in Thenmala and went to see the dam. Took the pass and it was a long walk in the scorching heat to get on top of the dam. After that we went to the adventure zone of Thenmala eco tourism, but there was nothing much adventurous there. Just roamed around here and there and then went to see the Aquarium set up by Matsyafed.
After seeing the aquarium we went to see the musical fountain. The show is there only once in a day at 7PM. It was a good one which lasted 30 mins.
Once it finished we started the journey back home. We stopped at a small hotel at pazhakutti to have our dinner. They were pretty happy to see us, there were not many people in that hotel and there was lot of food left. In no time everything was finished and the hotel owner was pretty happy, but then there was a problem for them. Everyone was ordering many dishes and the poor suppliers were not able to recall what all they served. So everyone had to go to the counter and tell what all they had so that they can calculate the amount. After a few minutes everything was done with and we started our journey back home. I reached home by 10:30 and watched the Indians being thrashed by the lankans and went to sleep..
