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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Kerela Diaries

“Beware of your luggage” said the Saroma Tour and Travels’ representative. I thought you had nothing to fear of your luggage had you packed it yourself. I know that he was telling me to be careful with my luggage but then the english that he spoke was too funny to be passed.

Rickety old bus with a conductor who rang a bell once to signal the driver to stop and twice to move did not bolster my enthusiasm any further for the auduous journey ahead. It was a garish bus with a yellow-red color combination and that it was one of those old buses that you see in bollywood movies. But the best thing that the bus had to offer was it’s resilience to bullets. This bus was bulletproof because there were no windows but tin sheets to save yourself from sun, wind and rain. Our bus driver was a man in his own league the way he was playing the curves and maneuvering the vehicles ahead of him. Although a tree that fell on the road did stop our driver for 10 minutes but later on he shook everyone up by hitting a scooter. The unsuspecting scooter driver might not have any idea as to what happened, but we knew what we were going to miss if we fell asleep. An action movie with car chases and hit and run scene was being played right in front of us and we would not have missed it for anything.

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