::Back to CMS College, Kottayam

Holidays at home never complete without a visit to CMS College, Kottayam. Since 1998 (my final B.Sc), I (Deepu Mathew) have been visiting CMS at least once in a year. It’s one of the best place to hang out with friends, there is always so much to speak about the nook and corners of CMS college and the golden old days.

So day before this “Thiruvonam” day, my friend Anil and I visited CMS college after a years time. I couldn’t hear the voice and noise of guys and gals in the college. Ohh yes….its a holiday for everyone. But it doesn’t stop me to spend some time in the college. We spoke about those golden degree days once again and able to recollect the faded faces. Stopped at our famous round aana, the telephone post “my back rest”, college ground, lovers path, physics dept, great hall and so on…

I kept on capturing the greenery of the college with my Canon S2 IS. Finally after two hours of time, we returned to home. Hope to come back to the “Great CMS” again.

Vagamon:: The Land of Tea Estates

We, my friend Anil his friend Anu and I, were lucky to escape from the routine work and to go for a thrilling experience of Green Vagamon, the land of Tea estates near Kottayam-Idukki boarder in Kerala.
We started from kottayam at 10:30 am for a 65 kms travel by Anil's car. It was raining and witnesses a minor accident on the way, but that doesn't stop us to see the land of tea gardens. But we have lost good amount of time to finish all the formalities.

We stopped at Erattupettai for taking some snaps of hills before heading towards the hairpin roads. Also spend some time at Maramala water falls near Teekoy Rubber Estate.

There is often a saying that you do not need to carry a travel guide to Vagamon hills. WHY? It's so simple. As soon as you reach the foot of the fills, you get wrapped in mist and from here the mist is you guide.

The zig-zag roads and the tea gardens on either side are breathtaking. We found some place for parking and started walking to one of the tea estates. There was no sign of anybody and we enjoyed every moment of tea garden, a valley and the beauty of mist. I couldn't hide my camera and keep on clicking the beauty of vagamon: The Hills of Tea.

Maaja Ghar...