Once our exams came to an end, our 2 weeks of freedom had commenced. The first thing that we, as in the whole family, do is to head of back home to Birthi(near Udupi) in our Hyundai Santro.
The trip was a divine ordeal, it was more like a temple tour that we'd been on because almost every day we unintentionally made it at least one divine place or a temple.
Contrastingly even though we went to so many temples we were always in a awe at their sight. One such temple is the Murdeshawar temple. It's simply a breath taking temple because of its location. A huge Shiva sitting right on the coast of the Arabian sea really a sight not to be missed. The entrance to the place was also massive. I literally had to sleep on the floor to capture the whole temple on close sight on the camera. The crowd that the temple receive is one of the things that should be kept aside but otherwise the environment is simply awesome.
Another such temple was the Temple in Horanadu. Placed in the middle of the valleys, this temple is also a very beautifully scribed temple. En route to this temple, you pass lovely sights of the rich Malnad regions and then you'll wonder and be lost in its awesomeness.
Coming back to the Murdeshwar ride, En route we stopped at my dad colleagues place for lunch in a place called Bhatkal. The colleague was extremely excited that he ordered for the best sea food to be prepared(that's the place's specialty) without knowing that we were vegetarians. On our arrival, he asked to sit in the hall and then few other colleagues who also stay in the same area arrived. And then the million dollar question" Is sea food okay with you sir?" and the dreadful answer for my dad's mouth were "No, we are vegetarians". KA BOOM. He was out of there like batman not to be seen for the next half hour. We kept ourselves busy till then talking to the others in the room. After half an hour he called us to the dining hall and introduced to the table. "All perfectly non-veg sir all non-veg" said Talha Sir(His name) out of shear tension. He then apologized and corrected himself to veg. We were having the food but Talha Sir, still overly excited, asks us to have everything but he had the least. THE SEA FOOD'S WAITING IN THE DINING HALL. Once done with the lunch we picked off from there towards home which was quite far from there, bidding our good bye's. I bet he must have had a lot on that day.
During our stay, we somehow made it to a movie "Love Aaj Kal". The theatre is quite good place, I mean you don't find such good theatres there so this one was pretty good and the fact that the tickets were priced at 40 bucks. Another positive is the students studying in Manipal also have to come there to watch a movie, so good place to meet new people also. All in all damn good.
It had been a long time since I went back home so they the regular routine also to be accomplished like paying our visits to close relative places and stuff like that are always there so they weren't anything special.
During the other days that we weren't doing anything I was playing on the computer which I had taken there and setup since the place hadn't had one and it was high time they did. Otherwise I was up to reading a magazine or otherwise a book or else watching the television which was boring most of the time.
Like a said All in all damn Awesome.
