Euphoria

A major worry during a travel is the health of the members. Long tours often bring great fall in one’s stamina mainly because of irregular food and water intake. One, we cannot expect good food to be available in all the areas, two, whatever good food available might or might not suit us. Taking snacks prepared at home is better and healthier than buying junk food on the way. A good supply of water is also greatly important to prevent any level of dehydration.
Also nausea and minor complaints like common cold are almost unavoidable during a tour. Simple medicines prescribed by the doctor for such minor complaints always prove helpful. The kind of food we take during the days of tour is something to be given thought about. Light oil-free food is the best to keep up our digestion in a good state throughout the tour. It’s never advisable to eat as we travel. A half-an-hour to one hour break is fairly sufficient to get out of the travel mode and eat peacefully!! Eating a lot of fruits can fulfill our diet needs for a tour. The water content in the fruits adds to the light and energetic feel one needs to have in order to withstand long journeys. Now, all this doesn’t really matter if you are hell-bent on traveling and knowing places, the people there, their food habits etc.

Do any of you remember the first time you went on a train??… Ok… It’s hard to remember, I know! But many of us will surely remember our first flight!! My first flight was a special one. It was on the night of Christmas 2008. I am sure many of you would have had the experience of flying. But this particular day for my first flight made it very special.
As usual, I took the seat near the window!! When the plane started speeding up on the runway, it was thrilling because I guess that was the first time I was on something so fast as that. Since it was a night flight, I was not able to see the sky, Obvious! But there was something we never figured out before the flight took off. It was X-mas night and we almost forgot the crackers!! When the plane took off, we saw little streaks of light cutting through the dark sky. With the usual but beautiful night lights of the New York City, the not-so usual lights of the crackers bursting out here and there in the sky below me made it a really wonderful moment for me to remember for the rest of my life.

One of the best parts of a tour is the “photo session”- taking pictures of the places we visit and also ourselves. Rather than just taking pictures of the places and scenery for the entire tour, it’s more meaningful to take pictures which include the crew members too. Such photos will always give us a nostalgic feel whenever we see them. What a wonderful way it is to freeze those precious moments of happiness forever. They bring us the very enthusiasm we had when we visited those places.
Ever wondered what those key-chains, photo-frames and bracelets in the tourist spots mean?? They do look silly, yes. But think of the day after a few years, when you take those stuffs and look at them with a smile. It’s worth a million!! If going on a journey is something exciting, what is equally exciting and refreshing is the time when think of those days. So it’s really something pleasant to file all those pictures and save all those stuffs. When thinking of the past is always almost useless, it is definitely not so in this regard. Talking about tours, it’s actually good to think of the past.

Wayanaad… One of the prettiest places to be visited in a lifetime!! . I visited this place in 2008. It was still such a peaceful place which had not been exploited much as a tourist spot. It is a usual hill station for those who see it for the first time for the first couple of hours. But then we start realizing the pure state of nature here.
Waterfalls and trekking spots which are not crowded, boating areas with clear fresh waters and the huge coffee and tea estates are some of the pleasant sights you would come across in Wayanaad. But wait, there is still more about this beautiful place situated around 60 km from the city of Calicut. There are wonderful resorts which stay misty almost every day. It really makes one feel like living there forever. Such a place is sure to make you forget daily routine and refresh your mind like you have never felt before. For people who like thrilling treks, who smile when their feet get sour after a long walk through the forest areas, who just can’t come out of the chill water even after getting thoroughly drenched, this place Wayanaad is almost a Heaven on Earth.

Places of architecture and cultural heritage always give us a feel of how life would have been when these monuments were built, what the people of those times would have thought and how life has changed for us. There can be no travelogue in this world which talks about Art without talking about India. These places bring a kind of patience and peace to our minds. They tell us how people had time for celebrating Art. They prove that Art lives the longest life.
The very thought of life would have been without computers, without cell phones, without so much of fight to make a basic living, the very thought gives us a peek into how our real lives can be and how they have turned out to be. Ancient marvels often tell us that there is lot more in the world of knowledge than we ever know does exist. Visiting such places is not just about excitement. It’s about widening our thoughts. But if you are of the sort who cannot look at a beautiful stone carving and think of the labor that it would have involved in its making, then you are definitely not the sort we are talking about.

Is traveling a hobby of the rich?? Not really. The purpose of travel is a change of place and a change of mind. It’s certainly not that the place has to be a hill station to be reached after a long journey. The spirit of adventure is not the one which gives us a thrill during a trekking experience. It’s the enthusiasm to look for the exact time to relax and a place to suit our needs and resources.
Being in the same place and following the usual agenda bores everyone. This is because, a human by nature, is made a lover of travel. Even from the ancient times, people have always wanted to and are advised to travel in order to bring a great change of mind. So a travel, to a place nearby or far away, adds greatly to the spirit of our mind. For a person who has always lived in the city, a visit to a village where life is very different, serves the purpose of a tour. If man doesn’t wish for betterment in life, there dies the whole philosophy of evolution!!