Dhanushkodi Travelogue Day 1
Day 1: The Preparation
Explorer :Martin Jacob
One fine evening I got a call from my brother “We are going for trip to Dhanushkodi. Are you interested…? “. At that point I didnt knew what or where Dhanushkdodi was. Kenney (brother) told me that he is going from Ernakulam to Trivandrum and we can start the journey from Trivandrum. That day I packed my bags and went with him to Trivandrum.
We started the journey to Trivandrum at about 11.pm (Kottayam and Trivandrum is about 200km apart). The 10 year old Mitsubishi Lancer (my brother`s) which had a mileage of 2 Lakh kilometer performed like a war horse. In the Erattupetta-Ettumanoor road we touched speed of 100km/hr. We couldn’t maintain that speed because our cars light was not that good and vehicles coming opposite to us was not dimming their light. Upto Chenganoor we had the problem of bad roads and reckless drivers, after Chenganoor the roads where good. By good I mean that it was well maintained with no gutters, wide and with all the reflectors in place. In that strech I was able to get the maximum output of our car and it was touching 130 to 120 km/hr (sorry bro you were sleeping). Around 12.30 am we stopped at Adoor for a small tea break. 12.45 am we resumed the journey; rest of the journey was smooth. We reached Trivandrum around 3.00 am.
