Recently, I have been to Kajanapara, Kerala. Our family has cardamom and pepper plantation there. Me and my wife Priya left Bangalore on 25th of July. There was heavy traffic on the roads due to serial bomb blast in the city and added to it heavy rainfall. Somehow, we reached Kalasipalyam but the bus had left already. We got some other bus and started our journey to my native P C Patti near Theni in Tamil Nadu.
Our family was waiting for us to come home safely. We left to Kerala by afternoon in 2 cars. Once we started climbing the ghat roads,the weather changed completely. Cool breeze with drizzling made the travel pleasant. We stopped near Puliyuthu for few minutes. We reached Bodimettu, which is the highest point in our route, by 3.30. Most of the vechiles that pass through will stop there for refreshment. Moreover, it is the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We had refreshing hot Kerala tea and continued our journey.
We reached Poopara in another 20 min. It's a small town on the way, which connects Kajanapara, Munnar, and Rajakumari. We stopped there to buy some medicines for my mom. My wife was pestering me to buy some exotic bread variety, which she had in her last visit. We couldn't find it and bought her some other bread. I bought the fruit tea rusk, which is very famous in that locality. It started raining by that time. Kajanapara is 30 min travel from there. We reached there by 5.30 and had a good dinner and sound sleep that night.
We went there for a pooja which is done before the cardomom harvest. Next day morning, it was raining heavily. We made a tent with a tarpaulin and made the pongal out of great difficulties. We all were shivering and drenched completely by the rain. But in the end the hot, sweet pongal was ready. We made the plate out of cardomom leaves and had it. That afternoon we had a feast, and me and Priya left to Bangalore. It was a pleasant trip.
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