I arrived from Hyderabad in the evening, almost tired. But i remember there was another journey to be made. Since i was in Hyderabad for the entire week, i had not planned for attending one of my friends marriage, I was sure that there will be no more stamina left in me to travel again. But one of my friends insisted on going, so we decided to attend the marriage. Since we had no plans, we had to book a private bus service to reach the place called Udupi, where the marriage was supposed to be held.I reached home around 7'O clock in the evening, packed a pair of clothes and set out again for another journey...
I don't prefer to travel by bus, because i have been travelling in trains since my childhood.But there was no option left so i had to take it. And since i don't often travel in bus, i always find it difficult to sleep, and it was the same this time as well. Even though my eyes where closed i was struggling to sleep.I some how got sleep late in the night.I woke up to the fresh breeze of air, which was as pure as a newly born baby!! . We travelled though the ghat section, followed by lush green fields and through many bridges which were bustling with water. The weather outside was beautiful and serene, as if it was untouched by anyone. Thank god we still have places like these which are not affected by industrialisation . The fresh air had soothing effect on us, and even though our blood pressure was rising because of the delay, we still managed to keep it cool, thanks to the weather. We were to reach udupi by 7, but thanks to the bus we reached two and half hours late.We quickly got ourselves ready and headed to the mantapa ( Hall) . By the time we reached there, the rituals had already started. This was the second time i was attending a Hindu marriage, and i was still not able to come to terms with the style of the marriage. I always feel marriage style in Islam is simple, but every tradition has its own style.. After long time and many rituals the marriage finally got completed, poor couple had to go through this and more was to come since they had to greet each and every one.
My friend was surprised to see us, as we had told her that we will not turn up for the marriage. It was kind of a pleasant surprise to meet few of old college mates who had also come to attend the marriage. Having met the newly wed couple, we had our lunch and we headed to our hotel. We had nothing much to do in the evening, so we decided to go to manipal, a small town around 5km from udupi. Somebody had told us about a place called " End Point" in manipal, so we headed there in hope of beach, wrong guess!! It was a park with the name end point!! We spent couple of hours there and came back to udupi. Having had a traditional vegetarian lunch, we decided to give our taste buds a good time. We had typical coastal food with fish, good one at reasonable price..
Incidentally i had booked the same bus, which we had travelled in the night so i was expecting the same delay in reaching Bangalore.. We had tough time this time around since we had got last seats in the bus, we had our stomach filled to the brim and bus would jump violently every other minute. We some how reached Bangalore the next day. I was very tired and decided to skip office for a day, also i had plenty of clothes to wash!! So i and my friend spent some good time chatting at home. His train was in the afternoon and so he left after we had break fast and i went to wash my clothes!!!!
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