A surprising day

You could call it outrageous or heroic or extremely foolish but I had a wonderful experience today.
The day started at 1:00 am when we were looking at Sujit's photos of his previous trip to Munnar, when I casually said that let's go there. As no one else seemed to have a problem we (Me, Anshul, Sujit, Bhatta and Rahul) took off instantly at around 1:40 am.

The drive was around 3 hours long and everyone, except me, took turns driving. We reached there at around 4:30 am and had Tea and had a small nap.

We woke up at around 6:30am and started for this place called "Top Station" which was supposed to have a Bird's eye view of everything around Munnar. It was 34KM from where we were stationed. The drive to "Top Station" was pretty nice and we got to take some snaps during the way.
When we reached there the whole scenery was mind blowing. We spent some time up there at the top took some snaps and started towards are next destination.

Our next goal was a dam (the name of which I fail to remember) which had facilities for boating in its reservoir. We reached there at around 10 AM at choose the "rowing boat" instead of the "peddling" one. It seemed to be a wrong choice in the beginning as none of us knew how to row and the boat was just rotating at one place. Me and Sujit were the one's doing the rowing. But after some time we gained rhythm and were able to make the boat move in a straight line (well almost straight). In fact we parked (if that is the correct term for a boat) it pretty nicely.

After our long trek to "Top Station" and the tiring (but successful) boating experience we needed to take some food, so we headed back to the Munnar town (as places near the tourist spots are too expensive) to have our brunch.

After that we left for the Rajamala which is the natural habitat of the Nilgiri tahr (looks like a grey goat). The drive to the place was pretty exciting. The road was very narrow, twisty, at a high altitude and two way. Somehow we managed to make it to the sanctuary (which is at a greater altitude than top station). The place was situated high above everything else and we could always see a steep drop nearby.
We were just able to take two or three snaps when Rahul's battery went dead. But we did get to see the goats (yeah Nilgiri tahr) and in fact some of them even posed for us to take their photos (no kidding). We spent some more time there and headed back to home.

Right now we are really tired and exhausted but happy that we made the trip.