Last Sunset of the West Coast Trip

After quite a heavy breakfast, we started off early in the afternoon from Trivandrum towards Kanyakumari. 

Guys, some real piece of advice! If you want to go to Kanyakumari from Trivandrum, make sure you either take an A/C Volvo or an express, and ensure you don’t take up the last seat. 

Yes, you guessed it right. We took a passenger bus and a last seat in that as well. Starting and all was nice only. Just when I was thinking that this driver was driving well compared to the yesterday’s A/C Volvo driver, he proved me wrong. With roads full potholes and no roads in some places, it became one roller coaster of a ride. Wasn’t able to sleep either, because I wouldn’t know when the brakes would be applied and I’d end by banging my head of the seat before me. 

It was supposed to be a journey of 2.5 hours, but by the time we reached Nagercoil it was well past 3 hours. 

We had booked our stay at Nagercoil as the hotels in Kanyakumari were way too pricy due to the holiday season. We walked off from the bus stand to our place of stay, Hotel Reech. 

The place looked neat and sophisticated. The door locks were Smart Card based and doorbells touch-sensitive. We had booked a Deluxe double occupancy room. It was smaller than the usual deluxe rooms, but was compact, and minimalstic! 

Personally, I’m proud of our choice (mostly V does the work) of hotel stays. It has almost always happened to be good and economical as well. 

We took rest for sometime and refreshed and started off to Kanyakumari. Its 20 km from Nagercoil. We took a bus at around 4.45 P.M, keeping in mind that the Sunset was at 6 P.M. 

Reached Kanyakumari at around 5.45 P.M. The sunset point was on the Kanyakumari Kovalam side, about 3 km from the bus stand. We had to take an auto as we were running out of time. The auto drivers capitalise such times and charge a bomb for a 3 km ride. With no other option, we had to pay the price. 

The sun was preparing for the descent as we reached the place. Having had a heavy breakfast, and no lunch, we were super hungry. Gobbled on some masala poori, poris and boiled peanuts and settled ourselves comfortably on a rock and saw the sunset. This was the last sunset of our West Coast Trip. 

In all the 4 sunsets that we saw in 4 different places in this trip, I love one thing - the way the Sun becomes a perfect ball of yellowish orange color a couple of minutes before setting. 

Once done with the sunset, we walked back from the sunset point to the bus stand in the road adjacent to the sea. The color of the sea, the breeze, the evening sky were all mystical. 

We took a bus back to Nagercoil. We had dinner at a small shop near our Hotel. They served some hot dosas with a tasty sambhar and chutney. Finished off the dinner and retired to the room for the night.