This is the first time I went on a mapping party and that too to Wayanad. I didn’t know much before about what a mapping party is, but I looked up on the internet and realized that we will be learning how to map areas on Openstreetmap and will meet the community and the people contributing to it. Actually if any type of event is happening in Wayanad, you can be assured that you will have a good time. Its such a beautiful place, you cannot miss the chance to at least see it once :)

I asked Praveen sir about how to reach there and we decided to go from KSRTC bus stand from Calicut. The journey from Calicut to sulthan bathery was just mesmerizing, I witnessed the beautiful sunset in the hills from the bus. I was just hoping that the bus get some malfunction and stop there so that I can look at it for a little longer. And you can even see pineapple farms there, they were just beautiful. There were even people selling pineapples on the road sides. I wonder how fresh the pineapples were, its like you can ask them to pluck a fresh pineapple for you!

Also being an open source software user and supporter, to discuss what all is happening in the world is just awesome, It was like feeding your soul. And since we are talking about feeding, the food there has just another level of awesomeness. At first I was reluctant to try the food as I wasn’t sure what it is made up of. Then I tried puttu, and it had no taste, and then they told me that the taste of that depends on the curry. So you better have a good curry!! Puttu mixed with curry tastes delicious, it’s just that I wasn’t able to find the right curry :) A tomato curry would have been the one, I will try that next time. If you are a dosa fan but not much of a fan of potato, then let me tell, there is a thing called “ghee roast dosa”, you should definitely try that and even better is appam. The only thing that I didn’t try was idiyappam and I still think that I should have tried that. I missed the opportunity :)

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