Eight of us often go out for a holiday tour in different places. We are friends since school days which
means we know each other for more than forty years. It’s quite long years, isn’t it?
Once we visited Panchaligaswar, Odisha. We traveled by Toyota Fortuner which was driven and
owned by one of our friends.
It was three nights four days trip and the whole trip was driven by a single person which comes to
the conclusion that how passionate the friend is for driving.
We left Kolkata around 6.30 am and had breakfast on the road. After traveling around 250 km the
navigator friend missed the route and we had crossed the turn for almost 80 km.
We all shouted at the friend and had to take them to lunch in a non-scheduled place. The lunch was
horrifyingly hot.
We were supposed to reach Roopark resort( the place where our staying arrangement was made)
around 1.30 pm and to have lunch there but we reached around 3.30 pm because of misdirection of
our beloved friend.
Anyway, we were tired after this long drive and decided to stay back in the resort for that day. It was
a lovely place to stay as you can see the hill and the beauty of nature.
In the evening we sat together and sharing the sweet memories we had in our school days. the
mischiefs we did, the punishment we took, the game we played. We were becoming a child again
when we were cherishing the thoughts.
The next day we went to the nearby jungle. We hard bison, elephant, boar, and sloth bear are
common in the jungle. We were driving through the jungle and saw deer, bison, and elephant. It was
so thrilling that we escape the lunch. we returned around 6 pm to the resort.
The next day we went to see Panchalingaswer temple and to the local marketplace. we had our
lunch at a local place with indigenous cooking.
The next early morning we left for Kolkata.
We always try to arrange these types of outings with old friends for refreshing our minds for the
new.
