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some food and made it back
to the hotel room.
We planned to get up early to
watch the sunrise but it was
around 8 am when I woke
up and when I had asked
him what happened to our
early morning plan he said
it was really freezing then so
even he didn’t wanted to go.
Since it was his plan to get up
early and watch the sunrise, I
didn’t feel much disappointed
with it. As soon as we got
up we started searching for
another tourist attractions
nearby and by 11 am, we
had to check out so we were
searching places close to us.
We never found anything
interesting but it was then my
friend told me about a very
interesting place in Conoor
which was not very far away
from us. Without any second
thoughts we headed there.
On our way, we had our
breakfast. The place was a
cemetery which was named
as Tiger hill cemetery. Before
reaching there or even on our
way, I was never so excited
about what’s gonna come our
way. It was indeed the best
place and the highlight of our
entire journey. As we were
nearing to the spot, we noticed
that the road was really
getting lonely. We barely
found any houses nearby and
even the way to the cemetery
was getting narrower, we
could see the spot from about
700 meters away and we
both were really excited. As
we moved further forward,
we saw a car parked right
in front of the cemetery. We
parked our bike and started
walking towards it and found
the front gate locked. For our
surprise, we found some men
standing inside the cemetery,
so went around the place in
order to find an opening.
After some search, we found
an opening and somehow
jumped over the fence and
got into it. We started wandering
here and there in the
cemetery and our entertainment
there was to find out
the oldest person among all
those tombstones by reading
the birth date mark. The oldest
person we found was Mr.
Robert French with 96 years
of age and all the tombstones
which was there was only
having the names of England
names and one more thing
which we understood after
reading birth mark date from
tombstones are that this cemetery
is abandoned in 2014
as there were no tombstones
dated after 2014. After spending
some great time there we
went to the back side of the
cemetery. The most breathtaking
view of a landscape
was waiting for us there. The
view was such beautiful that I
felt like spending there forever.
The clouds were like a
block of cotton candy and a
deep chest valley with a tea
plantation on the left. We
grabbed our cameras and
start clicking photos and taking
time lapses. After a while
a group people were coming
from the tea plantation place
and one of the them asked
us “how did you guys came
across this place” and the he
continued saying “Nobody
else know about this place
and I am the only guide who
take people to here”. That was
a weird moment. A few localites
who came after sometimes
also asked us the same
question. We decided to go
back even though we didn’t
want to. We were running
out of time since we have
to vacate our room before
12:00pm. The way back ride
was more interesting than
we came because on the way
back it was full of high slopes
and nice turns which always
thrills my friend to ride. We
reached our room on time,
quickly packed everything
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