As I’ve promised in my Connect application post, here is a Bangalore meetup.
This was my third outstation meetup, the following are the first and second meetups:
- Photo Walk at Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
- Food Crawl at Mumbai
On the day of the meetup, I started early morning from Hyderabad in a flight and it took me around 60-70 mins to reach Bangalore. Now, my incredible journey starts. This was my first ever meetup where I’ve used 3 means of transport (airways, railways and roadways) for an individual meetup.
From the airport, I’ve got a metro bus which took me towards the meetup venue (Gopalan Signature Mall). As it was Sunday morning, there was not much traffic and I reached the destination 1 hour in advance the meetup time. To my surprise, Srivastava was also present at the venue on the hunt of places which are not present on Google Maps.
We’ve spent 2 hours of adding places and photos at Gopalan Signature Mall, meanwhile, I received a call from Sai Teja who asked me to come to Baiyappanahalli metro station. This place was around 3 miles from the mall and Srivastava has advised me to take a battery-powered scooter which also helps you to explore the places en route. Without wasting any time I started my journey towards Baiyappanahalli metro station on a scooter which took me around 35 minutes and I really enjoyed the ride. On the way, I’ve taken lots of photos of amazing architectures and add it on Google Maps. Thanks, Srivastav for the great advice.
Finally, I reached the Baiyappanahalli metro station. where I found Sai Teja waiting for me. He was totally exhausted on looking and when I asked the reason for the above then he told me the ironic incident happened to him.
Incident:- Sai Teja purchased a ₹30/- ticket token from his living place to come to Baiyappanahalli metro station. By scanning the token in the machine he came inside the railway platform where the train comes. Asked someone the way to washrooms then got a reply that washrooms are near the entrance of the station. When he went outside by dropping off the token in the machine he found that there are no washrooms at the entrance and got to know that washrooms are inside the station. Then he again purchased the ₹30/- ticket scanned and went inside. Finally, he found washroom at a corner in the ground floor (Platform is at first floor). Then he tried to scan the token but the machine rejected the token as the token got expired (token expires in 30 minutes after purchase) and he paid ₹100/- penalty for it. Now, again for the 3rd time, he purchased the tickets and came to meet me at Baiyappanahalli metro station. This was unexpected. Though I’m grateful to meet you Sai Teja. At this point in time, Suresh has requested me to come to Kempegowda Station (Majestic). This was the same station in which Sai Teja has faced the washroom problem. Then we decided to visit Majestic and add the washroom on Google Maps so that others should not face any problems. Without wasting any time we left towards Majestic and met Suresh. Three of us visited that washroom which was around 400 metres from the main entrance of the station (I was tensed) and added it on Google Maps. This was how we’ve added a lot of photos, a handsome amount of places on Maps. After adding washroom on Maps Sai Teja felt very happy and a smile of him looks very cute.
Though it was troublesome I enjoyed the walk by travelling more than 1200 kilometres across all means of transport (roadways, railways and airways). This was the longest meetup of my life with full of relish.
Thank you to Local Guides of Bangalore.
Photos Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/v3Ms7jHnosB1h6NA8
Video Link:https://youtu.be/uXlrgNyy_c8
