Cochin Calicut and then on to Wayanad via Kalpetta

There are plenty of luxary buses, many of the brand Hino going to Bangalore. They go via Kalpetta and Sultan Bathery (Sultan's Battery). Most of these buses start at Cochin in the evenings, something like 6 PM and reach Bangalore in the Morning. Idea is that , while passengers, sleep, the driver keeps going. These drivers are chaps with good night vision, and with a good idea of where every pothole is. Buses and big, and even where there is an accident, deaths are rare. At least, we dont hear of them in the news papers. So Consider them safe.

Convenient and cheap, is train travel. But why do people opt for road trips like this. The point is that, rail seats are limited, and one has to plan and book his railway seat much , much in advance. Would Laloo prasad try to make money of this route as well. May be he could introduce something special like Gharib Rathh ( means poor mans chariot, for what ever reason) which has only airconditioned seats, and charges are like three times higher. Even so, charges are much cheaper than an air conditioned hotel room. Don't you see, these trains offer , sleep while you travel- in airconditioned comfort.