We were planning to visit Queensland, Chennai from the third weekend of my internship and it got successful at the seventh or last weekend of it. Anyhow, we successfully executed the plan. This was really a thrilling and a nice experience. We decided to start from our guest house at around 8.30 am. But when four engineering students are going together there has to be late and yes we were. We started at around 9.30 and as we reached our dining table we found that the cook was absent that day. Now we had to get our breakfast in some restaurant which was really very difficult to find in a town like that - Ranipet. But good luck was on our side and we got it.
Finally we boarded a bus to Chennai that dropped us directly to Queensland. This entire one-and-a-half hour journey, we (me, pramodt, manohar and abhinav) discussed about roads in India, jobs in Tamil Nadu, industries in Sriperumbudur (this town is an industrial town which was on our way to Queensland) and Rajiv Gandhi. You may be thinking why on earth they discussed about Rajiv Gandhi on their Queensland journey. Well, guys let me remind you of Sriperumbudur – the place where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. The place is now his Samadhi and a large Indian flag keeps fluttering there which may make you raise your hand for salute – I did. This place was now a tourist attraction in that small industrial town. Many major companies like Nokia, Motorola, Saint Gobain, Borg-Wagner, Hyundai, Caparo had their industries set up there. Here I and pramodt were amazed by the huge Hyundai Company. We both thought the same thing at the same time. We would love to work in Hyundai at such a place which is just 45 mins drive from Chennai. And then finally we reached Queensland. Aah..!!
Entering into it we found the ticket counters. Rs.350/- per head was the entry ticket fare. Then we went on and tried to get into the maximum rides we could. The first one was the Free-fall tower which would take us to a height and then leave immediately. Then we went on to many other thrilling rides. Then in the second-half of the day, I and Pramodt went into the water theme park inside Queensland only. We enjoyed around 2 hours there. The sad part was that we couldn’t take pics there. Now after all these, we went to the Rope-Way Car. Though we had a splendid view of the park from the sky or rather in a mechanical engineers’ language – THE TOP VIEW but this ride was the best for couples. You can understand why…Finally it was now the returning time. Nothing special in it. Caught bus to Poonnamalle and then returned to Arcot, then Ranipet and to our Guest House.
