TL; DR: Conclusion
This is a travelogue of my trip to Nehru Place with my friends.
Our first midterm exam in college just got finished, and it was my birthday, and one of my friends wanted to buy a laptop so wanted to have a look at the price and specs available. So we 5 friends (Sanyam, Prabhat, Ishan, Himanshu and Me) decided to decide to pay a trip to Nehru place.
It is widely considered to be a major information technology hub of South Asia, so what be the better place to look for laptop and what could be better than a South Delhi birthday party (Budget of the party was 500 :P).
So we started our journey by gathering in Sanyam’s room. There we decided that there is a beautiful part near Nehru Place metro station and will also spend some time there. As Nehru place was just two metro stops away from your college, so we decided to take the Metro. As a group of college friends cracking jokes, leg pulling of each other was normal.
We boarded the Metro from Harkesh Nagar metro station and 10 minutes we were at Nehru place Metro station but we all were busy chit-chat that when we realised that we are at Nehru place Metro station it was late and the door of the metro was already closed. So we have to change the Metro at the next stop and then come again to Nehru Place.
(Outside Nehru Place metro station)
After reaching Nehru Place, we first decided to look up for laptops so went to the Asus store.
There Sanyam carefully inspected the laptops he has shortlisted online.
Ishan too has to get his mouse repaired which was in warranty period so by the time Sanyam was checking out laptops Ishan went in search of repair store.
Now here is an exciting part, his mouse was not working because it fell from the desk but and physical damage was not covered in warranty, so we all decided not to say anything but controlling laugh when he approached the service centre was way more difficult than we thought.
So finally they accepted the faulty mouse and gave him the new one.
Then our next stop was the park. It was near the metro station, we saw it on the metro platform, so decided that we will navigate to park without the use of GPS. It seemed a simple task but was not actually that simple. In the end, we all didn’t know where we are but still as decided we didn’t use GPS but asked the way to park to a person and luckily he knew and guided us there.
Then after a long walk, we entered a park. It was not an ordinary garden but was really huge. We started walking.
After walking for a while, we came across a pond in the park. The scene was beautiful, but unfortunately, the water in the lake was muddy.
After the lake we found some swings in the park, they were a bit different from conventional ones then we came to know that it was an open gym set up by Delhi government.
After some fun on those pieces of equipment. We continued our journey of exploring the park.
When we move a bit more forward, Prabhat saw logs of chopped of trees were kept there, and this triggered his environment lover side of his personality.
He was really sad for those trees.
While walking in the park, we found a group of monks was carrying an idol of Lord Krishna and was travelling all across the area. Then we came to know that there was also a big temple of ISCON in the park in and those monks were from that temple. Those monks were also distributing books to the people in the park. Prabhat also had a spiritual discussion with one of the monks.
Well, this park was full of mysteries and surprises. Expedition in this park was not yet over. While moving Ishan found some local boys were playing football.
Prabhat and Ishan were excited to play football and requested them to let them play. Those locals were kind-hearted and welcomed them with full enthusiasm.
So after a friendly game of football we all four were hungry. So decided to head toward our party section of the trip. There were some great restaurants in Nehru Place Metro Station. So we all headed towards them. As per the rule, we didn’t use GPS to find our way out, but fortunately this time it was simple to find a way to exit.
Now it was party time. After reaching there, we shortlisted two restaurants. Epicuria and Taco Bell. These both had the cuisine of our liking and even pocket-friendly. But we have to choose one, Taco Bell was a bit expensive but we all wanted to have the taco and Epicuria was cheap but nothing new in it. After a heated debate Ishan yelled and said: “WE WILL TRY BOTH OF THEM”.
So we started with Taco Bell. First, we ordered one only one taco because we were not sure about the taste. The ambience of the place was beautiful, had a speedy delivery and excellent service. And the best part- “ They gave complimentary coke with every order with unlimited refills “. All of us had a lot of coke, we filled half of our stomach by coke only. The tacos were also tasty.
(Straw went through the ice cube)
We entered the restaurant just to take one taco and taste it but ended up ordering 3 tacos, Baritones and even fries. And landed up with the bill of ₹ 400. As it was my birthday, so it was my duty to pay the bill.
Now the second part of our party started. We went to Epicuria. Epicuria is a food court below Nehru Place Metro Station having a wide variety of restaurants in it. As we well Almost full also short of money, we decided to go to Burger King. It was cheap and good for light snacks. There we ordered 4 burgers and fries. Delivery speed of burger king was great, and the dining area in the Epicuria was nice.
(Poster of a restaurant in Epicuria)
Same as before I had to pay for all these burgers.
Now it was time to go home, but we extended our plan to have something sweet. So for this, we turned to Dunkin Donuts which was also present in Epicuria. We ordered 5 donuts in takeaway so thinking that we will have then in our return journey but didn’t last even for 1 minute after the took them. Their taste was good but I felt they were a bit overpriced and service was also not that good.
The party which had a budget of ₹ 400 got extended to a budget of ₹ 600.
Although the box got empty very soon, we still carried it with us to the metro station in search of a dustbin and threw it in a dustbin.
And then we boarded the metro and came back to our college.
Conclusion
This trip taught me that it is not the place we visit but it the people with whom we visit. Nehru Place is not any fancy place or any tourist spot. But the fun I had with my friends was exceptional. There were a lot of sweet memories connected to this 5-hour trip that is not possible to describe in words and are way beyond the scope of this blog.
So, in the end, I would love to say even an ordinary park has a lot to say, and even visits to ordinary places become special with friends. So you don’t have to wait for a long holiday to go on a fancy trip. Just find a company of good friends and a visit to even ordinary places will become extraordinary.
Originally published at http://the1001001universe.poetry.blog on September 22, 2018.