Friday
Today we went on a field trip from GCTE. Places I went to: Kuthiramalika Palace, Palm Leaf Manuscript Museum. All these were places in Thiruvananthapuram . Today 51 people from our college participated in this field trip. Similarly, the teachers of our college were also there.
The first place we went to was the kuthiramalika Palace. That one palace is very beautifully built. The palace is more than 200 years old. We all looked at the palace in awe. We were very much fascinated by each and every building work there as well as the pictures displayed there. There was a guide there to show us more about the palace. So we got a rough idea about that palace.
The beauty of that palace cannot be described enough. After seeing this whole palace, we walked to the next palace. What is special about it is that there were pictures of all the kings and the royal family who ruled Travancore.
Not only the pictures but also pictures of the important celebrations that took place there were also included. So after seeing the two palaces, we next went to the museum where the palm leaf scriptures are kept.
There were also things that surprised us because there is a collection of more than one crore palm leaf books and there is no other palm leaf museum like this anywhere else in the world. I was very surprised to find palm leaves from the 13th century in its collection.
Today was very useful trip. I am very happy that I was given a chance to go here. Today's field trip wassimple and today I realized that there is no point in going to far away places without knowing what is going on around us. I would like to thank all the teachers and principal of our college for giving me such an opportunity.
