The Blooming Bus Stop of Wayanad: How a Village Shelter Became an Internet Sensation!
Faraway in the quiet village of Nambikolly along the Sultan Bathery Pattavayal Road in Wayanad Kerala stands a bus stop unlike any other Not because of modern design or technology but because of something far more natural and far more moving Each monsoon this humble shelter erupts in a canopy of purple wild garlic blooms drawing Instagrammers schoolchildren and tourists alike But behind this unlikely Insta spot lies a deeply human story of two local men a flowering vine and twelve years of care hope and quiet dedication A Flowering Dream Rooted in PurposeThe story begins over a decade ago with Joy Kottukkara a daily wage laborer and E S Varghese a local farmer The bus stop was nothing special just another public structure prone to misuse neglect and decay Miscreants often roamed there at night In the two men planted a wild garlic creeper at the stop not for