Hello! Here is Part II from my trip to Kodaikanal.
We sat enjoying the greenery of Kerala, and the road was a very smooth four laned one. On the way, we could see may types of trees and houses on both sides of the road. After about 2 hours we crossed a check post and oh! the advertisements on the road suddenly changed from malayalam to tamil. We had entered Tamil Nadu. Now there were very less number of houses and only in settlements here and there. We could also see cool and shady trees like tamarind, cherry, neem etc on both sides of the road.
Then we saw something that looked like a huge fan going round and round behind a tree. As we got closer, we could see more and more of those. The tips of these weird things were red in color and as we drew closer we could easily make up what it was. Oooh! They were windmills! Gigantic windmills!! and then we saw many many of them all around. Wherever you look, you could see these fans going round and round and round.
Leaving behind this wind farm, we continued on the hot boring road. Then suddenly we saw a green farm. Oh no! t’was yellow. We saw golden heads looking towards the sun. Can you guess what it was? Of course, they were beautiful sunflowers!We passed the sunflower farm, and then we saw something delicious. Yum, yum, yum! Sugarcane fields!! We also saw trucks heading towards the sugar mills filled with sugarcanes. Hmmm… The farmers work so hard, and yet from those huge sugarcanes, we get only just a cup full of sugar! After driving for a long time, we at last reached Palani in Tamil Nadu. Palani is famous for its Sri Muruga Temple atop a hill. I was the first one to spot the sacred hill. It had a winch to go up, or we can climb the steps. But the most interesting way to go up the hill is the ropeway.
We didn’t climb up to the temple as we didn’t have time. It was scorching hot over there and I could feel drops of sweat trickling down my back. We had our lunch at Palani, and continued our journey to Kodai.
To be continued in Part III…
Cheers,
Rupashri
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