Trip to Kodaikanal-Part XI

Hai

The next day we said bye-bye to Kodaikanal and rode down the mountain to the hot plains of Tamilnadu. The air was very dry and even the A/C of the car was finding it difficult to cool it.

We took a different route while returning as we were going to visit Tarakka’s grandmother, uncle and aunt at Dindigal. They were very happy to see all of us and aunt had prepared a very tasty breakfast for us. we really enjoyed it. After a brief visit of about 1 1/2 hours we continued on our return journey passing the windmill farm, sugarcane fields, corn fields. sunflowers turned towards the sun, the cotton mills, the paper pulp mills etc.

We all were really tired and just wanted to reach home fast. My father drove the car as fast as possible in the heavy traffic and the heavy rain that poured cats and dogs about 1 1/2 hours from home. The thunder boomed and the lightning streaked across the sky. The car still sped along and we reached home at about 6.30 in the evening.What a relief it was to reach Home Sweet Home!

So, that is the end of this travelogue. Hope you enjoyed reading it. Please kindly send your comments.

Bye for now. I will keep on posting.

Rupashri

Trip to Kodaikanal-Part X

 

Dear readers

After lunch we started to the Chettiars Park. It is on the way to the Kurinji temple and is a very beautiful park. As it is not near the center of Kodai city there were not many tourists about. There were many many beautiful flowers and also bushes that had been cut and shaped like different animals. We walked in this park for sometime and then lay on the sloping lawn looking up at the clear sky. The air was full of eucalyptus smell and we could hear just the sound of birds. It was very beautiful and peaceful. We enjoyed the coolness and the freshness of the air and then returned to the heart of the Kodai city. As we had the whole evening to spare and no new spot to visit, we all decided to go to the lake again.

Trip to Kodaikanal – Part IX

Hai

I am back

The next day after a hot bath (or cold as some of us did not get hot water that day) we ordered our breakfast. As that day had been declared as a day of strike in Tamilnadu for some reason or other we did not go out until twelve noon. The strikers might start hurling stones at the traffic. So we lazed about for a long time. At twelve, we started on a hired Sumo to visit a few waterfalls and view points.

Trip to Kodaikanal – Part VIII

Hello Readers

Here is the continuation-

From the Coakers walk we went to the Kurinji Andavar temple, situated 3kms from the lake. This temple is the home of Lord Muruga, riding on a peacock. The shrine was built in 1936, by an European lady, who had adopted Hinduism and renamed herself as Lilavati Ramanathan.

In the temple compound, we saw a Kurinji plant, which was all dried up. There was a board nearby, on which it was announced that the flower had last bloomed in 2006 and the next blooming will be in year 2018, after 12 years. I wondered whether the dried up plant will really bloom again. There were not many tourists at this temple but much more shopkeepers around. The temple affords a fine view of Palani, the famous pilgrim center and Vaigai Dam.