Tamilnadu Tour 2 Dec-2012

After i visited Kasi viswanadh,Varanasi I am back to visit Rameswaram to offer puja to Lord Shiva.

In this tour i planned to cover remaining places that not been visited earlier.

Rameswaram,Kanyakumari,Tiruchendur,Trivandrum,Madurai,Thripurakundrum,Alagarkovil,Tiruvannamalai

Kanchipuram,Thiruthani,Tirupathi

Day 1 : Started from Hyderabad/Vijayawada to Chennai ,change of train in Egmore to Rameswaram Exp.

Day 2 : Check in the room.Refreshment,had a dip in ocean ,went for Abhisekham with holy water which I brought from River Ganga in Varanasi. Had the breakfast... took rest....thereafter completed my lunch. Reached to Railway station by 5pm to reach Madurai.

 Reached Madurai by 9:30pm.Had my dinner walked thru the market streets since my train to is at 11pm kollam passenger.

Day 3: Reached Nagercoil station, freshen up in the station.From nagercoil to kanyakumari it's an 30km distance.By the time i got refreshed i heard an announcement that train leaving to kanyakumari is arriving on to the platform.Pleasant journey thru the greenery coconut farms.[Accomadation is also available in kanyakumari at Vivekananda gateway 1km from railway station].

Kept my baggage in the clock room and moved towards vivekananda rock memorial .One who r interested can stay upto evening to watch the wonderful event that every day happens i.e sunset .

Had my lunch and reached Nagercoil by bus.Suchidram a place where the temple for Lord brahma ,vishu and shiva resides and an 16ft Veera Hanuman statue can be seen.Offer butter to hanuman.

After that from Nagercoil i moved my next step towards Tiruchendhur one of the 6 famous temple in TN. Reached Tiruchendur by 6pm,took the room for the Night stay.

Night i visited the pallaki seva and also had my dharshan of lord muragan(Remove the shirt and enter into the temple).

Day 4: Early morning again I visited the temple for the dharshan and also for the pleasant atmosphere at the ocean.Had my breakfast and started journey towards Madurai an 3-4hr .Had the room near the temple(last time in the tour 1 the same hotel).

Visited Meenashki మీనాక్షి  amma temple in the evening. Night stay

Day 5: Morning plan to visit the alagarkovil and Thripurakundram.These two are in the list of 6 famous temples of Lorad Muragan in Tamilnadu.These two are located at 10-15km in either direction of the city.There are city buses that fly to these temples.Thripurakundram is on the highway and the other is the last stop of the bus.To reach ( Muragan temples ) Pazhamudircholai the last stop is Alagarkovil(place of Lord Narshima murty).Board the bus to reach muragan temple that is on the hill.This is the smalles temple of all the 6 temples of muragan.

At that night from Madurai i have to reach to Tiruvannamalai/Arunachalam.Reached madurai station ,got into the tirupathi exp passes thru Tiravannamalai.

Day 6: Reached Arunachalam/అరుణాచలం by 4am.since the previous day was pournami there was large crowds waiting in the station and also there is demand for the auto.autowala demanded Rs200,finally setteled for Rs 100 (3-4 km from station to the room).I got the room in the siva sannidhi running by the telugu people.

Compulsory we should walk around the hill called as Giripradakshana a stretch of 15km.We can visit all the temples that are installed by various kings and stars.

I started my Giripradakshana at 6 am,it took me 3hr to complete.since the pournami crowd was still standing and waiting for their turn for the dharshan i moved back to the room for the lunch.Had the 2 hr rest and in the evening i went for the dharshan and also visited the Ramana maharshi asram that is near to my room. Had my dinner took an 2 hr rest. 

Now i have to move reach Kanchipuram by night.since it is only 70km i thought of to start at 8pm.

Vacated the room reached bus stand ....since it's been sunday more services has been diverted to chennai.Got an last bus at 10pm that to some extent only...reached to that village in the mid-night waiting for the kanchipuram(25km) bus.As an surprise an APSRTC bus can to my rescue,reached kanchi at 1/2pm in the midnight.

Day 7: Since i had already book the room in Kanchi kamakoti mutt guest house there is no worry to wait until morning.Had a pleasant sleep for 3hr. At   6am i got ready and visited the Kamakshi  కామాక్షి  amma temple.In Kanchipuram there are two places to visit 1.Vishnu kanchi 2.Siva kanchi

the golden lizard was located in vishu kanchi.In siva kanchi kamskshi amma temple and the lord shiva resides.In the Shiva temple we can watch the mango tree planted by amma.

If you are free enough and the pocket is full have the shopping in the local societies.You can find number of varieties of sarees [Bargain as low ].   Had lunch in Sarvana Bhavan.

Afternoon i started my next journey towards Thiruthani one of the temple place of Lord Subramanyam.The temple buses can be found near the bus stand.Near the bus stand there are cottages of devastham from there the buses start to reach the top of the hill.

Several direct buses are available to reach Tirupathi.

Since our train in Renigunta is at 9pm,i opted to catch train from tiruthani to reach Renigunta(1.5hr)journey. You can have dharshan of Lord Venkatewara/Balaji in Tirupathi if you can postpone your journey for the next day.

MY TOUR IS SIMPLE GUIDED MY SELF IN EVERY PLACE.