Day 2 of Yelagiri trip began lazily with a thick fog. After discussing a lot about a trekking trip to Swamimalai or driving to Jalagamparai waterfalls, we had decided to take it easy and spend half the day in Yelagiri itself. After a hearty breakfast, we started with the walk around the lake, stopping at many [...]
Yelagiri is a small hill station near Tirupattur / Vaniyambadi in Vellore District, about 150 Kms from Bangalore and 220 from Chennai. Not very well known, with very little to see or do, it is nevertheless getting increasing crowd from Bangalore and Chennai due to it being just off the 4 lane Golden Quadrilateral route. [...]
Kumbakonam is the temple town of Tamilnadu bar none (barring perhaps Kanchi, but it will be a close fight). I fondly remember one rushed trip visiting 7-8 temples in a day last November. Forget weekend, even a week is not enough to do justice to this place. These huge temples, some famous, many less so, stand silently as finest monuments of Chola [...]
Pudukkottai, a district (also a town by that name) bordering Trichy, is a less well known place of Tamilnadu but hides more history than many of its more famous neighbors. In this region were found some of the oldest human remains in Tamilnadu. It is also home to many of the the rock-cut, cave temples (mostly Hindu but also Jain and buddhist) [...]
A quick and easy (lazy) way to update, I will post Temple photos on weekends.
Starting with Srirangam, the first and foremost among the Vaishnavite Divya Desams, courtesy Google Earth
Surprising (or because of it) for a person born and brought up on the banks of Koovum in Chennai, I retain a very strong love for rivers, especially when they are brimming with water. As a Tamil, the river Cauvery is very special to me and my heart bleeds to see the dry sands of [...]