Summer was upon us and we had planned on visiting few temples of South India for quite some time. Since we had some family visiting us, we decided to synchronize and visit few of the temples of South India on this trip. This visit was very unplanned but eventually we following following route.
25-May-2024 We started on Hosur Road around 11:45 AM and stopped at the McDonald's in Krishnagiri for our lunch.
2:50 PM Drove for another two and half hours and after Salem stopped in Cafe Coffee Day in Namakkal.
Another three and half hours of drive and we arrived in Madurai. Since we were two families, we had booked Viswa Service Apartments. We checked in for the night.
The only limitation with this place is that they don't have lunch or dinner service so we had to walk out and find something to eat. They serve breakfast and if you let them know in advance.
26-May-2024 We got up and had the breakfast provided by the hotel. We had requested them previous night to arrange breakfast.
We directly went to temple using a local rickshaw. Madurai has these souped up rickshaws that can accomodate six people easily. Since we were not sure of parking in temple area, we decided to take the local transport.
Temple was quite busy so we took one of those VIP tickets and had our darshan. After paying for VIP ticket, it was comparatively fast. We spent around one to one and half hour for complete darshan. There is no photography allowed anyway near temple.
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| Temple in the background |
Once done with darshan, our next stop was Remeswaram. We immediately checked out from hotel and left towards Rameswaram.
Approximately two hours drive later, we reached the Pamban bridge. We stopped here for a while and walked across thr bridge to see how the new bridge is being constructed.
Here is a video of our drive through the Pamban Bridge.
Here is a video of our drive through Rameswaram town.
After darshan, we had dinner at Sarvana Bhavan and retired for the day.
27-May-2024 The morning plan was to visit Dhanushkodi. Originally we had planned on visiting Kanyakumari but ast the last moment we decide to change our plan and go towards Thanjavur.
Here is our video of scenic drive to Dhanushkodi.
We left Dhanushkodi around 2:45 PM and drove towards Thanjavur. It was an eventless drive and we arrived in Thanjavur around 9:00pm. We checked into Hotel Sangam, There was nothing much to be done, we had our dinner and called it a day.
28-May-2024 We got up early, had our breakfast. checked out from the hotel and went to Brihadeeswara Temple.
It was a short drive to the temple. As temples go, it is really a remarkable temple. The main sanctum sanctorum still is in use actively.
We spent around an hour and half in the temple. We did make a mistake of going there little later. You have to take off your shoes pretty much at the entrance of the temple and whole complex was burning with hot stones.
After temple visit, we left towards Pondicherry,
We arrived in Pondicherry around 4:45pm.
We had some fun in resort, walked up to the beach and chilled for the rest of the day.
29-May-2024 The plan was to have breakfast and drive back home. On the way we wanted to visit Auroville. We had visited Pondicherry multiple times but never had chance to go to Auroville. So that's what we did. We started from the resort around 12:20 PM and arrived in Auroville around 1:00pm. We were done with Auroville by 4:00 PM.
Finally it was time to start back. We drove till just after Krishnagiri and stopped there to have our dinner. We left that place by 9PM and were back home by 11 PM.
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