This was a beautiful drive. In addition to being a scenic drive along the waters we saw plenty of wind power sites. The project site is approximately 12 kilometers northeast of Kanyakumari. With more than 1,000 mega watts of wind turbines already installed in the region.
I was in Kanyakumari in 1987 with my children and my friend Sulochana. Since it was a bus trip then, we must have travelled in the night time and hence i could not recall seeing these. This is located in the Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu. On the south is the Indian Ocean, Southwest is Arabian sea and also borders Kerala on the North and Northwest.
We arrived too early and the Temple was not open yet. Even the little shops were not ready for business.
The main attractions here are the Kanyakumari (the youthful form of Mother Goddess) Temple, Vivekananda memorial which can be accessed by a ferry and the rock where he meditated, some exhibits, also a recent addition, a memorial to Tiruvalluvar, the author of the philosophical work Tirukkural. I saw a church at a distance - a beautiful view.
We had darsan at the temple around 4 p.m. We decided not to stay overnight at this location. But we were getting hungry. The driver said that the food would be awful here. Then we saw a sign Hotel Tamil Nadu. We drove to that place and since they served vegetarian food in that hotel, we had meals and buttermilk. The total cost was only 166 rupees.
SUCHINDRAM:
Again, this was my second visit to this place and I was looking forward to the pooja for my favorite Hanuman.
"Suchi" means purifying and the place where Indra was purified (of what that I don't know) got the name of Suchindram. The Temple has many musical pillars which have been carved out of single granite blocks 18 feet high.
The Nandi image in the temple, which is 13 feet high, 21 feet long and 10 feet wide, is one of the biggest of its kind in the country. The Temple Prakaram reminds one of those at Madurai and Rameswaram.
The Hanuman statue in the Suchindram temple is 22 feet tall and has been made out of a single granite block. I had special pooja sponsored for a young man suffering from cancer. I sobbed, prayed and begged Hanuman to cure him and give him long and healthy life. The priest adorned (on our behalf) the idol with a huge garland made of betel leaves.
On our way back, during conversation, Nirmala found out that our driver was soon to be married to a Hindu girl. So, Nirmala took it upon herself to lecture him about two things. One, that he is only 23 and too young to get married and second, to make sure that he converts to Hinduism and not to convert the girl into Christianity.
He gave a beautiful smile and went on with his life!!!www.googlemaps.com
I was in Kanyakumari in 1987 with my children and my friend Sulochana. Since it was a bus trip then, we must have travelled in the night time and hence i could not recall seeing these. This is located in the Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu. On the south is the Indian Ocean, Southwest is Arabian sea and also borders Kerala on the North and Northwest.
We arrived too early and the Temple was not open yet. Even the little shops were not ready for business.
The main attractions here are the Kanyakumari (the youthful form of Mother Goddess) Temple, Vivekananda memorial which can be accessed by a ferry and the rock where he meditated, some exhibits, also a recent addition, a memorial to Tiruvalluvar, the author of the philosophical work Tirukkural. I saw a church at a distance - a beautiful view.
We had darsan at the temple around 4 p.m. We decided not to stay overnight at this location. But we were getting hungry. The driver said that the food would be awful here. Then we saw a sign Hotel Tamil Nadu. We drove to that place and since they served vegetarian food in that hotel, we had meals and buttermilk. The total cost was only 166 rupees.
SUCHINDRAM:
Again, this was my second visit to this place and I was looking forward to the pooja for my favorite Hanuman.
"Suchi" means purifying and the place where Indra was purified (of what that I don't know) got the name of Suchindram. The Temple has many musical pillars which have been carved out of single granite blocks 18 feet high.
The Nandi image in the temple, which is 13 feet high, 21 feet long and 10 feet wide, is one of the biggest of its kind in the country. The Temple Prakaram reminds one of those at Madurai and Rameswaram.
The Hanuman statue in the Suchindram temple is 22 feet tall and has been made out of a single granite block. I had special pooja sponsored for a young man suffering from cancer. I sobbed, prayed and begged Hanuman to cure him and give him long and healthy life. The priest adorned (on our behalf) the idol with a huge garland made of betel leaves.
On our way back, during conversation, Nirmala found out that our driver was soon to be married to a Hindu girl. So, Nirmala took it upon herself to lecture him about two things. One, that he is only 23 and too young to get married and second, to make sure that he converts to Hinduism and not to convert the girl into Christianity.
He gave a beautiful smile and went on with his life!!!www.googlemaps.com
2 comments:
These descriptions are so beautiful, but it would be really nice to see each of your yatras on a map - perhaps as a link to google maps or google earth?
-Gayatri
Thanks Gayatri. I guess, I need to check my 'dummies' book for this.
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