We had planned to visit Tiruvanamalai temple & Sathanur dam on Aug 8,2015. This has been a plan for more than two months and for one or the other reasons we kept on postponing. Atlast we(Karuna, Aji, Dhana, GS, Sudha) planned to travel irrespect of whatsoever comes in between. But on 8th early morning when I saw the whatsapp messages, I came to know that Sudha is dropping and me & aji were discussing whether should we still continue the trip. We then pinged in the group but GS told to carry on with the plan. Though we told some other places, people were having only tiruvanamalai in mind as it would only consume long hours among the plans we had.
We started from Chennai around 8.15 am on August 8 and after crossing the bypass towards Gingee, the roads were very worst. On the way at some place, we stopped for breakfast. To our shock, after four of us had an average breakfast of idly, vada & dosa, the bill was only 68 on a whole. In chennai, it would be the cost for a single person's breakfast. We again started our journey.
We reached tiruvanamalai temple around 12.20 and they told that I should be wearing a dhoti to be allowed inside as I was wearing a three-fourths. Gs suggested to visit Sathanur dam as they will not be allowing us to see Lord Shiva's statue inside as it is their closing time. We then headed to Sathanur dam, which is around 32 kms from temple.
It was some 40minutes journey and we reached the dam. There was a crocodile bank near the dam and we first visited the bank. There was even a swimming pool but we weren't ready to go to the pool as we actually din't have that initially in our plan and it might consume time. We then saw the crocodile bank and the entry was just 0.50 paise/person. The crocodiles weren't that interesting compared with the ones we saw at ECR crocodile bank. It was very hot by the time we started walking towards the dam. We all were kinda exhausted and sat for a while in a stone bench. We had a timepass chat for sometime and then started to the upper portion of the dam. The dam was indeed huge but not much water content in it. A person was selling those 5 rupees kuchi icecreams while brought our childhood memories. We all had two icecreams and headed to the car. We were all hungry and we saw a woman selling fried fishes for 20 each. We bought two and it was indeed delicious. In chennai the cost of it would surely be 60 rupees or even more than that. We thought of eating on the way but we din't. Me and Dhana went to a textile shop to buy a dhoti for wearing before entering the temple while GS and aji went to fuel the car.
We reached the temple around 4.30 and aji was making it late as he had some office works to be done on his laptop. After waiting for sometime, we went into the temple. My intention was to see how Chola had built all these amazing temple structures and the marvellous architecture of the temple & indeed that was awesome. We saw almost all the temple carvings, pillars and beautiful structures. We then bought some eatables from the shop inside temple and returned back to travel home. We had tea outside the temple and also Goli soda :)
We planned of having dinner when we near chennai and also we planned to travel in the Arani-Arcot road though it would be approximately 40 kms more than the Gingee route because of the worst road experience we had morning. We had a easy ride and stopped at Salem RR Biryani at Maduravoyal around 9pm. It was pretty soon we reached as the traffic was less. We had biriyani and reached home around 10 pm.
Though the journey din't cover much places, we younger bloods, are content with this saturday's outing.
We started from Chennai around 8.15 am on August 8 and after crossing the bypass towards Gingee, the roads were very worst. On the way at some place, we stopped for breakfast. To our shock, after four of us had an average breakfast of idly, vada & dosa, the bill was only 68 on a whole. In chennai, it would be the cost for a single person's breakfast. We again started our journey.
We reached tiruvanamalai temple around 12.20 and they told that I should be wearing a dhoti to be allowed inside as I was wearing a three-fourths. Gs suggested to visit Sathanur dam as they will not be allowing us to see Lord Shiva's statue inside as it is their closing time. We then headed to Sathanur dam, which is around 32 kms from temple.
It was some 40minutes journey and we reached the dam. There was a crocodile bank near the dam and we first visited the bank. There was even a swimming pool but we weren't ready to go to the pool as we actually din't have that initially in our plan and it might consume time. We then saw the crocodile bank and the entry was just 0.50 paise/person. The crocodiles weren't that interesting compared with the ones we saw at ECR crocodile bank. It was very hot by the time we started walking towards the dam. We all were kinda exhausted and sat for a while in a stone bench. We had a timepass chat for sometime and then started to the upper portion of the dam. The dam was indeed huge but not much water content in it. A person was selling those 5 rupees kuchi icecreams while brought our childhood memories. We all had two icecreams and headed to the car. We were all hungry and we saw a woman selling fried fishes for 20 each. We bought two and it was indeed delicious. In chennai the cost of it would surely be 60 rupees or even more than that. We thought of eating on the way but we din't. Me and Dhana went to a textile shop to buy a dhoti for wearing before entering the temple while GS and aji went to fuel the car.
We reached the temple around 4.30 and aji was making it late as he had some office works to be done on his laptop. After waiting for sometime, we went into the temple. My intention was to see how Chola had built all these amazing temple structures and the marvellous architecture of the temple & indeed that was awesome. We saw almost all the temple carvings, pillars and beautiful structures. We then bought some eatables from the shop inside temple and returned back to travel home. We had tea outside the temple and also Goli soda :)
We planned of having dinner when we near chennai and also we planned to travel in the Arani-Arcot road though it would be approximately 40 kms more than the Gingee route because of the worst road experience we had morning. We had a easy ride and stopped at Salem RR Biryani at Maduravoyal around 9pm. It was pretty soon we reached as the traffic was less. We had biriyani and reached home around 10 pm.
Though the journey din't cover much places, we younger bloods, are content with this saturday's outing.
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