trip down south........

i was supposed to post this entry two weeks back but i allowed my laziness to get the better of me... he he...........so this was during the second week of feb when we according to our plan left chennai on 7th evenin to go towards nellai or tirunalveli.... its a beautiful place...we reached there by 8th mornin and decided to go to the temple of lord shiva in tirupudaimarudar which is about 30 kms from the city iy is the ancestral tempele worshipped on my maternal side.....
its a huge temple which is relatively unknown it has picterseque setting on the banks of river tamarabarani.... here the god is said to be "swayambhu" or self incarnated


after spendin quite a while in the banks of the river we soon left for agasthiar falls on the way we went to ambasamudram a famous village in those areas and then we went to this waterfalls called agasthiar falls....here it is said that the waterfalls is never dry i.e throughout the 12 months there is water in the falls it was a small and quite one deep in the jungle where i could jus find a lot of baby monkeys nothing else...

but still the water from the falls was tasted by us and it was the true mineral water absolutely clean..... and then we came back to ambasamudram shortly known as ambai for lunch and what a lunch we had in traditional iyer style the food was so good it was so yummy and with the flavor of black pepper it was so scrumptious.......soon after that we left for the nellaiappar temple inside the city and what a temple huge took atleast 2 hrs to roam around it and we dint complete half of the temple........and then we visited quite a few temples inside the city and returned back...we were exhausted......

the next day we left for tiruchendur a port city about 60kms away and famous for its temple of lord subramanya we left early and reached there by 9.30 and we had to follow an age old tradition which prohibited men from wearin any upper body clothes again this was one huge temple but we finished by 11.00 and started back to the city where we had lunch in again a traditional manner and then we dozed off we went for some shopping to get some famous sea work and handi items and quite some leather works
finally on sunday we went for the marraige of our family friend which was the main reason for us to go to nellai and then when it got over we left nellai came to madurai and visited my aunt stayed there for quite a few hours and then left back for chennai by 23.00 hrs and was back in chennai by11th feb to complete a whirlwind trip which was great......