Nelliyampathy Trip

Here i would like to share my experience of nalliyampathy trip.It was in August 2015 me and my friends planned a weekend trip to Nelliyampathy. We started Early morning from aluva, it’s about 9 hours of driving via aluva, thrissur and Nenmara. Had lunch from palakkadu and moved towards Neliyampathy hills, on the way visited Pothundi Dam. The Pothundy Dam is a picturesque locale with facilities for boating and is a nice option as a scenary place. As the Ghat road winds its way up to Nelliyampathy, at certain places there are viewpoints from where the vast stretches of Palakkad district are visible with its extensive paddy fields forming a verdant carpet. It also offers a splendid view of the Palakkad Gap, which is a geographical phenomenon in the Western Ghats 8formation in this region, bringing into view, parts of the adjoining State of Tamilnadu.

The height of the hills ranges from 467 m to 1572 m. To reach Nelliyampathy, one has to take the road starting from Nenmara that proceeds to the Pothundy Dam. There are about 10 hairpin bends that have to be negotiated on the way to Nelliyampathy. On the way up, we can see vast expanses of tea estates managed by different plantation companies.

Reached Nelliyapathy around 4PM, the road was full of mist and the forest and natural springs keep us energetic.  The hills of Nelliyampathy are also well known for its orange cultivation. Privately owned hotels and resorts are located at various points, as one goes up the hills of Nelliyampathy.

Room was booked at one of the home stays, In Nelliyamapthy lot of home stays and few resorts are available. After a small fresh up and tea, moved towards the Govt farm near Nelliayampathy town which is at walk able distance from our stay. Climate was excellent, full of mist everywhere and temperature about 18-20c.

After that visited the tea estates nearby, in Nelliyampathy you can see many Tea estates. By evening reached at room by the time food was ready & we closed the programs on day 1.



Day 2, we started with breakfast and headed towards green valley farm, visited farm house and Setharkundu view points., where one can have a fantastic valley view, and a 100 m high waterfall providing an added attraction.

Another location we visited is Kesavan Para near AVT estate.

One can trek or go by jeep to reach Mampara; another breathtaking vantage point at Nelliyampathy. Currenly some restrictions are there to visit Mampara. The area in and around Palagapandy estate has tea, cardamom and coffee plantations with adjoining hills allowing one to catch a glimpse of the wildlife in the form of Indian gaur, elephants, leopards, giant squirrel etc. and is also a paradise for birdwatchers.

By 12 noon we started return and reached back at aluva around 9PM, via Nenamra Alathur, angamali

Thirunelli Temple

Thirunelli Temple in Wayanad is among the premier shrines in the State. Situated at the base of the Brahmagiri Hills on the Karnataka border, it is about 30 km from the small village of Mananthavady.

Going with family is the best Travel I had ever experienced. Though I have lots of friends and I enjoy more with them....spending time with family😍 is one of the greatest happiness😊 I have felt. This trip is to Wayanad with my mom dad and brother was joyful trip. We started early morning by packing the tastiest food and healthiest food ever tasted prepared by my mom. Making it more healthier, she packed it in banana leaves which kept it fresh till afternoon. After visiting the temple, we left in the evening enjoying the breeze and reached home by night. That was one fine day of happiness.

Me,ATM & Two strangers

In general, every person used to say that as they love shopping, traveling, villages. I don't know why they love? I want to say my experiences with these.
          Coming to villages my friends always say that they love villages. When I saw in the movies this show The villages like a Paradise but when I went there the fields are full of mud which sticks to the foot, of course, it should be like that.
          And shopping it is one of the most difficult task Tome. I am not good at selecting my dresses so I take help of my mom. Now the game starts for buying one shirt she asked me to try 10 shirts.
         Not but not the least traveling .everyone says that they enjoyed a lot during traveling I don't think it is right. We get experience when we exposure to new places and we can meet many people when we are traveling alone. There is a misconception to many people that foreign people are not safe compared native people. When I went to Punjab for the first time without knowing the language and where I want to find the ATM. I searched for it and asked help to Punjabi guys who are going on the road. Then they took me to ATM without just simply saying the address and going. I went into ATM they are standing outside. I get scared that they are thieves with that fear I withdrawn only some money they went out then they ask me if there is money in ATM or shall we take to some other ATM. I said I have taken the money then they went. So here I shouldn't judge anyone one from their culture region and appearance.

Tada trecking with brothers💪🔥

It was an great adventurous , why because this was my first ever  trecking experience. First time comes only one time , so it is something special for me🤗

Pachamadhi, Madhyapradesh, India.
This place is situated in Madhyapradesh,right now I don't have pictures with me but I will upload it very soon.
This place is completely surrounded by forest and the Hills,  where you can go for tracking, there are total 3 waterfalls.
From Pachamadhi on the 20 km distance there is one place called as Dhupgadh where you can see the real fog the complete hills and forests are covered by the fog that much amount of fog is always there. Most of the time people visit this place in rainy season this place is generally know for the worship of load Shiva. The spciality of this place is there is no road way to visit all this place you have to go from hilly areas and forest,in all this journey you expriance lot of new things.
The real journey of this place stars from the Kajali Village the same village with 20 -30 houses in this village there are two big hills and the tracking on this both hills is very difficult. The first one is Nandigadh, and other one is Nishangadh.
In this village you can really goes closer to the nature I am sure if you visit this place you will definitely fell that you are very closer to the real beauty of nature.
This place is specially for the people who love to tracking and want to experienc Beauty of nature.
 I personally visited this place 6 time till the date, every time I went there I saw something new and exciting and experience new things.

Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple

Here i want to share something unique about my hometown with you all. Tripunithura is small city in Ernakulam district kerala.It is a  land of temples, has its center marked with the Poornathrayeesa Temple with its history dating almost 10 decades back. This is supposed to be the only temple in South India where one gets to view the ‘Poornatrayeesa’ form of lord Vishnu.

Virschikotsavam is the grand eight-day long festival celebrated in our  temple. It is set during the end of November, and this year it will be starting from 5th 2018, Wednesday onwards. i visit there in every year.The most striking part of this festival, or the highlight as we may put it, is the royal procession of 15 elephants, ‘The Ezhunnallippu,’ with the figurine of the deity held on top of the center elephant.

Yet another attraction is the “pancharimelam,” which is a traditional temple art form accompanying the procession, with instruments like Chenda, Kombu, Elathaalam etc.

Even though the procession is done every day, the fourth day, known as the triketta purapadu, is quite special. It was on this day, that we believe,  Vilwamangalam Swamiyar (considered to be a great saint in our history) made his visit. It is said that he found Lord Vishnu in the form of infant Krishna who was playing along with the elephants for the procession. On this day, offerings are made in a golden pot kept in front of the deity. This is believed to bring good luck to the people.

There is yet another story regarding the deity of Poornathayeesa here. It is said that the deity is afraid of firecrackers, which is why there are no ‘Vedi vazhipadu’ or crackers being used!
I would like to welcome you all to my Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple.

A Day @Kochi

19 May 2018 It was an surprising trip to exploring kochi after an engagement function at Thrissur. Me, my siblings along with aunt and uncle went to attend that function. Uncle suggested us to go kochi, because it was his birth place where his childhood was spent. It was really amazing to see that place,so many ancient buildings were there. First we went to visit a portugese church.The Church of Our Lady of Hope, also known as "Nossa Senhora Da Esperança" is a Roman catholic church in Cochin .it was found on 1605. It is located at the island of Vypeen - the point where the  Vembanad lake merges with the Arabian sea, with Fort cochin on the other side.' Uncle's baptism was held here. Near to that he showed us his Old home which was also a portugese building,it is cool to see its architecture. After that we went for a walk, there we saw Chinese fishing net which is an main attraction of kochi. Most of all localites catch fish using this. It is interesting to see the how they using that method for fishing. After that I drove car to a boat jetty were the ROW-ROW BOAT SERVICE available, we can get a ride through the lake to other side of cochin.
Anyone who is interested to see ancient buildings and their architecture, Chinese fishing nets and also experience the row-row boat service along with our vehicles can go to kochi. It is not enough for seeing whole kochi in a day. I am sure that you will be very satisfied after exploring kochi.