Trip to Kodaikanal-Part XI

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The next day we said bye-bye to Kodaikanal and rode down the mountain to the hot plains of Tamilnadu. The air was very dry and even the A/C of the car was finding it difficult to cool it.
We took a different route while returning as we were going to visit Tarakka’s grandmother, uncle and aunt [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal-Part X

 
Dear readers
After lunch we started to the Chettiars Park. It is on the way to the Kurinji temple and is a very beautiful park. As it is not near the center of Kodai city there were not many tourists about. There were many many beautiful flowers and also bushes that had been cut and [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part IX

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I am back
The next day after a hot bath (or cold as some of us did not get hot water that day) we ordered our breakfast. As that day had been declared as a day of strike in Tamilnadu for some reason or other we did not go out until twelve noon. The strikers might [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part VIII

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Here is the continuation-
From the Coakers walk we went to the Kurinji Andavar temple, situated 3kms from the lake. This temple is the home of Lord Muruga, riding on a peacock. The shrine was built in 1936, by an European lady, who had adopted Hinduism and renamed herself as Lilavati Ramanathan.
In the [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part VII

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Here’s all about Coaker’s Walk.We found out that the Coaker’s Walk was next to the lake, and so we decided to go there after we had our lunch. Later, after a rest, we went to the lake and climbed a steep road, leading to the Coaker’s Walk. This is a tiled path along the [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part VI

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From the Kodai lake, we went to the park just next to it called Bryant Park. It was built by a British man named Bryant, and is actually a small botanical park. t was beautiful with lots and lots of fascinating flowers. There were roses, Dahlias, Tulips and many many more varieties. [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part V

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The next day, 30th March, early in the morning, we went to the Kodai lake. The lake is star shaped, and has deep blueish-green water. It was created in 1863 by Sir Vere Henry Levinge, collector of Madurai district, who settled in Kodai after his retirement.
The area of the lake isĀ  24 hectres and its [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part IV

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After watching the mischievous customers, off we went towards the city. We could feel the coolness in the air. There were only a few hours left for bed time and so we decided to take the day off. Oh! It was tough to find the place we were to stay at. We were going [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part III

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Here is the continuation from Part II.
We had travelled for about 10 minutes from Palani before dad realized that he had forgotten to fill the petrol tank. So we turned and went back to a Reliance petrol pump in Palani which we had noticed earlier. On the way, we saw a caution board on [...]



Trip to Kodaikanal – Part II

Hello! Here is Part II from my trip to Kodaikanal.
We sat enjoying the greenery of Kerala, and the road was a very smooth four laned one. On the way, we could see may types of trees and houses on both sides of the road. After about 2 hours we crossed a check post and oh! [...]