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This is another wonderful journey covering Tamil Nadu on Road(Dec 2020)..
Due to Covid times travelling out quiet challenge but myself and my spouse have followed strictly government guidelines to stay safe during travel. This trip planned during December 2020.
Day -1, 27th Dec 2020 Chennai -Thiruchendur Murugan Temple
We have started our journey by 7 AM from our home town, Since I had already driven from Chennai to Thiruchendur Murugan Temple earlier for my twin daughters tonsure, So routes are comfortable, while we are crossing the Chengalpattu Bypass, We had seen big traffic due to Accident where two people spot dead because of speedy bike driving. It disturbed bit while driving, we had stopped for our breakfast at Villupuram(Hotel Arya Nivas) where almost 200 km crossed for our day 1 trip,NH32 roads are awesome apart from multiple tolls and we have stopped near Thoothukudi -Tiruchendur road because of sunflower plantations .We have stopped to take photo's and some of other state cars also stopped to take photos most of location look so good like scenery location and we have reached the thiruchendur by 4 pm itself which is earlier on our plan. So we booked nearby hotel which is close to temple and we had dharshan same days itself with so much crowd(which is expected) even Covid period. Temple management had lot of restriction but still some people not ready to follow ..Once we had dharshan we went sea shore and had our dinner nearby hotel ..rava dosa and idili's are so good...
So Day 1 went with maximum time on car which covered almost 700+ KM done ,from Chennai to Chengalpattu Bypass traffic is more after NH32 routes easy to drive but one thing about NH32 which had lot of tolls and toll charges also high ;)
Sunflower Plantation
Day - 2 ,28th Dec 2020,Thiruchendur - Tirunelveli, Papanasam, Coutrallam
On our day 2,we started leaving the Thiruchendur earlier 7:30 AM to reach Tirunelveli, We thought of checking place called Mavadu(nothing special here), where we are not sure about location and where exactly located, with help of Google map try to explore but our bad Google map shown different place...we are exhausted with humidity and google map really routing hard directions. I mean instead of national highways it directing to state high ways which is narrow and small one which use to connect villages. Since exploring Mavadu took our half of the day, So we have skipped Mavadu to avoid wasting our time and routing towards Papanasam and we had reached by 4:45 pm at Papanasam Agasthiyar fall but police didn't allow us because of 15 minutes delay, So we had visited Papanasam Temple(Sivan temple) and started to Coutrallam due to Covid 19 issue no crowd at Coutrallam ..we though of staying close main falls most of Hotels are empty and bit scary to book room as well, Luckily we got room on road (Green Hills Villa) with descent price.
Coutrallam to Coimbatore
Day 4 30th Dec 2020
Coimbatore to Isha Yoga,Chennai
