Jai Vasavi Mata Jai
{Family Tour – 2500 km - December 2023 – Trains and cars}
Hi! Welcome to all readers and viewers of this blog (Deccan Vysya blog). Today I like to share my temple tour which I travelled in
December 2023. Before that I like to wish you a happy new year 2024 😊 and also Happy Sankranti day – year 2024😊
Every year I travel out of the state. And this year -
my travel tour - Tamilnadu state. I live in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
In Tamilnadu, there are 33,000 ANCIENT TEMPLES
situated in this state and its big history hidden.
Few years back, I have covered temples in south side
Tamilnadu. Now I covered temples in east side Tamilnadu.
Now I will share my temple trip tour photos and videos
and also my observations. Keep reading!
My journey trip:
On first day, we (my father, my mother and me) went
travelled to Chennai from Hyderabad. As my own brother stay there.
And it’s heavy rains and floods time in Chennai. For
God’s sake – there is no water in that area (IT companies are situated) where
we lived in Chennai. See the image below:
On that day at night, we went to a hotel called –
Mathsya (Pure vegetarian food) and had our dinner. Here, one thing I like to
say that – I have seen Thanjavur painting frame of lord Vishnu in front the
gate of this hotel entrance.
Here I have observed that Thanjavur paintings are two types – 1. Some are made by pure gold frames and 2. Some are made by brass metal frames. See the images below:
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After dinner, we went to see some
shopping places like Saravana Selvarathnam Stores.
Note: Saravana Selvarathnam Stores is a
shopping mall where you can buy gold, silver, diamonds, sofa, men and women clothes,
kitchen items, provision supermarket, vegetables and all a to z items are available.
If you are a MBA student, you can
understand that this business annual turnover of about ₹ 2495 crore and all
unique business ideas.
Mainly in that stores, for the first time I have seen this silver items collections. See the image below:
As we were booked train tickets to Kumbakonam but it
was in waiting list. So, the next day, we have planned to go to Puducherry
(this place is also called as Pondicherry).
While going to cottage which we booked in Puducherry on
the way you will see Puducherry university. See the image below:
Note: Puducherry
is place where you will see oceans, shopping, French colony, Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Manthri Mandir and food courts. See the image below:
By the way, here you need to know about French
colony – the local people in Puducherry said French people came here for
business and settled also build homes in this place. I have read this subject
in school books mainly in social (History) subject and also in MBA about East
India company. See the images of French
colony below:
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See the ocean image below:
Here we had food at Kailash Parbat Hotel in Puducherry.
This hotel is situated at many places in all over the world. See the images
below:
And we had dinner in A2b veg restaurant and slept in cottage. After returning to home in Chennai.
The next day, our train tickets were booked. we reached Kumbakonam place (Kumbakonam place is also called Temple city. In every one kilometer, you will find a temple). We had tiffin, lunch and dinner at Balaji Bhavan hotel. Later booked a car for few days for temple tour. See the images of temples.
Note:
At first, we visited 9 Navagraha places and also visited lord Vishnu and
lord Venkateshwara swamy temples. See the images below:
Here I was very happy by seeing elephants dancing
in front of temples. See the image below: Here this elephant is so much beautifully decorated also it’s smiling. Frankly speaking I like
elephants.
Note: If you give money to this elephant in return it will bless you on your head.
Here one interesting temple I have seen – this temple real history is shown in PS1 and PS2 movie. Story – King chola son (Chola dynasty) – whenever he goes out from home. At first, he sees the god of temple from his home – window. Likewise, temple is built. See the image below:
Next, we went to Thanjavur place – near Thanjavur
there are so many villages are surrounded. See the images and video below:
This temple named Brihadeshwara temple and photo of this temple was printed in Indian currency notes too. It will take 2 hours to see whole temple and one have to go inside with map. This place has very long history. This full story is available in Wikipedia.
Likewise, while coming out I have seen a peacock. See the image:
In this journey, we have covered other famous temples nearby
Kumbakonam and also my observations are here:
1: This is one of the temples famous. See the image
below:
Note: Here
I have seen a person photo – he was a person who appeared in inauguration of
new Parliament Building with prime minister Narender Modi.
(Watch this video: Spectacular scenes from the inauguration of new Parliament Building - PMO India - May 28, 2023)
2: I have seen Sir. Srinivasa Ramanujan Home on his
birth day. See the images below:
3: 500 rupees notes should be banned because no one is
giving change for 500.
4: 10 rupees coin is valid in Tamilnadu but in Hyderabad,
no one is taking 10-rupee coin. In addition, 20-rupee coin came in exist now in
India (Bharath).
5: Tamil people eat more pepper and tamarind in their
foods.
Finally, this is my happy travelling 😊 journey of temple tour in Tamilnadu of December 2023.
Today I posted this in my blog. Happy Sankranti day – year 2024😊
Thank you for reading and viewing!
Maddali Laxmi Swetha, MBA (HR)
Email ID: Maddali_swetha@yahoo.com
My Blog (Maddali Swetha Blog): http://maddaliswetha.blogspot.com/
