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Yercaud - a scintillating tour (2)

Friday morning dawned in the beautiful hill station of Yercaud with the sound of cock waking us up. With the help of immersion water heater we got freshened up for the day.
Called the Venkateswara hotel for breakfast delivery. They sent the food through auto rickshaw for a delivery fee of Rs.70. Spoke to that auto rickshaw driver and decided to go around Yercaud site-seeing for Rs.700. After having our breakfast, our day started with the first site 'Pakoda Point'. This place provides a wonderful view of the hill and its surroundings. There were rifle shoot, bow and arrow and eatables like corn, chips, etc as in any sight seeing location. Around this place were old houses being sold for a minimum of Rs. 25 lakhs each. 
Next our visit was to lady's seat. This again is a view point with a small top to house a telescope and gives magnificent view from the hilltop for a per head price of Rs.5. There are tea stalls, photography stall and eatable shops around. You will not miss naughty monkeys surrounding us here. Our auto rickshaw driver cum guide took us to the Rose garden where the children's and gent's seat are situated. Again a point that provides splendid view of this hill. As we go around the garden we see greens everywhere. Huge trees providing shade stand there against testing times. Flowers seem to be very less due to off-season. Plants are sold in the nursery of a meagre price.
We headed straight for lunch after coming out of the garden. Lunch at the moderate mess was worth it. Being a non-vegetarian restaurant this place also took care of our vegetarian restriction. It was noted that away from Chennai as we head south we are always treated as guests in the restaurants taking care of our preferences, serving extra side dishes without you asking for it and making sure food on to the plate is hot and edible at an affordable price.
Having had our stomachs filled. We got along to the next destination - Shevaroy's temple. Its the temple of the oldest residents of the hill - the Shevaroyans.  While visiting we saw the deities in full alangaram. One has to bend at the entrance of this cave temple to get in and worship the Gods. Very near to this temple is a huge area where mobile phone towers are installed as this is the top most tip of the hill.
Coming down the hill we stopped at the Rajarajeswari temple and took are blessing. For tea, our guide took us to the town.
Filter coffee, tea and various juices available at this shop with a modern ambience.
Our final sight was the Yercaud lake. Rowing boat costs Rs.25 per head and entry ticket to the lake is Rs.50. While boating we found the water to be heavily contaminated. Our boat man told how much they toil to do this job earning only a handful. People here still have a long long way to go.
We called off for the day, after getting wet flour and few veggies to take care of our dinner. Bidding farewell to the guide we retired for the day. The next day at Yercaud continues in the next post..
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Location: Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, India

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