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Coimbatore 2 - G D Naidu Museum

 G D Naidu Museum

Saturday morning saw us having breakfast at Gowrishankar's, which also seem to have been taken over by Annapoorna. After that we set out to G D Naidu Museum. Having seen the difficultly in navigating around the city in the car we decided go for call taxi. Installed Red taxi app and booked the trip from our accommodation. Red taxi is popular in Coimbatore and Erode like Ola in Chennai. We came to know that Red Taxi runs Pink taxi only for ladies, driven by ladies. After filling in the register and buying the tickets for museum we were let inside. Wearing mask was mandatory. There is a science museum and an automotive one. In the Automotive museum one could see the evolution of cars. A video runs here showing the first ever motorized vehicle run. Then on display are the various cars starting from the olden times, Wosley to the latest ones, Ferrari. Well kept museum has information on each of the cars on display. Having spent an hour here we moved to the science museum next. This gave details on the Coimbatore businessmen and history of how business flourished in this city. He also got to see photographs related to GDNaidu; his passion and achievements. Another one hour here made our legs beg for rest. 



















From here we took Red taxi back to our stay. In the afternoon we had lunch at the near by Salem Ravishankar. Meals was tasty and much like what we get in Chennai, nothing specific to kongu cuisine. Had a quick siesta after the lunch.


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Location: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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