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Erode

 On the last weekend of September, taking the Friday off, we decided to spend the long weekend on a trip to Erode. Started from Chennai around 5 am in the morning and reached the Treebo accomodation at Erode around 12:30 PM. We took a break at a restaurant for breakfast and another quick one for tea on the way. The Treebo accomodation was not per our expectation, parking was available and the delux room wasn't good. So we cancelled it and took a standard room there itself. After checking in we went to the newly opened Kavery restaurant, which was just 2 buildings away for lunch. Kavery had veg and non-veg meals which was tasty and sumptuous. Post meal was the musch needed nap. Around 5:30 pm we drove to Texvalley for some shopping. No crowd due to weekday, the malls have grown with respect to the no. of shops and food joints have come up inside and near the gates. While returing back to hotel we got stuck in heavy traffic due to Ganapathi visarjan. Parked the car in a textile parking lot, walked to Kongu parotta for dinner and came back to pick the car after the traffic resided.


The next day started with Treebo providing us carry over breakfast - looked simple with 1 idly, 1 dosa, pongal and a vada but the taste was good with ample sample sambar and 2 chutneys. After having the breakfast we drove first to Chennimalai Murugan temple. One can drive up the hill skipping the numerous steps. Lord Murugar was in Santhanakaapu. A small size garland here costs Rs.150. Here also they wasn't any crowd, so we had a peaceful darshan of the Lord. From here is went to Sangameshwarar temple. It is in the Kooduthurai sangamam - merging of rivers Bhavani, Kaveri and Amutha. Erode weather was scorching at 37 degree celsius by then. We had to run before getting a shade to stand inside the temple. Here we had the darshan of Lord Sangameshwarar, Lordess Vedanayaki Amman, Lord Murugar, Lord Adikesava Perumal and Lordess Soundaravalli Thayar. Since we got into the temple via the front entrance we had the Perumal on the right first and Easwarar further to the end followed by the Kooduthurai at the fartherest. Kooduthurai seemed not maintained and devotees not being responsible enough. We worshipped thousand lingas here, one lingan with tiny thousand lingams all over it. On the way we had late lunch at an organic restaurant - meals with kaikuthal rice and returned back to Treebo as the weather wasn't supportive enough. In the evening, we left to the Thidal Murugar temple. Sitting on a small hillock in the middle of the city, this Murugar gave us darshan in Vibuthi kaapu as Lord Velayudhaswami. Some 100 steps to climb to reach the temple from the bottom of the hill. Had dinner at a small eatery near the hotel and went back.






On the second day, after the same carry over breakfast we checked out and drove to Pachaimalai Murugan temple. Residing in a small hillock surrounded by green fields this Murugar has a peaceful setting. Huge peacock sits in front of the Lord very similar to Lord Nandi before Shiva. Within 30 mins we came down the down and started going towards Sathyamangalam - we reached Bhavani sagar dam after a brief stop for a tea break. The place was desserted, visitors are restricted to only the kids play area. So we had to just sit in one of the bench there and return back to the parking area. On further enquiry, we came to know that the other places of visit too will be affected due to El-Nino condition affecting the rains. Hence decided to drive towards Chennai and stop at Kallakurichi. But on reaching Kallakurichi, we discovered it does not have a proper accomodation for the night so drove back all the way to Chennai late night. Had a small and simple trip.
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Location: Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

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