The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only a page
Saint Augustine
The world is under a panic situation, as COVID spreads nothing like anything and we live in the hope to return to the normal life. Now we are drained out, and live with dreams and travel stories of past. We just have many colorful memories and stories from the past. Even I am waiting for that future where there is no restrictions to travel.
To travel is to dream, to dream means to experience. Everyone want such an experience, the experience of different culture, the experience of different people, the experience of different beauty and the experience of the real life. Yes, the world is a book with different chapters of travel stories which entertain and make realizations in our life. Thus, we are now moving on a blank page where there is no stories, no beauty and no experience of travelling. But never a story book will be filled with blank pages, so lets turn off the page slowly and safely.
Humans are always optimistic, we rises from the ashes like a finings bird. Everything will happen in the right time, so as the travel stories. It’s not a hope, it’s a guarantee that the travel stories will be back. This is just a break before a mega show.
Just chill and stay happy. Enjoy failures as success. Travel with dreams, Not with time… MAKE EVERY SECOND SPECIAL
A travel to Guinness World Records Bust Sculpture – Adiyogi.
It was out of the desire and curiosity that we decided to conquer the feeling of the great sculpture 'The Adiyogi'.
A fine evening at the college, where everyone was busy with their own works. Like the message of the angels of god, we received a mail. Everyone moved to silence, running their eyes through the mail, smiles spread out as to the end of the message and the minds of the students were delighted. It was always happy to get a day off, in the busy schedule of college life, where everyday is a working day. Everyone started to plan the day, few planning for outings, few for shopping and fooding. Few planned to spent the day by sleeping and washing. I never missed a chance to ride my RE and runaway to new places. With the great motivation of my friend we decided to visit the Adiyogi at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
We started our journey early in the morning (4.30 am) from Palakkad. It was freezing cold and was a tough task to drive the 78 km in that climate, but the glimpse of the destination was more enough to motivate us to complete the drive. In the freezing ride a cup of tea in between warmed our body, energizing us for the further ride. The clock moved on and as it reached somewhere around 6.15 am we could see the sign boards, creating more excitement in us. By 6.30 am we reached the front gate which was simple and big where the security guided us to the parking.
It moved closer and closer as we moved on the way to parking and in the first sight itself i told wow!!. Yes, we reached and it was time to feel the Adiyogi. We parked the bike long back and started to walk from the back , through the center carpet laid with stones guiding us near to the Guinness World Records Bust Sculpture – Adiyogi. It became bigger and bigger as we reached closer to it.
As it was early in the morning, the sunlight has just started to touch the sculpture, surrounded with mountains and farming land it was a mind blowing experience. The way guided us to a open space where people was engaged with yoga’s and prayer besides the sound of the tickling breeze along with music touched our ears. Just down the Adiyogi in-front, some reverence and rituals was going on where people prayed in silence.
We sat down in a corner and totally engaged with the environment. We closed our ears and took our ears to the sound of music along with sound of nature. The feeling of peace and relaxation moved along the body as we sat down, we were feeling free and our mind was walking through a new world where happiness, relaxation, joy, peace etc… laid our way. Half hour of travel through another world, we decided to take a walk around the sculpture.
When walking around i was quite surprised to know how this was maintained in such a beautiful manner. As we took the round and reached the front again, i was astonished to realize that the garland in the neck of Siva was made of rudraksha. I was amazed to think how many rudraksha could be used to make this. Anyways this is something you should come here and feel. We again came and moved to a corner to enjoy the beauty of nature and Lord Siva- The first Yogi. The clock was ticking much faster than usual. As time moved on, the area started to get crowded and noise with more people and tourist rang around. In the back side it was the food stalls, dhyanalinga, suryakund and others where we made a quick walk to look at.
We decided to take walk back to the parking to make the return and to be honest the sun was getting hotter and hotter. By the time we reached back the parking the area was fully crowded and the sun was burning out. Thinking of the wonderful experience we took the vehicle back to the college and I have to say this was a energy booster for us who were fed-up with busy schedules of the college. Hoping for new break to take a ride we reached back in the college.
I would suggest to visit Adiyogy early in the morning to feel the picture and get something more than you expect considering the factor that i haven’t visited the place during the evening time. It would be wonder full and interesting to know and study more about this amazing construction and the facts behind this.
It was just an accidental decesion to take a drive to the ‘Freezig zone of Palakkad’ – Nelliyampathy..
Two bullets ( 4 persons ) with no preparations moved on to Nelliyampathy from Palakkad. We expected nothing but we got every thing to experience. Filling up petrol tank with Rs.400 each, we started our journey and we had nothing much in our hand. With the help of Google map we just moved on to our destination. Now it starts ‘The world of exploring’.
On the way its the first destination is the Pothundi Dam where we just started experiencing the beauty of Nelliyampathy. We where welcomed by the mother nature with a nice and cool rain. We enteried the dam (entry fee Rs.20 for adults and Rs.10 for childrens), where the first view is to the park decorated with flowers and statues. Actually I sited it to be a couples corner and we just rushed up to take few videos and photos to move on to the top of the dam.
The top view of the dam is visible only if we climb the long 100+ steps to the top and we decided to do the same. On the top the dam welcomed us with the cool breeze and its a wonderful site where we can enjoy the art of nature and the art of man, where one side is the park and the other side is the dam and mountains which was partially visible due to fog. Being the energetic youth we never missed and instance of pic’s being taken. Its possible to walk to the both side of the dam which leads to the exits. Due to eagerness to the move to Nelliyampathy we took the same steps to exit the dam. But it had more than enough to spent a whole day out there, with parks, playing area and many so as.
It was drizzling out and we decided to move on. A kilometer away it was the forest check-post where they asked for the details and we continued our journey. As we moved on suddenly the road was filled with fog and it became difficult to ride further up (but some how we made it). It was wonderful riding through the fog, as like cutting them into two with my Royal Enfiled. On the way we stopped and took few pic’s as i said we never missed a opportunity. Through the drizzling rain and bisecting the breeze we reached the top, our destination Nelliyampathy.
We never looked to the time, until our stomach starting burning and we sited a small hotel to cool out the flame inside. Had a good meals and talked with the shop owner about the viewpoints to visit, he just explained everything we wanted.
We moved on to the Manaloor estate road where we sited the AVT tea factory. Opposite to that there is a small temple. Through the side of the temple it took us to our first view point at Nelliyampathy (sorry for not knowing the name of the place). We have to park our vehicle beside the road and walk to the point. The way to the view point itself create the ambiance anybody would love to have. It seems as if we are moving through a haunted road, surrounded by thick bush and half destroyed buildings. We again was lucky to see the view point with and without fog. We could see the Pothundi Dam and the way up we climped. Spending the time relaxing around, we spent and hour there and we decided to move to our most awaited destination ‘Seethargundu View Point’. Roughly 8km away and we moved on.
On reaching the Seethargundu view point we took a POABS Organic Tea from its outlet there. Frankly speaking, that its was an awesome tea. It took about 3min to walk to the point. ‘Mind blowing’ we could see the whole Palakkad and the way we traveled, noting was better than spending time there, and we spent about 2.hrs to feel it out. Heavy breeze and nice snow fall just relaxed us than any others. In Seethargundu we can walk around and enjoy the beauty of nature. As the sun was about to set, it was risky to stay up on the top and moved back as we had to ride the way back too.
Taking another cup of tea and bun we enjoyed the last momemnts at Nelliyampathy the hill station. With the whole mind with pain to exit the place we rided back to Palakkad. Like the blessings from the almighty the drizzles followed our way back to Palakkad, leaving our mind and taughts at “Freezing Zone of Palakkad – Nelliyampathy ”
I TOO WANT TO TRAVEL 