1st Day
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Started journey from Madiwala Police station Bangalore by KSTDC bus around 09:30 PM.
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Taken a break for a dinner after Hosur ( Saravana Bhawan).
– It has a good choice for south Indian food like Dosa, idly and all south Indian dishes you will get it here. Food was good. We have enjoyed Masala Dosa as to have light dinner.
2nd Day
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Next day morning at 4 O’clock we reached Madurai. KSTDC has provided hotels(Laxmi Hotel) for 2 hours to get freshen up and refreshment.
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Post freshen up we went for the Meenakshi Amma Darshan. Our tour guide advise us to have the breakfast at one of the good resto known as K P S resto and there we had very tasty Pongal, Dosa and Fresh Tea).
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Post Breakfast, We started by walking towards Meenakshi Amma temple. It was 1.5KM walkable distance from the resto and near the temple there is no parking available for the tourist buses.
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Mobile and Electronics item’s are not allowed inside the temple so we have handover all the electronic item in the mobile counter.
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We entered from south gate and our guide also advise us to exit from the same gate because things are summitted in the south gate counter.
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Morning time, the Temple was very crowded so we have taken specials entry pass (100 INR/Person) and after spending 30 to 40 minute in queue we are able to have Darshan.
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Temple area was almost in the 40 acres and you will get tired while roaming inside the temple and from one corner you will be able to see Golden temple of the Meenakshi Amma temple.
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Inside temple only we will get the prasad 1 laddoo free and for other laddoo you have to spend 40 INR/Laddoo.
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Post Darshan we did some shopping inside the temple. Purchased few items for the home like ( Amma Photo frame, sindoor and raksha dhaga) and again we resume our journey towards Rameswaram by same KSTDC bus.
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Around 2 O’clock noon we stopped for the Lunch. (Dont remember the name of the resto but the experience was horrible because due to high sun light and the hotel roof was made by tin)
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Post lunch around 3 O’clock we stopped on the pamban bridge for the photoshoot and to have the feel of sea and surrounding.
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Around 4 O’clock we reached Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial and here we saw the life of missile man and his struggle and success.
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Mobile and electronics items are not allowed in the memorial and entry is free.
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Tourist bus not allowed inside the city(Rameswaram) so KSTDC has arrange mini buses to drop at hotel Ramajayam.
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Thirtha snana, Temple visit and stay for the night. ( Frist we visited bank of Indian Ocean and after that we has taken bath in 21 Kund for that we need to pay 200/person )
3rd Day
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Morning around 06.00, We had Spatika Lingaa Darshan in Rameswaram Temple
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After Rameswaram Temple darshan ,we started for DhanushKoti ( DhanushKoti was not included in the KSTDC package but we requested our guide to arrange one bus so we can also see the DhanushKoti )-
This place was when Ram was planning to find Sita in Sri Lanka. This place is very near from Sri Lanka.
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After visiting DhanushKoti we had our breakfast and again started to have Darshan of Vibhishana temple.
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Final place was Kanyakumari so we started to visit this place. We stopped for the lunch and same place we had nice Halwa which is very Famous on this place.
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It took around complete day for us to reach Kanyakumari. We reached in evening time and had first Dharshan of Suchindram Temple and post that Kanyakumari View Sunset.
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Checked in to Hotel (The Gopinivas Grand) and finally had Kanyakumari Temple Darshan.
4th Day
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Next day morning we have started to have Sunrise view in this place and post that had Breakfast. Did some shopping there.
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Afternoon we started back to Bangalore.