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The next day was a day to laze around in the morning.
Got up late…went for swimming…..came back pounding with hunger….and so we looted the breakfast buffet……
after that was some TV watching….some more sleeping and lunch.
At about 4 Pm we started off to the beaches. There are 3 crescent shaped beaches which are connected [...]
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We were again ready after breakfast by 9Am and got into the same Indica that came over the previous day also. It was a shorter drive as we were going to stay within Kerala. Our first stop was at Janardhana Swamy temple. We had climb some steep steps and reach the top. Again [...]
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We had gatered lot of details about Kanyakumari and places to visit from the internet. some of the useful links are http://www.kanyakumari.com/vivekananda.html
http://www.kanyakumari.com/
We reached Kanyakumari by 1:30 and went straight to the steamer place which would take us to the Vivekananda rock. We were charged 10Rs for parking and 20Rs eac for the steamer [...]
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Suchindram is a place where the temple housing Bramha, Vishnu and Shiva together is present. This supposedly called the Sthanumalayan temple.
Alittle bit about the temple. there are supposed to be 2 stories related to this place. Firstly,
Indra got relieved of a curse at the place of the main linga in the temple. The [...]
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We had to leave for Kanyakumari at 9AM. So we were up and ready by 8:15AM. We went in for breakfast which was a buffet. We had breakfast and filled our water bottles. The indica and our pleasantly smiling driver was waiting for us. We hoped in and were on our way to [...]
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We boarded the Island express at 9:30 at Bangalore city station and waited for the train to start moving. The train started slowly at 9:55 PM (although expected departure was 9:45PM)
We were quite tired as we had been to office and then the rushing to the station…..so by 10:30 we were up on [...]
This was our third anniversary and we wanted to have a nice vacation for that. We went through many options…..lots of criteria were in picture……we must be able to take off from office, we must get tickets for the travel, we must get good accommodation, it must be a nice enjoyable place and also it [...]
