Trip to Yercaud

One of our college friend shankar marriage were fixed on June 06 at Vellore and to our good luck it was on Friday! We , a group of 7 (Myself,Jay,lu,leela,Anand alias booch,prabhs, and kumaran) planned a trip to enjoy  at a hill station after attending the marriage since the next two days is a weekend. First the plan was to visit Yelagiri hills which is very nearby to vellore , but with some expert advice the plan been changed to go to "Yercaud" .

After attending the marriage , we packed ourselves to vellore railway station to look for a train that directs to Salem(Yercaud is an hr drive from salem) , but to our misfortune no train been schedule at that time.Naturally the only other option is to look for a bus. we got on to the bus at 10.30 Am..Bus travelling went on and on and finally we reached salem at 4.00 PM (150 odd Kms in 5 hrs thats strange)

Caution:Never catch a bus at the day time in the summer , as the scorching heat and dry winds continuously frustrated and hindered our joy to have fun while travel.

The next plan is to look for an option to reach yercaud. But since there are very limited bus and also they are very crowded, we changed our minds to look for an taxi. We bargained several taxis at the entrance of the busstand , and finally we got a taxi for 600 bucks (ofcourse that is nominal rate !!) 

Its a pleasant drive tophill to yercaud inspite of the morning baffling bus drive. we reached yercaud at 6.00 PM . The driver also arranged a cab for local sight seeing scheduled for next day.

Since we did not reserve any rooms , we went on to enquire each hotel to avail room for a night.Invariable reply from every hotel that no rooms available (Since its a weekend everyrooms were full) . At last we got a simple but decent hotel (Oops ! forgot the hotel name) for 500 Rs /night on a 3 members share/room

We spent the night having fun playing some indoor games , watching tv and had a good sleep with temperature hovering around 20-23 degrees.

Day2:

Morning chill weather forced us  not to move away from the bed. Finally everyone got up at 7.00 refreshed ourselves for local sight seeing in and around yercaud.

We had breakfast at nearby hotel (There are many hotels/mess , so food might not be a problem in yercaud). 

The cabdriver took us firstly to a temple named "Shevarayon temple" .Its a cave temple at the top of the hill.Its very narrow inside the cave that only 3-4 members can stay in at a time . It was very breezy and u can feel the chilliness when ur at this place.

                                                            Mountain view taken from shevarayon temple

                                                                   Our gang posing for Snap 

Next place we proceed on is for view points (Gents view/Ladies view/Children view) . Dont except much in these places , u can just view the salem and adjoining towns view from these places.

There is park near to childrens view point  which would be a nice place . This place would look colourful with lots of flowers blossoming with a wide smile. Nice place though.

                                                                 Hill view from one of the View points

                                                                         Posing for a Snap (No 2)

By this time the clocked had already crossed noon and everyone face showed that we are in hunger. we had our lunch in TTDC hotel , relaxed ourselves in the hotel and proceed on to the last place of our trip

Killiyur Falls

The last place that we proceed on is "Killiyur falls" . This place deserves special mention and its only the adventurous tourist spot in Yercaud.

We need to walk down  3 kilometres by road path  and 1 km steep down hill trekking to reach the falls.. The falls is majestic which falls from a height of 200 metres . One should not miss to visit this place and these short space is not enough to describe its beauty.

                                                                Road path to Reach Falls                                                                                                 (Our gang members  leela,Prabhu,kumaran pulling their nerves )                  

The water is very chill and pure enough . We enjoyed to maximum by having fun in the water and by 5.30 PM we started climbing upwards the hill. Rain started its show while we are climbing up but we nearly reached the top. (If it started few minutes back then it would be very tough for us to climb up as the path is very slippery) Thanks for all ended up well and for the wonderful experience.

                                                                          Way to Killiyur falls

                                                                      Falls at its best

After having great enjoyment we reached salem busstand by 8 PM, took the SETC bus  and reached chennai on Day 3 Morning.

Altogether a perfect weekend trip to a beautiful Hill station.