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This travelogue is about our year end trip to places in down south starting from Chennai to Trichy, Madurai, Pillayarpatti, Sankaran Koil, Tenkasi, Srivalliputhur and Thiruparakundram. We started on Monday (23rd December 2013) morning at 7 AM (All timings in IST :-)) It was a clear day and we began our journey to Madurai via Trichy on our Maruti Ritz Zxi. Me and my family were all enthusiastic for the long drive of about 500 Kms. We decided to have our breakfast at Villupuram on NH 45. I don't exactly remember the name of the restaurant but the food was just okay, we had mini tiffin ( a combination of multiple south indian delicacies like pongal, upma, idli, mini dosa and coffee ). We by passed Trichy @ about 12 noon traversing about 300 Kms.We didn't think of getting into the city rather left towards Madurai.  Crossed Trichy, Enroute to Pillayarpatti - 1 Crossed Trichy, Enroute to Pillayarpatti -2 Enroute to Madurai, about 20 kms from Virarimalai we ...

I am penning down after a long gap, pardon me if they have never met your standards. I had an opportunity to visit Trivandrum, Kerala as a part of the campus placements initiative conducted by our organization. We along with our team were @ College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 12th Sep morning. We were told that the best brains in Kerala originate from here and it wasn't false. The two day activity brought a lot of excellent candidates in front of us with raging individual percentages (some made me envy them :-)), initiatives and actions. They seemed bold and expressive. The whole day was frantically hectic with briefings, assessments, documentation, coordination etc. The day ended @ about 10:15 PM IST.  Thiru Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple, Trivandrum, Kerala From the very day I understood, am going to visit Trivandrum, had a desire to visit the majestic "Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple". There are specific darshan timings starting from 03:30 HRS to 04:45 HRS...