The recently excavated Sivan Kovil :
Muthumakkal Thaazhi :
If you have never heard of the term "Muthumakkal Thaazhi", you can have a look at Dolmen
If there is one picture that will define Kollimalai, the below one will be it.
Info on Kollimalai :
And finally a group Photo.
Thanks to sarpalan, his appa and his family for all that they did to make this trek a reality.
Kollimalai Trek - Day 1
Place : Kollimalai
People : Mega, Saravanan, Saravanan appa, Srini, Satish, Vijay, Babu, Rakesh, Natarajan, Karthick, Prem, Kamesh.
Date : 18,19 July 2009
If you havent seen yet, See my previous post on Kollimalai Trip at Kollimalai Trip
Sarpalan, my ex teammate and YHAI trekmate suddenly organised a trek to kollimalai and sent tickets to join, which we all promptly did.
Day 1:
The plan was to trek from Periyasaami Kovil at the base of Kollimalai and to reach the top of Kollimalai.
After eating our breakfast and packing the lunch, we started the climb at 10.30 A.M.
The place where we started to climb.
The White patch in the middle is the path, we will climb.
The path we took is what has been created by water flowing down the mountains.
Saravanan had given 3 options for us to choose at the beginning.
* Take the road
* Take the easy trek
* Take the difficult trek.
All of us unanimously chose the difficult trek not knowing what we had in front of us.
This was supposed to be the place where the easy path and difficult path diverged or as everyone else put , the Junction of "Poo Paathai" and "Singa Paathai"
At some places the gap was so big.
Nearly halfway
One of the toughest places to climb :
This place was one of the difficult places to climb and which was completed by many only with help from the top.
The plains :
The white patch is the path in which we came up
Finally we were near to the top .
The guides that accompanied us. They gave us good company and from the beginning they maintained that the time remaining to reach the top was "just 10 mins". They never changed their stance. :-)
After a long trek we reached a water source at 5.00 PM and had our lunch. Meanwhile at the beginning of the climb Babu had a cramp and wasnt able to walk properly. Hence he,Saravanan and a guide Ravi, took a different route. We had no information of them for hours and we were left wondering when they would be able to reach the top. Finally they reached safely with good help from the guide.
People : Mega, Saravanan, Saravanan appa, Srini, Satish, Vijay, Babu, Rakesh, Natarajan, Karthick, Prem, Kamesh.
Date : 18,19 July 2009
If you havent seen yet, See my previous post on Kollimalai Trip at Kollimalai Trip
Sarpalan, my ex teammate and YHAI trekmate suddenly organised a trek to kollimalai and sent tickets to join, which we all promptly did.
Day 1:
The plan was to trek from Periyasaami Kovil at the base of Kollimalai and to reach the top of Kollimalai.
After eating our breakfast and packing the lunch, we started the climb at 10.30 A.M.
The place where we started to climb.
The White patch in the middle is the path, we will climb.
The path we took is what has been created by water flowing down the mountains.
Saravanan had given 3 options for us to choose at the beginning.
* Take the road
* Take the easy trek
* Take the difficult trek.
All of us unanimously chose the difficult trek not knowing what we had in front of us.
This was supposed to be the place where the easy path and difficult path diverged or as everyone else put , the Junction of "Poo Paathai" and "Singa Paathai"
At some places the gap was so big.
Nearly halfway
One of the toughest places to climb :
This place was one of the difficult places to climb and which was completed by many only with help from the top.
The plains :
The white patch is the path in which we came up
Finally we were near to the top .
The guides that accompanied us. They gave us good company and from the beginning they maintained that the time remaining to reach the top was "just 10 mins". They never changed their stance. :-)
After a long trek we reached a water source at 5.00 PM and had our lunch. Meanwhile at the beginning of the climb Babu had a cramp and wasnt able to walk properly. Hence he,Saravanan and a guide Ravi, took a different route. We had no information of them for hours and we were left wondering when they would be able to reach the top. Finally they reached safely with good help from the guide.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Kolli Malai Trip
Place : Namakkal and Kollimalai
Date : 8 and 9 , Sep 2007
When the time for a Quarterly Team outing grew near, Sarpalan was quick to invite all of us over to his hometown Namakkal and hence thereby visiting Kollimalai also.
So the Team outing was arranged to be Kollimalai.
Places we had visited :
1. Namakkal Anjaneyar Kovil
2. Arapaleeswarar Kovil
3. Kollimalai Waterfalls
4. Kolli Paavai Kovil or Ettu Kai Amman Kovil
Namakkal Anjaneyar Kovil
Though I had previously crossed this temple during my college days, I hwas not able to visit it that time.
A Candid Photo of myself inside the temple taken by my friend Shivanand.
After finishing with the Namakkal Anjaneyar Temple our next stop was Kollimalai.
Places to be seen at Kollimalai :
These are the places to be seen at Kollimalai. I would say this is an exhaustive list. Make sure that you visit atleast a couple of these place when you are in kollimalai.
Trip Upward :
The trip to the bottom of the Kolli malai was scenic and straight out of a bharathiraja movie.
The climb up the hill was a trip into nature full of awesome sceneries.
Video of a Hairpin bend
Kollimalai boasts of having 70 hairpin bends and in one of them many of Large vehicles have no option but to take Reverse gear to turn. See yourself in the below video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7UrpUCIxKx4
Seeku Paarai or Suicide Point :
This is one of the Viewpoints that we had time to visit and a good place to enjoy nature.
Semmedu :
This, I believe is the biggest village in Kollimalai and this is where we stayed for the night.
Morning walk :
Couple of us decided to an impromptu morning walk and the result was these awesome clicks.
Pepper plant.
Boating :
Kollimalai now boasts of an artificial Boating place and the boating was pleasant with nobody to disturb us.
Arapaleeswarar Kovil:
The Arapaleeswarar Kovil is a old temple situated near the waterfalls.
It is a "Paadal Petra Sthalam" also.
The temple has a good number of Tamil inscriptions. I am not sure whether someone has taken the effort to decipher these inscriptions.
Kolli malai Waterfalls :
The Waterfalls is the highlight of Kollimalai and you wont regret it after the steep climbdown of some 1000 odd steps.
At The Beginning of the Path to Waterfalls
The main Waterfalls
Video of the waterfalls
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC2PbRiNWq8
The climb up to the starting point after the bath in the waterfalls is on the extreme side of trekking and can be quite daunting for anyone who is not a frequent trekker.
Resting halfway during the climb up of the waterfalls.
Kolli Paavai Kovil :
The Kolli Paavai Kovil is the most famous temple, haviing a Pazhamozhi to its fame.
The saying goes that "Kolli Paavai sirithe Kolvaal",roughly translating to (kolliPaavai will kill by tempting with her laughter)
The Temple:
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