Tour to Thiruchendur - Kanyakumari - Padmanabapuram palace - Thiruparupu Falls

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Decided on Dec 1st week and started from bangalore on 20th Dec 2013

Tour route
Bangalore to Thanjavur (picked father in law and mother in law
then start tour to
Thiruchendur 90 % road is good 4 lane
Kanyakumari taken koodankulam (automic power station) bad route fit only for 4x 4)
Padmanabapuram palace almost single road but okay
Thiruparupu Falls single road good

My Ecosport Diesel managed all this terrain really well

Caution Notice: (at thiruparapu falls we have no police security at all lot of chain snatchers and thiefs (seen two instances, so one should leave the place before 5 pm)

Okay let the photos talk from next post

here is the route map

 

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pictures taken near arrupukotai and ecosport taking first rest at thiruchendur, and the windmill on the route to kanyakumari

 

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Reached kanyakumar on christmas night
here is the snaps

 

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second set of snaps from kanyakumari

at thiruchendur two x two beds room accomodation @ 800 each at kani hotel
its decent and good rooms with superb sorounding
at kanyakumari 5 bed room acomodation at Maadhini hotel at 2000 rupees
its close to beach and temple and all those place need to be visited

and my car meets its first accident, while on the way to kanyakumari while negotiating a cyclist on a narrow road
cyclist come close to the car on left side, to avoid him i steared right thinking the car crossed the corner wall (and thats my mistake ) caused this
now my car is in service for fixing all this under insurance (hope my boy will come out good)

and the last one was tsunami remembrance statue

 

[pravin1987]

feel for the accident. nice pictures. by the way what is the mileage that you got?

 

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now come the major part of photos took at padmanabapuram palace and museum

 

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Padmanabapuram palace second set of photos

 

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During the trip my best place was driver seat
with auto a/c set at 22 got a mileage around 17.5 on bad road and on four lane highway 18.5 kmpl with top speed touched 155 kmph and and average speed of around 100 to 110

here is the third set of snaps from padmanabapuram palace

the lamp in the picture is designed in such a way humans can change its direction according to wind direction but even on high wind the lamp wont turn its direction due to a typical kind of lock system

and the next two are granite bed used by king to sleep during summer and one of his chair

 

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where else padmanabapuram palace only

kings durbar hall
vessels in the kitchen
and the old classic excellent arts on the wall

 

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still more stills are there from padmanabapuram palace

kings bed
his mothers bed / room

one of the window still has the red glass

this palace is constructed using wood

 

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yes this too from padmanabapuram palace and few stills from thiruparupu falls

sooner i will convert and upload few more stills which are taken from mobile
refer http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/f...557-your-best-photographs-164.html#post356565 post for few more snaps

 

[msjawahar]

this is fantastic. Nice to see the pictures of the places near by hometown on TAI. Did you visit Puliyoorkurichy (near to palace) ?

 

[anshuman8]

That is a very good travelogue and a bad damage. Hope car is repaired well.

 

[D.J.D.]

A nice travelogue with good photos. Hope you will get back your car soon

 

[AppU]

Excellent Pics MSN

I've heard about the palace, but never been there so far.

Will plan to visit those places this year.

Thanks for Sharing

don't worry about the accident. It is very normal now a days. Hope your car will back to Normal very soon