Hi we can have one beach meeting in first week of april to decide logistics. but the ease with which logistics and plans were changed during the easy trip when dropping out happened tells me that any size is viable.
people evincing interest in may vanthiyathevan trip till now.
since its in May why don we plan some simple & well explained trip for our own or siblings' kids? It might kindle the hostorical fire in the kids... if we do this then it will make them to explore themselves and learn history with interest rather than as a boring subject...
Dear Indu thats a great idea...infact I can talk from personal experience My son after seeing the akasalingam and arubalingam inside Bigtemple didnt stop asking questions for the rest of the days....
the following is what swetha has compiled. if people are willing to cut one monday this month end ( may 1 is a tuesday)it can be a comfy 4 day trip and no night travel.
Here is the itinerary she put together. See if it is viable in the first place and if she has covered all the places.
Day 1 : Chennai - ECR - Chidambaram - veeraanam -Kadambur - kudanthai- Thanjavur - Night Halt. Day 2 : Thanjavur - Thiruvaiyaru - pazhuvur -Thirumazhapadi - Thanjavur - Night Halt. Day 3 : Thanjavur - Thiruvarur - Nagappattinam - Vedaranyam - Kodikkarai - Karaikkal - Night Halt Day 4 : Karaikkal - Tharangampadi - Thirukkadaiyur - Thiruvenkadu - Chidambaram - ECR - Chennai
Day 3 is cramped. We should wind up quickly on Day 2 so that we start early on Day 3, complete Thiruvarur and Nagai, take lunch in Nagai and then proceed to Vedaranyam.
chidambaram, tanjore and karaikal we have people to get us good lodging.logistics may not be tough.
swetha seems to be getting more and more eager for the trip.
here's her itineray
Day 1 ( 28-04-07) ====== Leave Chennai at 7 am. Breakfast at Arusuvai Arasu - ECR. Reach Chidambaram Temple at 11.30 am. Chidambaram Temple Darisanam. Lunch at Saradharam. Proceed to Veeranam Eri, Kattumannargudi and Kadambur. Proceed to Thanjavur - overnight halt.
Day 2 ( 29- 4-07) ====== 7 am Breakfast and proceed to Periya Koyil. Lunch at Thanjavur. Start at 3 pm and proceed to Thirumazhapadi temple. Next to Thiruvaiyaru temple. Back to Thanjavur - overnight halt.
Day 3 (30-4-07 monday) ====== 7 am Breakfast and proceed to Thiruvarur temple. Next to Nagappattinam temple. Lunch at Nagappattinam. Proceed to Kodikkarai. Next to Vedaranyam temple. Proceed to Karaikkal - overnight halt.
Day 4 ( 1-5-07) ====== 7 am Breakfast and proceed to Tharangampadi. Next to Thirukkadaiyur temple. Next to Thiruvenkadu temple. Lunch at Sirkazhi/Chidambaram. Proceed to Chennai via ECR.
we are seeing some major chola temples which vanthiya thevan missed.
I would like to know much about this trip - like - who is organising the trip? - is everyone invited ? - if so, how much does it costs ? - to whom I need to pay ?
welcome on board! our trips are a group effort. only accounts is handed over to some soft ware brain like sathish or sivaram. the brain storming is still on. keep observing the group activities and you will know the details venketesh
this was swetha's plan. actually i was hoping we could do it in august. we may not be able to retrace vanthiyathevans steps unless we have four days.kodikarai along with the rest of the places is what icausing the hassle.
alternately a two day tanjore program would be just as good. leave by luxury bus rathimeena on friday night.reach tanjore. hire a vehicle there. 1st day half a day for big temple. afternoon pazhuvur, malapadi and thiruvaiyaru 2nd day thiruvarur nagapattinam and back. or kadambur veeranam kumbakonam and back take the bus to chennai.
in the above 2 day trip which can be fitted any weekend we touch most of the places with chola and ps importance.
Me too not sure about my participation during the 28 to 1st May trip, as I have to attend a function on 30th April, which cannot be avoided. correcta nadu center datela thana function varanum...if it had been 28th or 1st, I could have cut short the trip by one day, but in the middle :)
Hi Sathish think this following itinery though jampacked would work out
friday night- take a rathi meena bus to kumbakonam. we can stay there. (swetha and sps have immense clout in that town. so they can arrange things over the phone too.)
saturday morning- travel north. see kadambur, veeranam eri and the temple beside thath and travel back to kumbakonam for lunch. start for tanjore see the big temple and if possible what temple kalki meant as singala nachiar koil back to kumbakonam and sleep. those not tired can see the artha jamam at kumbeshwarar. we could even have a group discussion on the steps of the maha maham tank.
sunday morning. move thro peralam- thiruvarur- nagai- kodikarai and back by the night. we can leave pazhuvur and mazhapadi which are not directly visited by the charecters.
the advantages for the trip are: only 2 days. can be fitted any weekend suitable to all of us. costs will be slightly more than half of a 4 day trip
If we are not going on may 1st we could all have a meeting after the new year to discuss the date and modalities. is it okay? before that I request sps to analyse the travel plan and decide if it is possible to do in 2 days.
its amazing.. inspite of the arrival of TV.. the old school folks still prefer radio... Chandrasekar's yorker!! Never seen him live but saw BBC footage.. an amazing cricketer. BTW there is always one innings Chepauk regulars cant stop talking about... Where u in the stadium during GRV's 96 against West Indies? My father, his cousins(about 7 in number) were all there. Must have been magic.
> Where u in the stadium during GRV's 96 against West Indies?
Hi rahul I was.and it was the second match i was seeing. earlier one had been a ranji final, bombay vs tamilnadu. i nearly cried when everbody else got out and grv stood like a rock. first innings both teams scored 200 and 210 i think. venkat raghavan was dropped and was 12th man. andy roberts was then the worlds fastest. when india won somebody in B stand lit a fire and i still remember the fire truck racing on the green field.
i think we lost the series 3-2 though we won the madras match. i used to be a great lover of cricket but I quit playing when my class mate in school started playing for india( when he was in school) venketesh
now we have more than one way of accomplishing vanthiyathevans ttrip in two days. more people will opt to join in a 2 day trip
the rathimeena from chidambaram starts at 11.30 pm.
so easy to reach without pressure.
so we can see artha jamam there. chidambaram is the last temple to close by tradition. also rathimeena has busses from nagapattinam and karaikal too in the night. so it wont be a problem.
chidambaram we could try the annamalai university guest house too.
in one brain storming session we can finalise the details.
alternative plan seems more attractive because we never tread the same route twice. but we need to reach kodikarai with a lot of light
big temple wont take much time if we are not going to the upper chambers. an according to sps plan 2 we would be spending the evening only there. and we would faithfully be following the route vanthiyathevan took.
however malapaadi and pazhuvur is off the route and roads are at best mediocre. we could do that with an exclusive tanjore trip.
on day 1 morning we can spend more time in the temples veera naarayana, kadambur and gkc.and see veeranam after 12 noon when temples are closed.
Even now when my father and his cousins get together and chat about cricket the GRV innings is always mentioned. They even remember the headlines in The Hindu the next day.I saw a few GRV innings through the BBC footage, it was amazing. And the fact that he was so humble about his skills speaks volumes about the man. I remember reading an article written about GRV by Sunil Gavaskar, it goes like this "....he reached his century with a now familiar late-cut. He then shyly lifted his bat and doffed his cap in acknowledgement to the crowd and his team-mates. It was a quintessential Indian reaction to fame, shyness..." I read these lines 6 years ago, i have forgotten the magazine i read it in (it was Sportstar i think) but these lines are sort of burned into my memory forever.
I propose April 21st and 22nd ie, around 15 days from now.
If that weekend is not possible then we may have to push the travel date to May 12th and 13th.
So friends, please vote for your convenient date for travel. This will help the outstation members(like me !!) to plan our travel to chennai, well in advance.
the trip itinerary is not yet frozen. the places to be seen are. the plan sps put forward chidambaram to tanjore to kodi to chidambaram has the least number of kilometres and is most efficient. i have only one apprehension. the overnight travel to chidambaram ( which I do once a month) is not all that long. the bus leaves thiruvanmiyur at 11.30 and reaches chidambaram at 4am spoils your sleep both ways.and since its a two day trip we need to be all the more keen and alert.
venketesh
> > Now, shall we nail down the travel date....... > > I propose April 21st and 22nd ie, around 15 days from now. > > If that weekend is not possible then we may have to push the travel > date to May 12th and 13th. > > So friends, please vote for your convenient date for travel. This > will help the outstation members(like me !!) to plan our travel to > chennai, well in advance. > > Anbudan, > Suganya > > --- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, Venkateswaran Kasirajan
Hi Venkatesh, I joined this e-group yesterday, and is it too late now to join this trip you guys are planning? I am placed in bangalore but my hometown is chennai. If the trip is in the second set of dates, in mid May, instead of the end of April (23rd..weekend), I would like to join in. I am attending a wedding in kumbakonam and going on a small trop of temples in and around kumbakonam from 23-may 1. Pl let me know,
I am unable to confirm my participation now, as I would have joined a new company by then. I am not sure whether they will ask us to work on saturdays, so I will confirm it by the end of this month after joining there.
Also, guys coming from Bangalore can directly go to Tanjavur or Chidambaram!!!!.