One of our friend told parvathamali is the toughest & good one.We are
dreaming a trip of paravathamalai for the past 3 months. Finally decided our trip fixed on April 14th 2009 a holiday for the Tamil New Year.We all started from our office around 1.30 pm after finishing our lunch.
Murthy booked the Van from Sakthi travels with a best discount rate Rs7.50 per KM.
We reached Avadi to pickup another two friends Saravanan & Thiyagaran.
From there we differed our plan of trekking in the morning to Night.
So both Saravanan & Thiyagarajan collected 3 torch lights from their neighbors.
We started from their 3.30Pm and reached
So both Saravanan & Thiyagarajan collected 3 torch lights from their neighbors.
We started from their 3.30Pm and reached
Rathinakiri Temple. A small hillock of 120 steps. We had a good darshan of murugan. We are fortune to have a darshan of Rathinagiri Tavatiru Balamurugan Adimai Swamigal.
We came down had a small refreshment, and then started to Polur.we went via vellore, Arni and reached Polur. We had our dinner in polur and packed our bags with water, bread, chocolates & biscuits. From here it will be around 20km we reached the Kaladi.
This is the place below the paravathamalai upto this place we can go by van.
From here we started for paravathamalai at 9.30PM. we kept our bags in the van taken only the snacks & water with us. we went to veerabadra swami & Renukambal temple.
It is the plain road to reach the bottom of the parvathamali it is around 2KM.
From there it is around 1300 steps. It will take 1 hour. In this place few shops are there.
Next 2 hrs the road is rocky & muddy. We emptied our water bottles. Next is the KADAPARAI PATH in this we walked for 1 hr to reach the top of paravathamalai.
This is the toughest path. Only Kadaparai is placed in the stones to hold our selves.
In this path we have to cross five steep ladders and two bridges.
We reached at 2AM .The temple here is very small no archaks here. So we can do abishekas & arthi for the Lord SHIVA. We touched the linga rupa put water & vibhuthi. The wind is very fast & cool. It cools our body. Our energies are recharged by the shiva dharshan.
We walked down another 41/2 hrs to reach the bottom.
This time our energies are totally lost due to the non availability of water.
In few places we all skid. We crawled few places. Finally we came down at 7AM next day.
We came down had a small refreshment, and then started to Polur.we went via vellore, Arni and reached Polur. We had our dinner in polur and packed our bags with water, bread, chocolates & biscuits. From here it will be around 20km we reached the Kaladi.
This is the place below the paravathamalai upto this place we can go by van.
From here we started for paravathamalai at 9.30PM. we kept our bags in the van taken only the snacks & water with us. we went to veerabadra swami & Renukambal temple.
It is the plain road to reach the bottom of the parvathamali it is around 2KM.
From there it is around 1300 steps. It will take 1 hour. In this place few shops are there.
Next 2 hrs the road is rocky & muddy. We emptied our water bottles. Next is the KADAPARAI PATH in this we walked for 1 hr to reach the top of paravathamalai.
This is the toughest path. Only Kadaparai is placed in the stones to hold our selves.
In this path we have to cross five steep ladders and two bridges.
We reached at 2AM .The temple here is very small no archaks here. So we can do abishekas & arthi for the Lord SHIVA. We touched the linga rupa put water & vibhuthi. The wind is very fast & cool. It cools our body. Our energies are recharged by the shiva dharshan.
We walked down another 41/2 hrs to reach the bottom.
This time our energies are totally lost due to the non availability of water.
In few places we all skid. We crawled few places. Finally we came down at 7AM next day.
