Velliangiri Trip on 13th April 2012

We planned velliangiri for a long time but the lord Shiva wishes to come on this day. We started from the office. We booked one Toyota van to accommodate 7 persons. On the day few persons not come as usual giving some reasons.
We( Ramani, Saravanan, kalanidhi,Balaji, & myself) reached Velliangiri at 8AM. There is no hotel , Toilet & bath facilities. So we came back and had the bath in the kalvai near shiva temple ashram
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structed by jaggi vasudev. we had a darshan of shiva linga it is very nice. Filled the stomach with pongal vadai in the ashram hotel.
We came back to velliangiri purchased the sticks for all. Then stated walking at 11am. We have to cross approximately 2000 steep steps. Finishing this we lost all our energy. We emptied our water bottles. There is vellai vinayagar temple. The first mountains is end here. Our clock showed the time 1:00pm. We have to walk in vazhukkuparai. Then first sunnai to be crossed. We refilled all our water bottles and had taken the dry fruits brought by us. We reached here at 2.00pm. After this another sunnai we crossed this at 2.45. We reached the third sunnai at 4.00pm this is siddar sunnai. If we clap & tell “aarokara aarokara” the water comes more from the sunnai. After this we have to step up & step down three hills and reach the oodai. The path for this very muddy. Next we have to walk the last hill this will test our patience in some rocks we have to crawl and cross.no proper path. Most of the route is rocky. Then finally reached the velliangiri top at 7.00pm.had a good darshan of abishkam and returned back at 7.30 pm. reached the bottom at 4.00am in the next day morning. After this we come to the conclusion like this. Easy to tough 1. Ahobilam hill. 2. Saturagiri 3. Parvathamalai – will test your fear factor 4. Velliangiri – you need more energy and stamina.

we perkm 8.50.total km travelled 1200x 8.5=10,200/- total trip cost 14,000/-