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Palani to Madhurai to Swamimalai

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Dated : 25th Oct 2015 CREW : Solo I have started at around 2 pm from PALANI and reached Madhurai by 6 PM. Thanks to the TN govt, for the fair bus rates. As I remember, I crossed the DINDUGAL district in the way to Madhurai. While on the way to madhurai, I planned the best one to visit which temple as first. Either it is tirupurakundram or Pazhamudharcholai. I voted for the second one as the temple is going to close by 7 pm. But my time is limit. I am not sure whether I could reach before 7. I kept all my burdens on MURUGAN and prayed thousand times that temple should not close. I get down in Mattudhavani bus stand and enquired for the Pazhamudhar cholai temple. There are no direct buses from the bus stand. Auto walas helped me to get the bus route, surprise compared to Andhra, where they will force you to go in Auto. I took some bus which drops me in mid of another parallel road where leads to azhagar koil, should reach this stop to reach the temple. My clock tic

Specially for Arupadai Veedugal - PALANI

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Dated : 24th jan 2015 Crew : Solo with Murugan blessings. When I visited the first aarupadai veedu, thiruchandur, I thought I should complete the remaining sacred houses of Lord Murugan. The second one, thiruthani was completed in the last visit. Now my plan to visit the remaining houses as early as possible. But I never thought that I would complete this much soon, that too in a single shot. This time, I was very careful and committed myself that I need to visit only temples. No other places were planned. The first place started with the PALANI. I started off from the Chennai to the Palani by train. You could avail the Palani Express from Chennai. It is around 9 hours journey. I have reached the central station on time, and the train is waiting for me on 7th platform. Train has started on time. I didn't speak even a word in train, an old couple and middle aged couple covering the berths. I woke up a little bit soon and train was a little bit too late. I just e