Some time back, me and my colleagues planned to have a temple tour (it had been long time since our last tour). After deep and detailed discussion, we fixed it to be on Last Friday (1st July 2005). We hired a Tempo Traveller and started from Chennai in the evening at 8:00 P.M.

List of persons joined the tour:

a) Bala
b) Ramanan
c) Hariharan
d) Srinivasa Reddy
e) Sanjay Kumar
f) Vaithi
g) Kriba Santhanam
h) Deena
i) Nakul Srivathsa &
j) Gopi

We had our dinner at Hotel Highway in Madhuraanthagam at 10:00 P.M. The food was palatable. Then, we had 6 hours'journey to Thiru Nallaaru where Lord Saneeswara is located. The place was crowded with around 2.5 lacs masses. Some how, we tried to have the darshan in 2 hours's time.

Break-fast at Hotel Nalaa. Food was not up to the expectation.

Then, we travelled to Suryanar Temple located at Kumbakonam. Speciality of this temple is that it has all the 9 planets located within the temple. The place was damn hot.

Lunch at a hotel in Kumbakonam was not good for me.

Then, we reached Tanjore where we visited Lord Bragatheeswarar Temple . This temple is amazing.

Finally, we reached Sri Rangam where we visted Renganathar Temple . There are two specialities in Srirangam - one is this temple and the other is that it is the home town of our ex-boss Dr. Badri Seshadri.

We reached back to Chennai on Sunday morning at 5:00 A.M.

It proved to be a successful and delightful tour.

Regards
Bala

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