My Trip to India - Part 2

Tiruppur, Thanjavur, Madurai and Thekkady

Jul 04, 2024

A few days later we had to go to Tiruppur to see Aatha (grandma) and Thatha (grandpa). They are my grandparents. It was a 5-hour drive from Banglore to Tiruppur. And I just remembered that my dad went on his yoga retreat for 4 days. And the next day, which is tomorrow, we will get appa and go back to aatha and thatha’s house. We just reached aatha and thatha’s house. Goodnight.

Today we are going to pick up my dad from his yoga retreat. I had to wear a dress. My mom said it is kind of like a temple where my dad is. There is a god named Adhi Yogi. Adhi Yogi taught yoga to teachers and the teachers taught to other teachers and taught other teachers and those teachers taught yoga to my dad. When we went there my dad was standing in front of us. And my dad said there would be a light show. Here let me show you the light show.

In Tiruppur my Thatha has a thotham (big garden). He has a mango tree in the thotham. He went and picked a few mangos. I ate at least three mangos, and they were so delicious. Here is me eating mangos.

In Tiruppur we saw a lot of street dogs. Here is a street dog that we saw when were on the street walking. I felt sad for the dogs out on the street because they have no food and some of them got hurt. And I told my Appa to give them some waste food that we did not eat from our meals.

We will be going to Thanjavur, Madurai, and Thekkady as a family trip. And tomorrow we are going to pick up my cousins in a big van. It was like the Wayanad van but bigger, it had seventeen seats.

I threw up two times on the way to Thanjavur. After we reached the five-star hotel in Thanjavur and refreshed ourselves we went to the Raja Raja Cholan temple. This temple was built a thousand years ago. And at that time there was no cement. So they built it without cement and yet it is still standing in its place. At this temple, we prayed to Lingam. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recognized the Raja Raja temple as a historical site. This is a picture of me and my cousins and my family and my grandparents at the Raja Raja Cholan temple.

The next day we left to go to Madurai. And this time my parents gave me medicine to not throw up. We were so close to the hotel we went to a temple. Its name was Meenakshi Amman temple. At the temple, we prayed to a goddess. The goddess name was Meenakshi Amman. We got back in the car and headed to the hotel. When we arrived there it was amazing, and it was a Marriott hotel. We ate dinner and went to sleep. While we were in the hotel my appa, amma, and older cousins went to explore Maudurai and eat food at a restaurant.

In Madurai, the main thing to go there was Krishma’s puberty function but it was today night so we still had time in the morning to go to the swimming pool at the hotel. Here is a video of us in the swimming pool.

Tonight we had to go to Krishma’s puberty function. It was boring for me but not for Surya, his friend Taarush was there. They played pretty well. Here is a picture of me, my cousins, my family, and my grandparents standing with Krishma, her parents, and her brother, Taarush.

The next day we left to go to Thekkady. The hotel's name was Spice Village. And they were true to the name of the hotel, there were a lot of spices in the village. Okay, today we woke up early to go on a boat ride.

And on the same day, we went on an elephant. After riding the elephant we got down from the elephants we saw the elephants lift trees with their trunks and we fed the elephants a few bananas.

My appa said we were going on a jungle safari but when we arrived there it looked like a mountain. On the way back to the hotel, we stopped by a tea garden. We got down and took pictures in the tea garden. Now you may think that a tea garden is full of tea, but actually, it has the stuff to make tea. I think they are herbs. Here is a picture of me and my family standing in the tea garden.