Travel Experiences: sabarimala(ernakulum-kottayam-erumely-pamba-sabarimala-chengannur-trivendrum-ernakulum)

Journey started from Ernakulum Bustand to Kottayam and to Erumely. Erumely is the holy place for both Hindus and Muslims located in kottayam district of kerala, and is on the way to sabarimala. Ayyapas will come to take blessings of VAVAR swamy at Nainar Masjid before visiting Ayyappa Swami(some story behind it)by performing a dance known as Pettathulal. This is done by coloring self, holding wooden bows and arrows. We had food and moved to pamba. In pamba, I kept the things in locker room and had bath in pampa/pamba river and started moving towards Sabarimala by foot which is almost 8kms uphill. Reached top at 2 Am, took a room and a nap till 6 and went for darshan. I separated because of not having irumudi and had normal darshan after two hours of waiting in the line. Took prasadham and moved back downhill which is too tough than going uphill. From pamba, took AC bus to Chengannur Mahadevar Temple, chengannur situated in Allappuzha dist. (Kerala). We are at right time to see the evening pooja, pradakshin with elephants and had peaceful darshan. Temple architecture and pradakshin are spectacular. Reached railway station after that and executed the plan of visiting Padma nabha swami temple in trivendrum(thiruvananthapuram). Just took 4 hours to reach TVM and took a nap in station itself, kept luggage in cloak room in station, Our room is rail bus itself for bath and washroom, I am lucky because of swami's with me, No police objected taking nap there. Some strange timings of darshan in PNS temple, took darshan twice by 6AM itself, the idol of vishnu is mesmirizing and couldnt stop staring at him. Felt very happy and heard lot of stories about travancore kings and the temple with high security. We returned to ernakulum by 7'O clock intercity train where my friends need to get down at Aluva and I am at ERN(ernakulum North). They had a enough time to catch a flight at 4Pm. Sendoff and bye bye to the trip.