It was
my first trip to Nagercoil. I have been
invited by my in-laws since after marriage.
I had so many excuses to avoid the visit. Finally, we decided to give our present at
Nagercoil and meet my in-laws.
The
bus was passing through the darkness; there were signs of Wind Turbine even in
that gloomy roadside; that indicated we were so near to Nagercoil. We got down at 3.30 am in those so silent,
empty roads. There were some dogs barking
at us if we looked like either the thieves or ghosts.
It was
so tiring after getting up in the morning.
I seemed to have no more rest as we had already listed down the places
to visit. We put up in my wife’s Aunt’s
house. The people in the street started
visiting us one by one and I was introduced to everyone by my wife. It was really a great surprise to me as I
never experienced that warm welcome. At
Metros, we don’t visit people unless they call us. But here people are so kind that they didn’t
expect us to visit them instead they voluntarily visited us and welcomed. That is the true love that still exists in
Semi-urban and villages.
Nagercoil
is situated at southern part of Tamilnadu in India just close to Kaniyakumari,
the other end of India. Earlier the city
was attached to Kerala and it was merged with Tamilnadu in the year 1956. The name Nagercoil means Serpent Temple (Nager
– Serpent, Coil – Temple) situated here, called Nagaraja (Serpent King) Temple. The temple’s the architecture portraits
Kerala style temples. And you can see
many Keralites are still living here and the place is visited by them then and
there. I missed the opportunity to go
inside of this temple as we were so late when the temple was closed that day
and we couldn’t make another visit as we had other places in our list. The temple is dedicated to Snakes and the architecture
and the shrines in the temple are in the form of Snakes. This is one of the important places visited
by many tourists. (Read Part-2 & Part-3)
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Image Credit: wikipedia
Our
list of places includes Kaniyakumari, Suchindram, Sothavalai Beach which I
write later. Just keep visiting.
