A short weekend getaway to the Princess of hill stations
A couple of people from our institute and I had been planning to go on a trip for a long time. But such early plans seldom get executed. So on July 1st, we made an impromptu plan to visit Madurai for a weekend retreat. It was already 1055 hrs so we had only about 5 minutes to make sure people are on board before booking our tatkal train tickets. Luckily, we secured four tickets to Madurai. Our journey would start on Saturday, July 2nd and we had to be back by Monday, July 4th. We had no idea which places to visit in Madurai. I was aware of nothing but the Meenakshi Sundareswar Temple there. On a quick google search, I found Kodaikanal to be around 120 km from Madurai. So, it was decided that we'd board a bus from Madurai to Kodaikanal as soon as we reached Madurai Junction and return back by the evening. En route to Madurai. Courtesy: Souvik J. We boarded the Nagercoil Express (17235) from the Bengaluru city railway station (SBC) at 1700 hrs on July 2nd. The weather was perfect fo...
