Our journey started from Velachery Metro Railway station to catch Yercaud express which headed towards Salem. The train journey was horrible, because there was continuous movement of people from unreserved category. Even when TT and Railway Patrol police insisted them to get down in next station they some how managed themselves to stay comfortably in reserved compartments.We reached Salem at 5.00 Am, A chauffeur (Mahendran) picked us to Yercaud by his car. We reached the town within an hour.
We checked in to the resort named MM resorts which is 3 Km far from town. The way the owner dealt with me over the phone made me to frame him as Grossy guy in my mind. But after talking to him in person i felt it was a wrong perception. He is very straight forward guy named Meyappan. The accommodation was very neat and worth of money. The climate was awesome. I have never been to any place with that much dense fog till that moment. It ventured me for a walk with my family and with my Canon 1200 DSLR camera.
We had a very good breakfast in resort, The food was really tasty. The cook is from Karaikudi. We then hired an auto to explore our misty world. We went to Rose garden which has three other tourist spots (Gents spot , Ladies point and children point) inside the premise. We had to walk around 2Km to reach the other end of the garden. The mist continued all along the way. Our eyes was brimmed with pleasantness in Guava farm. My daughter overwhelmed with joy, she started climbing the tree and also started swinging in the branch . We felt hungry once we reached the exit. We called up the same auto driver and had good lunch in Saravana Bhavan hotel. The food was too good and less spicy too.
We went back to our resort and took small nap. All of us decided to go for a walk till Pakoda point which is just 1.5Km from our resort and started. It was a 40 minutes walk to the view point. The whole area started getting darker once we reached there. There were no street lights on the way. The village was too calm since it was a Christmas eve every one went to town for prayer. We walked back faster to resort and managed to reach there with in 20 minutes safely. We had dinner in the resort and had good sleep.
Next fine morning started with warm sunlight, We hired a taxi to Shevaroyan temple , Maha mehru temple , Raja rajeshwari temple. After lunch we spend evening in various parks in the town and went for boating in lake. Flower pots were arranged in Anna Park for the Flower show that is getting started next day.
We had dinner in the resort and had a good sleep. The third day of our trip was warm. We packed all our bags ready since we need to check out the hotel at 12:00 Noon. We asked the manager to have our bags in some other room because our plan is to leave Yercaud at 4:00 PM. He also agreed upon our request, so we arranged an auto and went for shoppimg. We bought lemon grass oil, Balck panthor oil, Herbal shampoos and spices from various shops. We went to Botanical garden, it was nice but not maintained properly. Then we went to deer park and spent some time over there. Aquarium is horrible.
