MAGIC IN THE HORIZON – KANYAKUMARI - FROM MY TRAVEL DAIRY

This series is in continuation to my travel series which I had to give a break in between. I hope few of you great steemiens may spare some time to gave me a fair assessment through the comments which would be helpful in following episodes.

I am starting from the southern most part of Indian continent from where you could see sunrise and sunset from the same place.

The southern tip of Indian soil, the only indian beach from where sunset and sunrise can be witnessed like a solo movie, a rare place where the creator of the universe has allotted a space for the three great oceans to meet together known as Triveni Sangamam, a place with a huge rock in the sea close to the shore that has made into the history book of its own as Vivekananda Rock Memorial, the bottom most part in the map of India, and finally the automatic choice of national political parties for creating an all India effective slogan “Kanyakumari se kashmir Tak”, and descriptions are many for the coastal town of in the state of TamilNadu.

A trip to this place that have easy access from Trivandrum, many parts of Tamilnadu as it is the final destination of NH from Kashmir, would always remain memorable and worthy for the variety of things on offer by this small piece of land. For anyone who could wander just one kilometer along the beach at a time interval of 12 hours at both ends of the night would be able to witness magic in the form of sunrise and sunset, a marvelous sight to behold taking place at far away where the sea and sky seems to be melt together.

Though the place is a perfect choice for a weekend trip the advantage of other days is less crowd and more comfort. So I choose a week day to experience this small place with some amazing locations and landed in a late evening. The time was perfect to book a room, get refreshed before proceeding to explore whatever places could visit with the available time before running to the beach where sun starts its journey down the sea can be witnessed clearly and the perfect start to it was a visit to the temple which is known by the name Kanyakumari itself.

TEMPLE VIEWED FROM OUTSIDE

The temple is believed to be where Sati Devi’s spine area fell down while Lord Shiva was carrying her lifeless body and one of the 51 Shakti peetha across India built on the seashore with waves splashes on the rock it stands as it can be seen from outside. The temple is believed to be around 3000 years old and the deity is young Kumari Kanya from which the name of the place is made.

GANDHI MANDAPAM

Close to the temple, the next attraction of any tourist is Gandhi Mandapam built in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Kanyakumari and also because one part of his ashes after his demise has been immersed in the sea water here and the location of the memorial is the place where the urn were kept for the public to pay the last homage.

WAVES HITTING THE ROCK

As I came out from the memorial, it was almost time for sunset, even on a week day there was lot of people rushing to find a perfect spot along the long stretch of beach for watching that event which most likely going to be an once in a life time chance for many.

STRETCH OF ROAD TOWARDS SUNSET POINT

Looking ahead there seems to be no end to the long seashore to make a halt and stay there expecting a memorable view, so the best option was to utilize the view Tower built for the same purpose, a building with a circular ramp having 7-8 levels from where people can also able to watch the clear blue seawater, Vivekananda Rock, Thiruvalluvar statue, Temple etc.

To be continued with sunset and Sunrise in the next part

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