Wednesday, 27 July 2011

A STRENUOUS TRIP TO SAMANAR PADUGAI – PART-2


An Overview of Madurai from Samanar padugai

Sculptures carved over there :)


 Sabarees was called by his parents and so he couldn make it up to the hills with us. He got down near Apollo hospital signal and we went on to reach the hills. In the down hills there was a beautiful temple Which had Sculptures of marvelous statues in it. Opposite to the temple there was pond which was full of lotus. We saw a Boy Fishing in that pond. Suddenly we wanted that to be photographed by vicky’s fuji film 14mp or bala’s nokia 5mp but unfortunately the zoom couldn go that long in both the devices and we managed to get only a blurred image of the boy who was fishing. We started off walking to the hills on that scorching noon at around 1.35 pm. We were walking with the help of railings on both the sides which aided us by providing its grip to walk on the steep hills .. thanks to the Archaeological department without which we would not have got these railings installed .. the pathway was quite steep and inclined and we found it quite difficult to walk on further despite we continued with sheer perseverance and wit to reach the top of the hill which no one of us have ever visited before. After some 10 minutes of walk we had climbed some 100 steps with the help of those railings… The steps were beautifully carved on the rocks of the hills I wonder how they did that with such an ease… in between we had a short 10 to 15 meters distance which had to be covered without those steps… we found It quite hard infact I found it very difficult to move on those wonky pathway as I was deprived of sleep the previous night and as I was driving the car for some few hours with an ailing leg trouble L alas we reached the halfway mark were we had a stunning visual treat at an height of some 200 meters above land level a very long truck which was travelling in the nearby bypass road seemed as though it was a toy truck which could be very easily held in our palm J finally we reached the destined place for which started off J there was a huge rock which had been protected with a fence made of iron rods behind which you could see some mind blowing artistic sculptures of sages belonging to Jainism … there was a small region beneath those sculptures filled with stagnant water all over which had became the habitat for few frogs and fishes J
 

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