Running to Madurai

Bridge between India and Lanka

 We can get autorickshaws for visiting Rameshwar city right from outside the Ramnathswamy temple. They charge us Rs. 500 and show all the 10 famous spots. I don’t remember all the names and locations but Ill tell you the main ones-1^st was a temple, from where we can see the complete Rameshwar, it was situated well above ground level. 

Train Bridge between mainland India and Rameshwaram

Next we visited the Ramsetu, although we cannot exactly see the bridge, but the point from where it was actually started.  Its said that in 2006 Tsunami, the bridge was submerged under water and not only the bridge but one complete village. As per todays date, we can see people walking in ocean (on submerged bridge) for atleast 2-3 kms which shows existense of bridge from India to Sri Lanka. We can even purchase floating stones from there by paying Rs. 150-200.

Dr. Kalam's House

There were small temples and lakes in between and also Thakurjis Baithak ji. Then there was a Panchmukhi Hanuman temple and the most interesting “Kalams House”, Indias X President used to live in Rameshwaram and has modified 1^st floor of his house into a museum. It houses all the prestigious awards earned by the Missile Man. Its actually an inspiration source for todays youth and the only museum in India without an entry fee.  

It took us around 2 hrs to complete the spots, tour was wrapped up by 11 o clock in morning. Hence we started running to Madurai-our next destination. Previously our plan was to spend a day in Rameshwaram and next in Madurai, and we were able to close the show in a single day. I advised Baba that we can visit Kanyakumari and come back instead of going Madurai, but he didn’t had the thing to move to a new place and return. So we just visited Madurai.

We were there by 3 o clock but at that time Meenakshi Temple was closed so we visited a fort nearby, in the meantime we rescheduled our bus for the same day-thanks to internet and mobile, since it was useless to do timepass in madurai. Next we visited another big temple-Meenakshi and then too bus station. In short we visited 2 holy places in a single day and returned back to Chennai.