A trip to Pollachi
Our trip to Pollachi was not all that uneventful, despite our bad choice of season. Our challenges started right from planning. Thanks to Raja and Praveena, they did intense googling and meticulous inquiry over phone about places to be visited. They had also booked a room in Hotel Vinayaka for Saturday morning, which was required to get ready to set out on our tour the first day we arrived in at Pollachi (on 23-Mar-2013). We were fortunate that the hotel did not demand extra payment though we were four of us using a single room. I wonder if the hotel would do a similar favour to anyone else in future. Kannan was the first one to reach Pollachi and to the hotel. He had come from Chennai by bus. Raja, Praveena and myself went from Bangalore. I had a ticket in Kurla express till Coimbatore and I utilized it as a cost saving measure, else I would have gone with the other two. I got down at Tiruppur Junction at around 5:40 am and boarded a government mofussil bus to Pollachi at 6:00 p