2 days trip from bangalore to Yercaud

   Every year we always want to start new year in a nice place with less crowd...For 2012, it was bird sanctuary, for 2013 it was Visakhapatnam beech, for 2014 it was Ooty and for 2015 it was Yercaud. Yes, this time it was a beautiful hill station Yercaud. It was decided just 4 days back and luckily got hotels. 

Here are quick info before I start

Started from: Bangalore (1st Jan 2015)
Gang: With my Lovely Family...Daddy, mummy, my better half, and naughty son Srujan.
Number of Days: 1 night, 2 days
Mode of travel: My new Car...Duster
    Prefer your own drive...Journey is the best part of entire trip....You are going to love it for sure.
Way: Bangalore --> Salem (200KM) --> Yercaud (30KM full Ghat road)
Stay: Sri Durga Residency
   This was ranked top 4 in Trip Adviser. Got an Offer in goibibo where price came down from Rs.3000 to Rs.2000 per suit room. Booked 2 rooms. After going there, We came to know that actual price itself is Rs.2199 only.
   The best part of the hotel is the location. Completely out of city and crowd. Check out the pics below for views from hotel room.

   Quick Tip: Please note Yercaud is just simple hill station with very few attractions. You can say this place as little ooty. Its just a beautiful hill station to just relax.

Here the journey starts....

    This new year there is some special. Its not just Jan 1st but also very auspicious day as it was Vaikunta Ekadhashi... Woke up at 5am and by 6am all packed up and ready for the trip. First went to nearby temple and spent a hour in temple. Sharp 7am started the Journey. Luckily it  started raining very early in the morning and by the time we started it was slightly drizzling. So the climate was awesome. Bangalore itself was looking beautiful.

 Reached Salem by 10:30am. From there you need to take deviation to Yercaud. Now the fun starts with great views and 20 hair pin curves driving to the top of hill. Full of fog with lovely views everywhere.

On the way to Yercaud

 Finally reached Yercaud by 11:30am. You hit the junction of Yercaud where you can see a big lake. From there its hardly 1 km to hotel. The best part of the hotel is the location... You get a nice views from room itself and very silent place out of pollution and crowd. Relaxed in room for some time and started the journey to see the attractions...

Sri Durga Residency...

The plan was to see all places little faraway today and to cover near by places tomorrow. Our first destination was pagoda point. This is one of the view points where u get view of few hills... It was full of fog initially and got cleared soon. Spent some time and started back. 

Watch Tower

View of small Village below the hill

Can you see the small beautiful temple...

Next stop was rose garden...Its utterly waste with no roses at all...

~500m from there you get a Lady's seat. This is again one more view point to see other side of hill...

View from Lady seat view point...

Next stop was Karadiyur View Point. Trip Advisor have rated this as top 3. This is almost 13KM away and little difficult to find. Some how asking many people on the way we reached this place. You see a small board saying "Karadiyur View Point"...Its really small and you cannot see it properly also. There we need to park the car and walk for 1KM. Strangely there were no Visitors. Not even one. We were alone and need to walk little in side the forest and its very scary. Its a small mud path and no guidance on route. Mom and Dad stayed in car. Still Myself and vandana started walking. Had a walk for little distance. We found 3 guys coming return. It was a great releif to see atleast 3 of them in that scariest place. Sadly even before asking, they told not to go. As per them, "Nothing to see there and no body are there.They said they even didn't took single photo". With that bad review we just returned back half way.

Quick Tip: Completely avoid this place. If you have a good gang and want to do some adventure, then its a must place at least for trekking.

From there returned back and went to Shevaroy Temple. This is a small cave temple. Nothing special of temple but a nice location and very narrow road drive.

Shevaroy temple

Next place was Raja Rajeshwari temple. Again again..Small regular temple...

It was almost 4pm and went back to hotel. Took some rest and again went back for boating. But it was 5:30pm and its closed. Hence went to Anna Park just opposite to lake. Again nothing but a small park. We can see this type of parks on every corner of Bangalore.... But Srujan enjoyed some good time in playing with kids play area.

Went back to hotel by 7pm. We have already ordered the food. By 8pm, we got the dinner ready. Hotel have small restaurant where you can pre-order the food. Had dinner and slept off..

Day-2:

 Woke up early in the morning. Took few pics and had breakfast.

Sun rise view from room

View from room

view from room

 Started the drive by 9:30am. Went to Lake and did the boating. They charge around Rs.120 and we got a paddle boat for 30min. Did nice peddling covering full round of lake. Completely tired of peddling.

Boating Point

View from lake

Went to hotel and checked out by 10:30am and started our journey back to Bangalore. Over all it was a nice place.

In Salem did small shopping and ate in Saravana Bhavan and back to Bangalore by 5pm.

At last, all I would like to say is...Do not expect anything from this place. Its just a nice hill station with good views and nice climate. Nothing else....See u in next blog...