Holidays @ Anamalai

We came back to Pondy from Chennai on 15th May. On 17th Morning we started to Anamalai, as Appa's Resort Consultancy is going on in the foot hills of Top Slip. Our Company Guest house is in Anamalai. Its is a rented Guest House built in the middle of the Coconut Grooves & Orchards. The Orchard consists of Jack fruit Trees, Goose Berry Trees, Mango Trees, Plantain Trees, Jamun Trees ( Naaval Pazham), Chickoo Trees and so many other trees. Our guest house is nearly 100 feet from the main gate.  Its a farm house and has so many kinds of birds like different coloured love birds, hens, ducks, Chinese Hens, Chinese Cocks, Parrots, Pigeons, Turkeys, Speaking Colourful Parakeet, number of dogs, cows, buffaloes and so many colourful flowers. I like this farm guest house very much.

Guest House at Anamalai

Appa has to look after his resort work the next day, we both accompanied him.

Shady Way to the Site from the Guest House

I love that place, as its surrounded by mountains and full of greens.  Lovely place to live.... people there are so kind enough to move with & especially an elderly couple who look after the place is really very innocent & lovable. Whenever we go there, they immediately offer us farm fresh tender coconut, both raw & ripe mangoes, gooseberries etc. That thatha & patti is wow... where ever they are & whatever they do, they come to us & speak to us very well. Always at their best. Thanks watchman thatha & patti for all that you have done for us.

Resort Site - Foot Hills of Top Slip

Watchman Thatha Paatti

Gooseberries at the site

After the site work, we went to Monkey falls & Aliyar dam, as its very near by, just a 15 minutes drive. It was really wonderful. Appa & I went up the stairs to the dam & saw amma through binocular, who is sitting down in the park. Spent some time there.

From the dam

Later we headed to Pollachi to see Kalakalappu@Masala Cafe at Shanti Theatre. We dropped in Gowri Krishna pizza shop & had our lunch there. Interiors & ambience was too good there. We loved to spend sometime there but the film timings made us to eat fast. The movie was good.... as of story... nothing was there.... but a nice comedy film....

After the show, we headed to our guest house and had our evening tea in a tea shop just opposite to our guest house. This is a road side tea shop ( serves a good tea) under a big shady tamarind tree, with few moulded chairs & stools to sit. One man named Senthil is running that shop. Apart from tea & coffee, there are cookies, buns, small sweet buns, athirasam ( a sweet dish), chocolates etc. Normally by evening 5.30pm or 6.00pm, he finishes tea or coffee and used to clean the vessels. We enjoyed this tea time every day.

At nights, we used to eat in a small eat out, called Hotel Arun. The food will be too good and won't do any harm. Normally Amma used to cook, whenever we go for tours. But this time, appa told her not to bring any vessels or cooking items.

The next day morning, 19th May, we went to appa's site. After finishing his work there we went to Kovai Kuttralam in Coimbatore. We have done a 5Km Trekking and reached the falls. Wonderful Experience. Very less water in the falls. We should not put any plastic bags or snack bags in the forest area during trekking. On our way back, we bought farm fresh grapes from the grape farmer association's outlet. The grapes taste really sweet & superb.

We, then went to MY PLACE Restaurant, Coimbatore, for Lunch. It is one of the famous restaurants in CBE. The food was excellent and the service, the ambience, the crowd also were really very good. It is situated near the Lakshmi Mill Signal in Paappanaicken Palayam. AN EXCELLENT RESTAURANT....

We went to our family friend Abdulla Uncle's house, in Anamalai itself, for breakfast and lunch, on 20th May. They are wonderful people. Abdulla uncle, his mom, dad, his wife Sakeena Aunty, his sister & her family, his cousins were all lovable people. His sister's daughter Shalini, is of my age & class. She is so friendly & moves very well. We had a hearty meal.

We planned to start to Alleppey next morning, 21st May.