So let’s head further deep into the town with more scenic, beautiful, less popular areas… If you travel towards Mettupalayam, you’ll find a road on the left leading to Karamadai, with an inclined west unveiling Velliangadu which finds it way side from thriving vegetation and entirely engulfing hill range.. Oh…The roads are narrower and a lot riskier than what you could probably imagine… Upon the hills, there are several smaller roads that could take you to the tribal hamlets that reside over the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border….Koppanari is a tribal village that houses around ten to fifteen houses to where you can travel from Velliangadu or a small diversion that comes from Palamalai… its quite an unsafe road to drive or trek further… But yes, if you’re successful, you’ll reach Koppanari and other streams which on crossing could you take you to Anaikatti or Sholayur…
With smarter simplification, things could be best understood… You can take roads that come from Velliangadu to Mulli where you’ll stop by a farm and then tribal villages… Moving a little left forested area covers the land…Alright lets move straight to find things on a wider aspect… it almost looks like a highway yet you shouldn’t expect roads to be broad with good traffic … Its restricted with large wild animal movement with safety time tagged well before 5:00 pm in the evening…The Mulli road can also lead to Geddai dam that is on the right with roads to Kundha and Athikadavu Main supplying water to the north western areas of Coimbatore including within limits of Mettupalayam and Anaikatti… There’s a place called Keel Mannar with very less people around and a lot of wildlife… the place always has cool breeze around and mountains cause good rain here and there if you’re on a trek inside the forest… So there it cuts on a diversion that leads to Tholampalayam village… It’s very small and largely tribal with very less people coming down to city for education…From Deep inside; it’s not easy to travel to the mainland…… Children on education, from the areas of Tholampalayam have a life time problem… Once you check the map out you’ll know how bad they suffer… From Tholampalayam, all they need to do is travel towards Anaikatti for schooling… Routes won’t map from Tholampalayam to Anaikatti, instead they run straight to Sholayur, Kerala, with a further redirection to the Tamil nadu state for Anaikatti… Where routing this isn’t all that simpler because a stream runs across the states with children waiting longer hours for just a crossing... With significantly consuming a lot of time in travel, kids eventually lose interest to study… A newspaper today came out with information that kids start early to 6:00 am to go to school… Seems they also encounter elephants and wolves round their village… Endangering lives, parents don’t allow children to pursue education... Sources say that construction is on the move for the roads directing to Anaikatti which cuts the movement to Kerala…
Something that would stop you near Tholampalayam could be the “Palamalai Ranganathar temple"… The temple could look quite unvisited and deserted… Yeah its true… Well, unlike other hill temples it’s restricted because you wont find any human settlements just beyond a place called Kovanur... it’s the one last village you can see holding habitation…Once you move afar the spot, bet what it is damn scary… With cooler yet noisy winds you’ll cry your eyes out…. And in monsoons mist could be over hills and you’ll hear the winds telling you “ Aren’t you getting ready for the rain?” With stronger winds warning you over and over again on passing bends… Once you move to the temple, visit it; come back on time cos it can’t be all sweet… You’ll have bad times too… come downhill on time; you’re not safe until then… Plan your trip with a lot of care and liberal doses of safety…
