Over again, I thought Yeah, Its time to stick to travelogues and undiscovered routes …. Why not?? And to me they ascend the popular posts ladder a lot swifter than what less interesting yet finely conventional can, thrillingly informative posts incorporate content worth climbing up the “POPULAR POSTS” category…
I never made it to write what’s over Athikadavu… A source that chiefly serves water to half the Coimbatore city, not into close pairing to Siruvani though… Well, Siruvani has an unmatched taste and medicinal quality in the water it sources… Not less, Athikadavu tracks down the water supply from Bhavani River at Mulli that offers herbal toning to water with a bland taste… High up, you’ll also find the UPPER BHAVANI RESERVOIR…
Alright, so something so important that you need to be doing to reach Athikadavu is proper routing because you can’t find good transport; with wildlife and muddy roads potentially blocking you from taking a successful trek or hike uphill… You need to quite understand how routes fluctuate to forms from a Google Map or Google Earth to what you can literally notice when you trek.. Paths could be miles long and that would look unfathomably smaller in a map you check for…Once done with a strategic plan, then it’s your happy turn to start adventuring…
The straight road goes like this… KARAMADAI---VELLIANGADU---ATHIKADAVU---MULLI…
Again a left and right as every route takes it way … Left could move with KEEL MANNAR---UMMATHAMPADY---MULLI---CHAVADIYUR---KOPPANARI and UNNAMED SMALLER SETTLEMENTS---KINNAKORAI(if on another parallel route)--- AGALI ROAD---AGALI… Routes go alongside banks of the Bhavani River… Tell you what this route has the largest elephant frequenting and population in South East Asia…
Right road starts from ATHIKADAVU---MULLI ROAD (right) --- GEDDAI DAM---KEEL KUNDAH--- KUNDAH DAM--- MANJUR---YEDAKADU…
The road from Pilloor dam crosses more than 5 to 6 villages… VELLIANGADU, NELLITHURAI, ODANTHURAI, THEKKAMPATTY, KANDIYUR and many still unidentified with 5 to 7 houses on the hills and farms a few miles away from the hills….
But, anything that’s largely factual can seriously hurt…A BIG YES to a BIG NO to visiting Athikadavu… The true reason behind is Athikadavu becoming the second major water serve area to the city; conditions apply here as well… No much to worry with positive chances that could promote tripping to Pilloor dam and far west… Routes can look like a big circle because every single way plainly connects to one good destination--- “The Western Nilgiris” …
Okay, routing’s now easy… tracking wildlife here needs careful vindication and you can click vividly natural photos on a calmer air… Foothills house snakes and rare insects… elephants, wild boars and stag species inhabit mid hills… Higher altitudes are considerably perilous with an open entrance to diverse wildlife and specially birds... I bet, if an ornithologist gets there with a cam, he won’t get down imaging no lesser than a hundred thousand bird species… There are so many, so lovely and so strange.…
A temple to jot to MUST VISIT is Vanabadrakaliamman temple, Thekkampatty… It’s serene, hilly; on a panorama , it could look explicitly enthralling…The adjacent villages to also visit are Odanthurai and Nellithurai… predominantly dedicated to farming with lesser population around…
Alright, you don’t have to rush for permission from authorities to visit Athikadavu… You’ll personally find all thrills right from the start of the Velliangadu forest area, getting to be a tripping worthwhile… All the best!!!!! Have a substantially planned, neatly traveled and a prudently safe trek…
