Kolli Hills

We went to a wedding in Namakkal . We planned earlier after attending the wedding to stay a day more to see Nammakal Anjineyar and opposite to it Lakshmi Narasimhar temple .

The Nammakal Anjineyar is of 28 feet height and is a open temple. The temple has a pillared hall leading to the sanctum.

The Narasimhar temple is a rock cut temple similar to the one of Padalathri Narasimhar near Chengelpet near Chennai.

We stayed in Hotel Vangili . We enquired in the reception what are the places of interest in Namakkal except the 2 temples that we have already planned they said about Kolli hills, we were in dilemma as we could finish the sight seeing of Kolli hills within a day . They said by morning 6am temples are open u visit both the temples and have breakfast by that time the cab arranged for us will be ready .

As per plan our cab came by 9 am and we started in a Santro car from foot hill it has 70 hairpin bends .We saw Arapaleeshwarar temple, namma aruvi , ettukkai Amman temple boating park and botanical gardens .While going our driver stopped at certain places and showed us the view point like Solakadu view point , Seeku parai view point . Our driver said that Kolli hills consists of almost 300 villages within rice coffee vegetables and fruit cultivation are the main source of income to those people .

Aghaya gangai falls we were able to hear the sound of the waterfalls but cudn’t go as we had to get 1000 steps down . Eventhough we get down afterwards climbing part would be tedious so we stood in namma aruvi and took photos .

We had a herb soup and jackfruit with honey it tasted delicious . We bought pepper fruits and honey .

The Mountain is a site of pilgrimage, because of the Arapaleeswarar temple, which is believed to have a secret path to the Shiva temple in Rasipuram. This Shiva temple is said to have been built by Valvil Ori in the 1st or 2nd century when he ruled this area.

The Mountain is named Kolli Malai behind the name of Goddess Ettukkai Amman (Kolli Paavai), the local deity. The mountains have several mythological legends associated with them, and often come across as an eerie place in contemporary tales due to the unexplored and less travelled terrain. Even at some places one can hear the presence of saptha kannigal.

We did boating and visited Botanical garden .

Our driver said many archeological people comes to see the muthumakkal thazhi if we were interested to see it ,
(Muthumakkal thazhi is a big earthen pot in which dead people were buried those days) This is what our driver said to us and he has taken many archeological people to that site .

As we were not much interested about it we dint go , after having late lunch in a mess by 3 pm we returned back to Nammakal by 6pm

Nammakal Anjineyar
Inside Lakshmi Narasimhar temple
On the way to Kolli hills
Solakadu view point
View from seeku parai
Arapaleeshwarar temple
Namma aruvi
Tasting soup and fruits with honey
Children’s park
Botanical garden
View of the lake
Boating

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