A Spiritual Trip to Villupuram, near Pondicherry

Four of us women decided to travel to Pondicherry. Two of them wanted to visit 3 Lakshmi Narasimhar Temples in Villupuram dist. in Tamil Nadu and we too joined them. We had booked our accommodation in Pondicherry. We reached there around 12.30 pm and had our lunch and some rest. Then we decided to visit these three temples on the same day. The are at Parakkal, Poovanasankuppam and Singirikudi.

We hired a taxi and the driver took us first to Parikkal, which was the farthest. We took about 2 hours to reach there.

After our darshan, we rushed to our second destination - Poovarasankuppam. It took almost an hour to reach there.

It was dark by then, and the temple lights were on.

Soon after our darshan there, we left for Singirikudi in Cuddal Dist, but closer to Pondicherry. It was Swati Nakshathra day and there were many people. It was always a busy day on this day, we were told.

Early morning, we headed to Auroville Park to see the sunrise.

The next morning we visited Manalu Vinayakar Temple, which is in the heart of the city of Pondicherry. We opted for special darshan and finished our darshan soon.

After brunch, we left for Bangalore. On the way we got good variety of water melon.

Please watch our video to know more about it.

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