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A TRIP TO DIVINE LORD SHIVA TEMPLES Day 1 - Arrival at Chennai airport. Overnight stay. Day 2 - Drive to Chittoor of Andhra Pradesh for 3 hours and 30 minutes. Here is a one of the most famous Shiva temple of South India, Srikalahasteeswara Temple. . This temple features an enormous, ancient gopuram (entrance tower) over the main gate. The tower is 36.5 m (120 ft) high. The entire temple is carved out of the side of a huge stone hill. The temple is dedicated to kalahasteeswara worshipped as Lord Vayu or God of Wind. Return to Chennai. Overnight stay. Day 3 – After breakfast, check out from the hotel and leaving for Pondicherry and kanchipuram enroot. Kanchipuram is just on a distance of 2 hours and 30 minutes drive. Visit to Ekambareswarar Temple at Kanchipuram. It is a huge temple with high rising gopurams dominated the skyline of Kanchipuram the historic capital of Pallav dynasty. It is a temple town is considered to the foremost among the seven prime pilgrimage centres in India. Shiva is the presiding deity here, worshipped as Prithvi Lingam, symbolizing earth – one of the five primordial elements. This ancient temple has been in existence even prior to 600 AD. Later drive to Tiruvannamalai for 125 kilometres, 3 hours drive visit the Annamalaiyar temple situated at Thiruvannamalai is dedicated to Lord Shiva known as Sri Arunachalaswarar – Annamaliyar. It is one of the Panch Bhootha Sthala, the Panch Bhootha are air, water, earth, fire, sky. The main idol represents Agni (fire). .The temple is the result of more than nine centuries of building process. Drive to Pondicherry 98 kilometres for 2 hours drive. Overnight stay.
A TRIP TO DIVINE LORD SHIVA TEMPLES Day 4 – After the breakfast in the morning, drive to Chidambaram for 1 hour to visit the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple. It is a Hindu Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva and one of the five holiest Shiva temples, each representing one of the five natural elements; Chidambaram represents akasha (aether). The temple complex spread over 50 acres in the heart of the city. A unique feature of this temple is the bejewelled image of Nataraja. It depicts the Lord Shiva as the Lord of the dance Bharatanatyam and is one of the few temples where Shiva is represented by an anthropomorphic murthi rather than the classic, anionic Lingam. Later drive to Trichy for 3 hours. It is the dusk when the Aarti is performed in the temple so be a witness of the Aarti, you can also wait there for the Shayan Aarti, the last ritual of the day. This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and one of the Panch Bhooth Sthala and represents water (Neer). So it is also known as “Appu Sthalam” and the Shivalinga (‘Swami’) here is called as ‘Appu Linga’. Even, today you can see water oozing out near the Shivalinga idol in the temple. The goddess of this temple is ‘Akilandeswari’ (‘Amman’). Overnight stay.
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