Skip to main content

Yercaud; all this place needs is a Mr.Darcy and an Edward Rochester to be perfect...

Image
By
A few pictures from my trip to Yercaud, its such a charming little place... you can almost expect to see Jane Austen characters walking about, its that lush and beautiful and sparsely populated. The word Yercaud comes from two tamil words 'Yeri' & 'Kadu' which mean lake and forest and that precisely sums up this hill station. There's a pretty lake and the rest is basically forest with a few coffee/orange estates thrown here and there.
A little stream on the way...
The rocky terrain...
 A quaint little bench under the roots of a tree...
The view from my room.... 
A sleepy little hamlet...
Everywhere you look, you see sights like this....
Pretty flowers swaying on a breeze...
Don't they look delightful...
There were monkeys all over the place, caught this fellow staring into the room... 
A little bridge connecting two rocky ridges...
The swimming pool at the resort, check out those bar stools... pretty neat right, sipping and soaking and taking in mother nature in all her pristine beauty. 
At the Don Bosco Retreat Center, run by the Salesians priests...
The really beautiful church at the Don Bosco Retreat Center...
Inside the church... (the picture doesn't do enough justice), this was one of the best chapels I've been to...
The Sacred Heart Church, where we attended Sunday Mass...
Inside the Sacred Heart Church...
The twinkling lights of Salem seen at night... the whole town glows, its pretty amazing.
Labels:

Comments

S. Susan Deborah said…
A true-blue Austen reader, I see! What will happen if you walk through London's country side. You will be on the seventh heaven!

Nice to see a post after a gap.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

Joy always,
Susan
2:35 PM
Beth Niquette said…
I adore the pictures of the little falls...you're right, it would fit with Mr. Darcy! lol I love Jane Austen.

Thank you for your kind comments about my artwork. Yes, I often put up my lineart, then later on will color the work. Sometimes I sell the original works online.

I use Prismacolor pencils, to add the color and each picture takes me from 4-6 hours to finish.

Thank you for asking about that! Have a wonderful weekend!
1:18 AM
BackStage said…
Nice pictures...its an amazing place and the best part is its really quiet and calm there...
12:52 PM
Karen Xavier said…
Hey Susan, yeah England's countryside must be fabulous indeed!

Beth, can't wait to see that mermaid and the heart picture painted.

Gibsy, yeah.. I hope it stays that way and doesn't turn populated like Ooty or Kodaikanal.
3:10 PM
Salmon Ponross said…
You are an excellent photographer too! pls. visit www.salmonwrites.blogspot
12:11 PM
Jane Hamilton said…
Hey lucky you! Going to Yercaud and all!! hehe! So envious of you right now. Stuck in Ngl wishing I was there, seated on that little stone bench and soaking in the sights and sounds of beautiful Nature!! Your photographs are really good. And I must say, that view of the altar in the church is...Just....Breathtaking! That mural! Gosh! I wonder who created that! Thanks for sharing this with us. I've never been to Yercaud....well, at least now I know what I'm missing! :P
4:51 PM
Karen Xavier said…
Jane, that is exactly how I felt seeing that little church, breathtaking... its so simple yet magnificent. I'm trying to get them (the folks in my colony back in Nagercoil) to make an altar similar to this... but they are old folks, they prefer garish and outdated structures. In case you are wondering, a church is coming up in my colony... and I really hope it is half as pretty as this. Yercaud will wait for you, don't fret... time seems to stand still there.
9:54 PM
Hai Baji said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
12:05 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nice Ad....

By
Wouldn't you say so... Nam and me were in this huge clothing store and we were making fun of all the models on display (there was one of hrithik in which he looked kinda gayish) when we came across this one. Seriously, dark people are more better looking....
112 comments
Read more

Amethyst in Chennai - A Review

By
After Sarangi , we stopped by Amethyst another boutique store at Whites Road (quite close to Express Avenue Mall), Royapettah. This is a cool posh place hidden from the bustling din of the main road, and the entry way itself seems to transport you to another time and place far away from the cacophony of a busy city life. Once you step into this land overflowing with (wild) shrubbery, you'll find a flower shop, a jewellery cum clothing store and a colonial styled coffee hangout place. The entrance... with shrubs on either side. A giant urn among the shrubbery.  A little fountain in the garden... The jewellery and clothing boutique is located upstairs and even though the whole arrangement looks nice and inviting, I couldn't really find anything worth buying here.   An art piece at the store... The clothes seemed drab and messily complicated, like some new age fashion for the artsy / socialite types. It's not something your normal next door perso...
5 comments
Read more

I hope the world doesn't end in 2012, I have a whole lot of books to read...

By
I heard bout Flipkart.com from Anju and that site has changed my life. All the books that I have been searching for since centuries, are now sitting prettily on my book shelf. Landmark is a thing of the past now... in fact Landmark is not what it used to be anymore, they do not seem to have stock on most of the good books. So I am deliriously thankful to the creators of flipkart, I seriously love you guys... continue with your fabulous work. Talking of books, here are a few people who have enriched my life with their recommendations of the written word... My brother Manoj for buying the ' The Partner ' by John Grisham . Now I hadn't heard of Grisham before so the book was just lying there at home. One day I got bored and picked it up, that was the start of my love affair with Grisham and legal thrillers in general. This was the first John Grisham book I read and it was in a word mindblowing. I couldn't set the book down, my heart was racing away with Patrick Laniga...
19 comments
Read more