{"id":946,"date":"2013-10-07T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:41:25","slug":"sathuragiri-hills-trekking-virudhunagar-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Sathuragiri Hills Trekking, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo :<\/strong> https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/112046714466411554404\/albums\/5931980034025858497<\/a><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/strong> We went 19 people from Chennai andcoimbatore<\/p>\n

Trekking Date :<\/strong> 5 to 6th Oct 2013 , 2 Days<\/p>\n

Road Map to Reach Sathuragiri:<\/strong> \u00a0Virudhunagar -> Vatthirairuppu(Watrap) -> Thanipaarai (Sathuragiri Base)<\/p>\n

Chennai -> Virudunagar\/Srivilliputhur = Train or Bus<\/p>\n

Virudhunagar\u00a0-35Km-> Vatthirairuppu (Watrap) = Travel in Bus<\/p>\n

Vatthirairuppu (Watrap) -10Km->Thanipaarai(Base to start Trekking)\u00a0= Travel in Share Auto, Mini buses<\/p>\n

Even we can start from Madurai(or) Srivilliputhur<\/a> instead of Virudhunagar to reach Watrap.<\/p>\n

Food :<\/strong> Annadhanam(Free Food) is provided to the Pilgrims all the days. It will be 3 times per day. You will like your house. You will get excellent free food and Tea at evening only.<\/p>\n

Water :<\/strong> Water tank available at top of the mountain. No worry for the water. Even In the week ends you can see shops in trekking route itself.<\/p>\n

Stay at Mountain :<\/strong> No concept of the hotel to stay. You can sleep at temple (Anandavalli Amma temple) (or) Annadhana Madam itself. Don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s standard process here. You will get the place to sleep. But you should carry bedsheet (or) Sleeping bag. It will be more cold in the morning.<\/p>\n

Toilet or bathroom :<\/strong> No standard facility for this. All in open\/hill. Some of the shops providing bathroom facility & charging Rs.20.<\/p>\n

Trekking Type :<\/strong> \u00a0Its Medium complex<\/p>\n

Time Required :<\/strong> Average person will take 3hrs to reach top. But if you stop and walk then maximum 5 hrs.<\/p>\n

About Sathuragiri Hills\u00a0or Chathuragiri :<\/strong> Sathuragiri is the Abode of God specially Shiva. It is otherwise also called as Mahalingam Hill. This is call siddarkal boomi & 18 siddha living her. Main temple will be 1.SundaraMahalingamTemple2.SanthanaMahalingamTemple3. Anandavalli Amma temple<\/p>\n

Thavasi parai (ThavasiCave)\u00a0:<\/strong> \u00a0This will be 1hr treck from Sundara Mahalingam temple. But currently forest department showing restriction to visit this place. But if we stat at 5:30 am, we can visit this place without any issue with any local guide. Local shop people ready to show the way to visit this place as a guide with some money. We discussed with some local people, they are highly discouraging for outside people to visit this cave.<\/p>\n

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Sathuragiri is home to many Siddhas. Below is a list of 18 eminent Siddhas according to South Indian tradition.<\/p>\n

1. Agasthiyar \u00a02. Nandi Devar \u00a03. Thirumoolar \u00a04. Bogar \u00a05. Konkanavar \u00a06. Machamuni \u00a07. Gorakhnathar \u00a08. Sattaimuni \u00a09. Sundaranandar \u00a010. Ramadevar \u00a011. Kudambai \u00a012. Karuvoorar \u00a013. Idaikadar \u00a014. Kamalamuni \u00a015. Valmiki \u00a016. Pathanjali \u00a017. Dhanvanthiri \u00a018. Pambatti<\/p>\n

Trekking Log:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Udhaya Kumar.V , Udhaya.v@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo : https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/112046714466411554404\/albums\/5931980034025858497 Participants: We went 19 people from Chennai andcoimbatore Trekking Date : 5 to 6th Oct 2013 , 2 Days Road Map to Reach Sathuragiri: \u00a0Virudhunagar -> Vatthirairuppu(Watrap) -> Thanipaarai (Sathuragiri Base) Chennai -> Virudunagar\/Srivilliputhur = Train or Bus Virudhunagar\u00a0-35Km-> Vatthirairuppu (Watrap) = Travel in Bus Vatthirairuppu (Watrap) -10Km->Thanipaarai(Base to start Trekking)\u00a0= Travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,165],"tags":[318,317,314,315,316,341],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-tamil-nadu","category-trek","tag-anandavalli-amma","tag-santhana-mahalingam","tag-sathuragiri-hills","tag-sathuragiri-hills-trekking","tag-sundara-mahalingam","tag-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/udhaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}