Kanyakumari - Kashmir Round trip - Final Day 34 - Hogenakal - Salem - Coimbatore

Final Day 34 - Hogenakal - Salem - Coimbatore

Kilometers Driven - 275 KMs

Walking - around 4000 steps

As expected, we couldn't enjoy our yesterday's visit to the Hogenakal falls because of crowd. However, we got up early and went to the falls by 6 AM - Cauvery Snan to complete the trip

It was deserted and we were the only one to take a dip so early there. It felt like a private falls - no crowd. We spent around 40 minutes in the falls - wowww!!!! This would be the ideal time to visit the falls - you can plan it accordingly. 









We came back and had the complimentary breakfast in Hotel Tamilnadu - :)
Our initial plan was to reach Coimbatore via village routes until Sankagiri. However, one of my friend requested to bring a small parcel from Salem. We visited Salem and took the parcel, refilled CNG in Salem Dist Lorry Owners Association IOCL pump - Unit 2 near Periya Seeragapadi, Salem.

We were super excited completing the trip and were talking about all the incidents that happened during the trip :) We stopped near Perundurai for a car wash - an old thatha was running the center. We thought of assisting him, however he never gave the water hose - he was blasting it throughout - lolz. His daughter did the soaping bit and after lot of requests, we got the hose finally. Washed the car, informed IOCL officials to fix the final stop at Bhagyalakshmi Enterprises IOCL pump at Karumathampatti, Coimbatore



We reached Karumathampatti by 1.30 PM, had a big conversation with the IOCL team and proceeded to Race Course for media coverage. Simplicity Coimbatore did a photo & video shoot for around 1 hour and they were super duper busy that they didn't publish this in their online edition yet. They wasted our time and their time as well - I followed up twice and left it because anything that's delayed is equivalent to getting denied - no regrets :)

However, Hindu did the coverage in Metro Plus Coimbatore edition, dated 1st July 2023 and in their e-paper on 30th June 2023. 



Our friends came to Race Course for welcoming us, they did a cake cutting as well :)

Overall, an awesome trip and will be remembered for life :) Many appreciations and wishes from friends and family followed - a proud and cherishing moment indeed :)

Signing off this K2K trip!!!

Luv,
Krishna & Mahadevan
insta - viswanatkr01

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