Yercaud - Awesome place to see

Yercaud is a beautiful hill station near Salem ,Tamil Nadu(India). It is at an altitude of 1,500 metres (4,920 feet) from mean sea level. The town gets its name from the lake located at its center - in Tamil "Yeri" means "lake" and "Kaadu" means "forest".
Its not so known hill station ... but that is what makes it great for peace lovers. Its not so commercialized and so there's much of natural and beauty than other hill stations.

we were nearly 20 to 25 guys in a need for fun because its supposed to be annual outing... we guys started at 9 PM from our chennai and we reached salem by 5.30 next morning.From salem frequent buses are available to yercaud at interval of every 1 hour... so its not a problem once you reach salem. we started from salem by 7.. after just 15-20 mins, the real journey started. we were now going uphill in the van and this is really one of best parts i feel when you go to a hill station... the scenery outside was awesome.. yea but for this you must sit on the left side seats of bus, otherwise you will miss most of this part and end up looking only at the mountain walls.I took couple of snapshots with the cellphone cam.

Company itself arranged accomodation and they chosed to saty in Hotel Grand Palace. Nice hotel with nice scenaries. There are very few hotels here, yeah but mostly no problem of accomodation as theres not much of rush over here. But still if you dont want to take any risk then better contact some hotel and make the bookings before you go.

Actually we four guys formed as group and roamed around Yercaud day/night. The climate was awesome and you don't feel hot in any point of day. We (Myself,Sathish,Rakesh and of course saran) didn't join with other group where they went to Boating/Killiyur falls. In first day, we enjoyed a lot and it was awesome being spent time with new folks of my team playing chess/TT/Carrom.

Early next morning we got ready to go. It was a very cold morning and all of us were excited to see the falls. The road to falls was good up to a point. At a specific point there was a board that pointed in a direction that said waterfalls. Instead of looking at the direction clearly we continued on our way.We made our way back up to the point where the board was present and looked at the direction. The board was pointing in a direction where there was no road!!!!!!

Just a small path, enough for one person to tread at a time. We continued down that path only to find out that it was getting steeper. It was also tough to walk on the mud. At a half way point, we all sat down and discussed about it and finally we came to a decision that we would reach the waterfalls no matter what it takes. The path got scarier as there were no barricades around and if slipped, it would mean the end of our lives. Slowly and carefully we down that gruesome path and reached the waterfalls. The water falls was seriously an amazing sight to see.

After the refreshing bath(Saran/sathish/rakesh knows about it very well :):) ) it was time for us to go back. Again, with great difficulty we got back and we were tired as hell after that trek.

Totally,This was a really exciting trip and a great adventure...

Cheers,
Sudhan