Sabarimalai

Sabarimalai is the holy place for the Hindu. This divine is located in Western Ghats ranges held in Pathanamthitta district in the state Kerala. Every year not less than fifty million devotees are visiting this place to get the dharsan of Lord Aiyyappa. This is the place where God Aiyyappa sat for meditation after killing Mahsi. 

Ayyappan temple is situated in between eighteen hills. This temple placed at the top of the hill of about 468 m above the ocean level. The temple is surrounded by mountains and dense forests. Beyond this main temple there are some other temples in this region are Nilackal, Kalaketi, and Karimala, remnants of old temples survive to this day on remaining hills.

There are some rules are straightly followed that women between the age ten to fifty are not allowed inside the temple. But men of all ages are allowed to can able have a dharsan of Lord Aiyyappa. The temple is opened in the time of November to December and Makara Sankranthi in January, Vishu in April and first 6 days of every Malayalam month.  

Devotees of Lord Aiyyappa used to follow the penance for forty one days and they finish the penance at Aiyyappan temple. Most of the devotees are following the path from Erumely, Aludha River, Karivilam thodu, Cheriyanavattom, Valliyanavattom and finally reach Pamba River. After that they have to get into Ganesh bettam in neeleemala. After that all the devotees needs to walk for nine kilometers from Neelimala to reach Sabarimala.

Nowadays, all the facilities are afforded to the visitors by opening shops and medical facilities. This shrine is under the control of Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB). The income of Sabarimala is not less than sixty crores. The prasatham afforded to the devotees are Aravana prasatham and Appam. 

Keywords: sabarimala, holy place, Kerala state, Aiyyappa

Thekkady

Thekkady is located in the district of Kerala in Idukki of the Periyar national Park. This place comes under the list of the best tourist spots in the eminent district of Kerala in India. This place sited at the entrance of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu that named as Kumily, which situated 160 miles from Trivandrum. 

The renowned is illustrious for its thick evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous forests and savanna grass lands. It seems to be the safe place for the herds of elephants, sambar, tigers, gaur, lion-tailed Macaques and Nilgiri Langurs. Some of the tourist spots in this place are mentioned below.

Periyar National Park:

This park covered the region of about seven fifty kilometers that includes a deep evergreen forests. This place has been highlighted for tigers reserve in the year 1978. This located near the Mullaiperiyar Dam, which build across the Periyar River. 

Murikkady:

This place is famous for coffee plantations and spice cultivation that located nearly about five kilometers fro Thekkady.

Boating in Thekkady:

It is the best and foremost activity in Thekkady Lake. One can travel through boats that are available at competitive price. While roaming around the boat one can able to see the animals, which are bathing, resting and drinking water in this lake. The boats are operated by the KTDC along with the Forest Departments. Per day, there are five trips that comprise two hours to roam around the lake with all safety measures. 

Keywords: Kerala state, best tourist spot, boating, best activity

Padmanabhaswamy temple

Shree Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu holy place keen to Lord Vishnu located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The place of pilgrimage is at present run by a trust headed by the royal family of Travancore. The temple is named under the list of 108 Divya Desams, which prime centers of worship of the divinity in Vaishnavism. The temple is constructed in the Dravidian manner of structural design, which glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the Tamil prose tenet of Tamil Alvar saints.

The shrine is an imitation of the eminent Sri Adikesavaperumal Temple at Thiruvattar. Sri Padmanabhaswamy sanctuary affords its name to Kerala’s state capital Thiruvananthapuram in the following manner ‘Thiru’ ‘Anantha’ ‘Puram’ means Sacred Abode of Lord Anantha Padmanabha.  This temple is named under the wealthiest temple in India. 

Padmanabhaswamy is preserved as the "Anantha-sayanam" pose at this historic temple. The major festivals celebrated in this temple are Navaratri. The assets of this holy place belong to Lord Padmanabhaswamy, which controlled by a trust and maintained by the Royal family.  But recently, as per the court order the assets are under the control of Kerala state government.  

On some of the day on June 2011, the Supreme Court orders the authorities to unveil the secret chambers in the temple. The temple comprises six vaults in total and named from A to F. the A and B vaults are not opened for many years but the vaults C and F have been opened some periods of time.

    

The vaults in the temple comprise gold, jewels, 18th century Napoleonic era coins, three-and-a-half feet tall gold idol of Mahavishnu studded along with rubies and emeralds, traditional attire for titivate the deity in the form of 16-part gold anki weighing almost 30 kilograms (66 lb) jointly with gold coconut shells, one studded with rubies and emerald, and the list goes on. 

The estimated wealth of this temple has been calculated around 1.2 trillion (US$23.94 billion) this implies the richest temple in this globe. 

Keywords: Thiruvananthapuram, pilgrimage, Kerala state, temple