It is the time where the whole world is facing a challenge against the Covid-19 virus and almost all countries went into the lockdown period from the beginning of 2020 and gradually unlock started. As we all know that unlock is for the economy to boost and not that we are free of Covid-19. As a citizen, we all have followed the lockdown restriction imposed by the government by staying at the home and avoiding any unnecessary travel including travel to a destination, exploration, visiting public places etc.,
Humans are a social animal and it is very difficult to lock ourselves from the outside world for a very long time without any recreation. At the same time, we should behave responsibly during the unlock period by following the social distancing, wearing a mask, cleaning the hands often etc. With this in mind, we planned for a very short day trip to Tharangambadi as we heard this beach will be less crowded than its counterpart Karaikal beach.
About Tharangambadi
The history dates back to 17th century when Danish came to India for trading, they built a fort for housing governers, merchants etc. To date, the fort is maintained very well and today it contains lots of old artifacts. It has a good beach with a park, restaurants nearby.
Reaching Tharandambadi
We started from Kumbakonam and we wanted to enjoy the journey itself and not just the beach in Tharangambadi. There are multiple different directions to reach the place from Kumbakonam but we chose the direction via Aduthurai - Porayar Rd https://goo.gl/maps/d3pcog4kqX5PxdEw9 . The nice thing about the road is that 45 km out of 58 km will be road next to the riverbank making the journey more pleasant and joyful. To our advantage this year the Cauvery catchment had huge rainfall and all the dams were overflowing and all through our journey we were seeing the full flow of water and kids were playing in the group along the side of steps in the riverbank.
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Museum in the fort complex
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Behind is the river
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Baniyan tree on the river bank
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In the beach
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Fort
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