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Tiruchendur Kanyakumari Papanasam visit

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Tamilnadu Temples It was my wife’s a decade long dream to visit Tiruchendur - the sea shore temple of Lord Murugan,   one of the six abodes of Him.   As per the standard phrase in Tamil – “time has to come for everything to happen”.   We finally booked our tickets to Tirunelveli sometime in Jan 2019 for our journey on 1 st March 2019.   Initially, Kaushik was not expected to join us and tickets were not booked.   However, due to coaxing from his brother, he also agreed to join for the trip and could get only an onward WL ticket and a return RAC ticket.   Some years back, a TT collector had informed me that chances of ‘conversion’ is high if one buys a ticket at the railway counters.   Keeping this in mind, I advised him to buy his ticket from KR Puram Railway station.   I strongly believe that this helped in his ticket getting converted into a RAC for onward and a confirmed sleeper for his return journey. Having booked the tickets, it ...