Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Trip to velankanni

After had a good sleep we started to go for velankanni, it is nearly 30KM from nagoor. we took bus from nagoor to nagapattinam,after got down on nagapattinam from then we took bus to Velankanni. after 1hr of travel we reached velankanni. It is a holy place for christian. there the main god is "Annai velankanni" who is mother of Jesus. what i like most about the velankanni is the sanitation facility. i have been going for velankanni past 4 years still the way they maintain the church is amazing. especially if you compare with nagoor it is really good. after we got down from the bus we reached the velankanni at around 5.30. when we walking towards the church, suddenly rain had started as soon as it started we were looking for a place fortunately, though we didn't reach the main church there was a one more place to pray. we entered inside that place there i saw jesus statue and all the corners people were sitting and praying. myself and my family members have choosen a place and we sat there and started to praying. meanwhile one person came and he was fixing board to all the pillers. after few minutes of prayer i saw writings on the board. they had mentioned that heart,kidney problems. like that every piller they had board with different information. after few minutes i saw that board and was looking for a place which is relevant for my prayer.then i found one and i sat there for few minutes and had a good prayer.by the time rain was stopped. we came out and looked for buying flowers and candle to offer for velankanni annai. we went to near by candle shop and bought candle next to that i found person who was selling the flowers, i bought 5 of them and we went inside the church and offered the candle and flowers to the annai and prayed for few minutes. then we came out and decided to go for beach, we reached beach on another 10 min. like last year we didn't had any food from there. since it was not that much good we dicided not to have food on those places. after reached the beach we spent about 45min and were seeing all the things happening around the beach. meantime vinoth wanted to take some snaps of me. we took and dicided to return back to nagoor. myself, my mother and father have started to walk towards busstand. after few minutes i realised my brothers haven't came with me. after i made call to them they said, were looking to buy something. I got frustrated since we need to reach nagoor before they close the main dargah vasal, i was shouting at them to come fast. but they didn't respond then i had to wait for nearly 30mins till they reach. after we assembled together we got a bus with some
free seats.
after few minutes of travel there was a incident, a old man was sitting opposite of my seat. and he asked something to the next person. the person laughlingly replied something. meantime i understood, actually the old man suppose to got down on velankanni but he didn't. so he asked the next person where is velankanni. after he laughlingly replied, the man got up from seat. and went into the conductor for help conductor scolded that old man and asked him to give 2 rupees for travelling further distance from velankanni. by seeing all this i realised the old man couldn't hear properly because of that only he didn't get down when conductur was shouting when it was in velankanni.by seeing all this i was sympathized for that man. after few minutes we reached nagoor. we pushed ourselves to the room to reach nagoor dargah asap.

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