Palani Hill — Attraction in Tamil Nadu

Lots of frods are here to steal your money. Just visit temple and pray to God is ok. If we wish to spend 500 here we loss 2000. Most of all workshop God but some one who lies most near to God are cheating others. They are selling religion and workshop. It's believed to be loaded Murugan resides in the temple above this hill. We need to climb the hill through steps or can travel in rope way. Rope way is little expensive. But useful for some one who is not healthy to climb that much steps. View from hill top is very nice especially in nights. Palani north-west of Madurai, and 67 kilometres (42 mi) from Kodaikanal. The Palani Murugan Temple or Arulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple (Thiru Avinankudi), dedicated to Lord Murugan is situated on a hill overlooking the town. The temple is visited by more than 7 million pilgrims each year. Palani is home to one of the most sacred shrines of the Lord Muruga, as worshiped in the Hindu sect of Kaumaram. The Thandayudhapani Temple dedicated to Lord Murugan "Palani Andavar", and regarded one of his Arupadai Veedu (Six Battle Camps), is situated here. The temple is situated atop a hill known as Sivagiri. Arulmigu Kulazhandaivellayutha Swamy Temple (Thiruavinankudi), Palani is one among the six Padaiveedu's (Abode) of Lord Muruga which is the sub temple of Arulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple, Palani. Thai Poosam and Panguni Uthiram festivals are notified festivals of this temple and large number of devotees visiting this temple for dharsan of Lord Muruga. There are totally 38 sub-temples are attached with this main temple. It belongs to 9th century and the Cheran king Cheraman Peruman constructed this temple.

Height of the Hill Temple : 150 M. Total Steps : 693 Direction of Hill temple : Towards West. Circumference of the hill (Giriveethi ) : 2.40 KM.

Winch to hill top The capacity of winch is 36 seats and length of the way is 290 meters from base station to hill temple and travel time is only 8 minutes. The cost of winch is cheap and It operates from 5.20 A.M to 9 P.M. On festival days Winch will be operated from 3.20 A.M to 9.00 P.M.

Three Man Riding Haulage Winches are operated. The 36 seater 1st Winch was installed in the year 1966, the 32 Seater 2nd Winch was installed in the year 1981 and the 36 seater 3rd Winch was installed in the year 1988.

Along the winch tracks Greenish garden is maintained, waterfalls and Lily ponds are maintained at the lower winch station.

Rope Way System

The rope-car takes only 2.45 minutes to cover the distance of 320 metres . The rope car is faster than winch. The Rope car system is introduced for the first time in Tamilnadu at Arulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple, Palani for the benefits of the devotees.

A mono Cable Fixed Grip Reversible Jig-Back Rope way system is being operated with four cabins on each side with 350 passengers per Hour capacity with travel time of2.45 minutes. The rope way is operated from 7.00A.M to 9.00P.M with one hour break between 1.30P.M to 2.30P.M. artificial water fall are created along the rope car alignment.

Fare for Rope way : One way trip - Rs.15/-, Special way - Rs.50/-

Italian and Korean grass giving rock a greenish look were planted on the hill embarkment on the rope car station. 30 meters High artificial water fall is being created along the rope car alignment.

Second Ropeway System

Second rope way system of the same existing type but with higher capacity is going to be installed for which necessary action has already been taken.

Material Ropeway System

The installation of material rope way at cost of Rs.36 Lakhs to bring down the carbages collected at the hill temple is...

Palani Malai (Hill) is The Seat of Lord Muruga. Temple normally open from 05:30 AM to 09:00 PM. You should have to climb nearly 700 steps to reach almost 2500m height. Unfortunately Mobiles & Chappels are not allowed even from the foothill, but a lot of places are there to keep them safe. Wearing some modern dresses like low waist Jeans, sleeve less dresses, Burmuda, Lungi, tight Leggings were not allowed. But found some people wearing Jeans.

Toilet, drinking water & resting spots were available through out the way to the Temple. Cable car costs ₹50/person & Electric Winch costs ₹25/person service is also available for those who found difficult to get there through steps. Finally reaching the top, together with the temple beautiful scenary of the Palani Town, nearby areas, lake, roads & even Kodai Hills is awaiting.

You should have to take ₹10, ₹100 or ₹200 tickets for Darshan & sometimes long waiting required to enter the Sanctum. You will get a few seconds to see a Glimpse of Lord Muruga. After coming out a lot of counters were there providing Prasadam by paying cash, since mobile phones are not allowed UPI transactions are not possible.

You can spend a lot of time upon the hill without any restrictions. Facilities are available for those disabled persons to reach there & enter the Temple. Since it's too hot over the hill during sunny days, better to avoid mid...

Winch and cable car service is available to reach temple....

In winch two classes are there 15/- for normal and 25/- for first class... Cable car is of 25/- each... Panchamirtham of 35/- in plastic bottle and 40/- in tin... For tonsure 15/- for government but the barbers are very rude they will demand more money...

Suggest to take both winch and cable car... While going use winch and while coming back in cable car but ensure to leave shoes in hotel else if it is winch then one has to take horse cart ride to reach winch area which is of a km or so... Horse cart for a km is 50/-

People can opt to climb stairs which of apprx 800 but easy to climb or there is a quick ramp to avoid stairs.... Guava is very cheap to buy...

NOTE : ON THE WAY TO TEMPLE AFTER TONSURE THE SHOP KEEPERS MAY STOP PEOPLE MENTIONING THAT THEY WILL GIVE SANDAL FOR FREE... BUT LATER ENTERING INTO THE SHOP THEY WILL FORCE TO BUY SOME POOJA STUFFS AND THEY MAY CHARGE 2000/- OR SO.... PLEASE DON'T FALL IN SUCH TRAPS.... ALSO THEY MAY OFFER YOU THAT WITH THEIR REFERENCE THEY WILL HELP TO SEE SHRINE .... BUT IT IS FALSE COMMITMENT....

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