Road Trip From Bangalore To Kottayam

letz focus on travel route details alone here........
For people who wish to enjoy the travel experience by road , let me take you through the travel route details.





To access details about the Kottayam, places to visit in Kottayam, an url is made available to you to make it easy for you.
http://www.ktm.kerala.gov.in/

Hope you had a snapshot and got familiar about kottayam by visiting to the above mentioned website.

So,

TWO ROUTES
Tamil Nadu (TN) route
b'lore - Krishnagiri - Salem - Madurai - Teni - Kumily - Kottayam

Kerala route
B'lore -Dharmapuri- Coimbatore--Palaghat-thrissur-Ernakulam(cochin)- Kotayam

YOU CAN SWITCH FROM TN TO KERALA ROUTES
From Salem, you can use bypass road ( wonderful!!!! If you will be speeding much, then better to drive with speed control) to reach palghat without entering coimbatore.

Travelling through blend of nature is usually an enjoyable experience in Kerala.

In TN route, I can tell this interesting one to you. Thekkady is 5Km from Kumuli. it is known for elephants, other wild animals, and famous dam.I missed thekkady, when i had went to munnar. Munnar is also in the round about of this route only. But munnar might require atleast a day to stay there and observe the nature before you get to kottayam.

ANY OF THESE ROUTES- TOTAL TIME
Approximately 9 - hours all together i believe. Better to start early.

Hope this information was useful to you.Have a nice time visiting Kottayam.

Beethoven's town...Bonn, a city of culture

Beethon

The concrete sculpture "Beethon" in front of the Beethovenhalle, created by the Düsseldorf artist Klaus Kammerichs has become a modern emblem of Beethoven’s city Bonn.













Beethoven Monument

The Beethoven Monument on the Münsterplatz was unveiled in August 1845 in honour of Beethoven's 75th birthday at the first Beethoven Festival. The statue's stance and symbolism characterise the "inspired composer" who, with an upward-turned gaze, seems to receive a creative inspiration to record it in his notebook with his stylus.










Old City Hall at the Markt

Visitors often climb the famous stairway in front of the facade to the platform where famous guests of the state, queens and kings once stood and made their speeches to thousands of people standing on the market place. Only a few steps away there's the Beethoven house where the composer was born in 1770. The nice building is a museum about life and works of Beethoven now.




Guided Tour about Beethoven in Bonn

A walk with 13 stops familiarizes you with key situations of Beethoven’s childhood and youth in Bonn. It was developed by a working group around the society "Citizens for Beethoven” and co-sponsored by Glasfachschule Rheinbach, City Parkraum GmbH and Stadtwerke Bonn.

The stops include Beethoven’s home at Bonngasse 20 with its Chamber Music Hall, Haus zum Mohren (House named "The Moor”), Saint Remigius Parish Church in Brüdergasse, the house at Rheingasse 24, the University Main Building (Lecture Hall 17) Schlosskirche (Palace Church), Zehrgarten/Markt (at the Old Town Hall), the Minster Church, (the former Minster School), the Beethoven Monument in the Münsterplatz, Kaufhof Department Store (former Breuning-House), the Beethoven Concert Hall, the Beethon Monument (a play on words of Beethoven and Beton = concrete), the tomb of Beethoven’s mother in the Old Cemetery (Alter Friedhof), the ancient ball room La Redoute and the Lippe Palais.



The Beethoven - Haus

The Beethoven-Haus, a landmark of Bonn, is supported by the Beethoven House Trust (founded in 1889) and encompasses a Museum, the Beethoven Archives and the Chamber Music Hall. The Museum displays a representative selection from the trust's collections, the largest privately-owned Beethoven collection in the world. Portraits, original manuscripts, instruments and everyday objects convey a lively and authentic glimpse into the life and work of the composer. The Beethoven Archives founded on the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death in 1927 as a scientific research institute, are the central repository of documents relating to Beethoven's life, work and intellectual circle and own also a special library. The Chamber Music Hall, inaugurated in 1989, not only has outstanding acoustics, but is also considered to be a particularly beautiful modern concert hall. Alongside the special emphasis on the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, music of modern times is also performed and promoted here.
In the years to come it is planned to open the Beethoven Haus round the clock to the world’s public: In the virtual ‘Digital Beethovenhaus’, Internet users will find everything about the composer, his work, his life and his time. To the sound of Beethoven’s music, they will be able scroll original editions and manuscripts which are exhibited nowhere else.



Click Speciality , if you want to know about the speciality of Beethoven.

The Road Trip - Bangalore To Goa

A journey...Road Trip - Bangalore To Goa
4-day holiday, best time to realize long trip on the roads of western coastline of Karnataka and Goa
http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2005/11/road-trip-bangalore-to-goa.html

Marayoor

On the way to Munnar, after crossing Udumalpet, there is a place called marayoor.
Wonderful waterfalls, many more. You can see the pictures of the place.Then history says, this is the place where pandavas of Mahabharata epic , stayed for a while during their exile. You can easily glance through various sections in the following link. I am sure you will enjoy, as i did, reading through.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marayoor

Also, in the following link, clicking on Thoovam on the right and many more, you can view the screenshots. The falls is wonderful to watch.
http://www.marayoor.com
As for tourists stay is concerned, Munnar wud be the best place to stay, but marayoor in the route to munnar, is a place to spend some time with natural scenaries.

A journey with plan, preparation.......
http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2005/07/hill-stations-of-south-india.html