Thiruvairanikkulam Mahadeva Temple

Thiruvairanikkulam Mahadeva temple is situated in Aluva,Ernakulam District.There are pratishtas of Lord shiva and parvathi Devi .But the   importance of this temple is Parvathi Devi's Sreekoil will be opened only for 12 days in a year.During this time people from many places will visit this temple.This season will be called as nadathurakkal Mahotsavam.It will; be on every thiruvathira during Dhanu masam.
It is belived that  any body with prayer for marriage or child birth who visit the Goddess Parvathi during those 12 days, gets their prayers fulfilled. Large number of devotees from all parts of Kerala visit the temple during that period.  

Sripadmanabha temple

The Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala could well be the richest in the country as unofficial estimates Saturday, the sixth day of preparing an inventory of treasures in its six chambers, suggested the value of its gold, diamond and other precious metals at close to Rs 1 lakh crore.

The inventory of the temple here, maintained by the erstwhile royal family of Travancore, is being made by a seven-member Supreme Court-appointed panel.

The stock-taking process was ordered by the Supreme Court following a petition by advocate T.P. Sundararajan over mismanagement of the temple affairs.

Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple trivandrum

Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple or the Sree Anantha Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a famous ancient Lord Vishnu temple located inside the East Fort of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Sree Anantha Padmanabhaswamy Temple is one of the 108 Divya Desams, the holiest abodes of the Lord Mahavishnu. Lord Vishnu is seen here in Anananthasayanam posture, lying on Sri Anantha, the hooded snake. The city of Thiruvananthapuram is named after the Lord. This magnificent Hindu temple is an important landmark of the Trivandrum city. According to traditions, Sree Padmanabhaswamy is believed to have been worshipped by Chandra (Moon God) and Indra (the head of the Devas).
Dress Code: - Sari for ladies  mundu  for gents

Pazhavangadi Maha Ganapathi

Pazhavangadi Maha Ganapathi Temple is one of the most famous Lord Ganesh temples in Kerala, situated at East Fort, Thiruvananthapuram. Located in the heart of Trivandrum city, the original idol of the Pazhavangadi Ganapathy Temple is a small idol of Lord Ganesh, with the right leg in the folded posture.

Main offering

The main vazhipadu (offering) of Pazhavangadi Maha Ganapati is the breaking of coconut for removing obstacles and fulfillment of any desire. Ganapathi Homam, Appam, and Modakam are other main offerings to Lord Ganesh.

How to Reach
Sree Pazhavangadi Mahaganapathy Temple is just 1.4 kms from Trivandrum Central Railway Station and Thiruvananthapuram Central Bus Station. The nearest City Bus Stand is East Fort . Trivandrum International Airport is about 8 km from the temple.

Hanuman Temple,Alathiyoor,Malappuram

This temple is just 14 kms from Tirur Railway station.Tirur is about 370 kms from Trivandrum and 50 kms from Calicut.he temple is popularly known as "Perumthrikkovil" in the Malappuram district. The temple was maintained by Alathiyur Grama Namboodiri. Afterwards it was taken over by Vettath Raja. Then after the management of the temple was taken over by Zamorin Raja of Kozhikode. After formation of Kerala Government Devaswam Board the management of the temple is with the Devaswam Board. It is believed that the installation of the Lord Hanuman's idol in this temple was performed non other than Sage Vasishta himself. 

The temple is built in the "Kerala Ammbalam" architecture. Here in the main sanctum Lord Sree Rama is seen with a peculiar expression on his face and is seen without his concert Mata Sita by his side. Sree Rama seen here is after Ravana's extortion of Mata Sita. The  idol of Lord Sree Rama is seen as he was giving the message to Sree Hanuman about Sree Sita before Sree Hanuman embarked on the mission of locating  mata Sita. Such a peculiar expression is vividly seen on the face of Sree Rama’s vigraha of this kshetra.

The temple of Sree Hanuman is adjacent to the main temple of Sree Rama. In the main sanctum Lord Hanuman is seen standing leaning forward to hear his master’s words with a club in His hand. He is facing south and it is very rare or one could say nowhere lese you could see a South facing Hanuman.

The main offering to Lord Hanuman in this temple is "Pothi Avil" and is famous. The "Prasadam" of "Pothi Avil" is made of hundred coconuts, hundred measures of Rice flake (Avil), twenty-eight kilos of jaggery, 12 kilos of country sugar, 750 grams of dry ginger, 800 grams of Jeera. All these ingredients are mixed to make "Pothi Avil". 

Thaliyal Mahadeva Temple

This temple is situated at thaliyal near to karamana,Trivandrum,Kerala.The exact location is

http://wikimapia.org/170421/Thaliyal-Mahadeva-Temple-Major  . This is a temple of lord shiva.The temple will be opened from 5 am to 10 am and 5 pm to 8 pm daily.Special poojas will be there on mondays (swayamvara pooja,swayam vara pushpanjali).The legend aboout this temple is that :

Shiva's search for the recalcitrant bull led him to the nearby village of Thaliyal, on the banks of the river Karamana. In a conciliatory gesture, Shiva appeared before Nandi, with his consort and gave him permission to take up permanent residence there and in recognition of his courageous and independent stand, offered him food. In memory of this incident, to this day, during the annual Kanthalloor festival, Shiva, accompanied by Vishnu and Brahma, stops by at the Thaliyal Shiva temple to offer food to Nandi and thereafter proceeds for `aarattu' (the ceremonial bath) in the Thaliyal temple pond.

There are vigrahas of ganapathy,hanuman,nandi,and nagar.Poojas for all vigrahas will be there daily.Kodiyettu will be there during the month of february.

NARASHIMHA MOORTHY TEMPLE THOOTHA

Thuthapuzha River is one of the main tributaries of the Bharathapuzha River, the second-longest river in Kerala, south India. Kunthipuzha that flows through the Silent Valley is one of its tributaries. Elamkulam, Thiruvegappura and Pulamanthole are places of importance situated on the bank of this river.This narashimha moorthy temple is very near to thootha.From perinthalmanna it takes abt 16 kms to this temple.From perinthalmanna --(go thru cherpelssery Route)--anamangad---Thootha.From thootha Junction go left ..You have to drive 1.2-1.5 kms .Narashimha moorthy Temple.

visit to kaukkad temple

This is an Ayyappa temple which is recently re-constructed . There are many poojas especially for sani dosham like sesame vilakku.. This temple is situated in malappuram district in kerala.
To be precise malappuram-->manjeri-->nilambur-->chungathara-->edakkara route-..stop near kalasala junction ..At that junction there is a small road thru which we have to drive abt 1.5 kms. Its pretty good if you visit during the vrishchika (October-November) Month with proper vritas.The route from manjeri to nilambur and upto this temple is splendid in sight seeing especially the river
in the place called Edavanna(which is in between manjeri and nilambur). Both sides of the road with full greenary and all...just amazing...
We can see the snow cladded mountains.. people who visiting kerala or India should definetely choose this location as one of their sites.Pictures of this cute place will be uploaded soon.

Nalambalam visit

Triprayar Temple

The four temples of central kerala, thronged by Hindu devotees during the holy month of karkitakam ( also the month of rain. See this) are the Ram temple at Thriprayar, Bharatha temple at Koodal Manikyam, Lakshmana temple at Moozhikulam and Satrughna temple at Payyamal. It was exciting to visit these ancient places of worship which I did on last Saturday along with my wife and son .My parents and my wife’s parents accompanied us.These temples together are called the Nalambalam and the deities here are the four sons of King Dasaratha of Ramayana. Lord Ram, the eldest of them is the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu, who is the Supreme God of the Hindus. Bharata , second amongst them, is the avatar of the Panchajanya (Conch held by Vishnu) .Lakshmana is the avatar of the Adisesha, the serpent of infinite measures and on whom Lord Vishnu sleeps in the Ocean of Milk. Satrughna (the One who is destroyer of enemies) is the twin bother to Lakshamana and the youngest .He is the avatar of the Sudarshana chakra held by Lord Vishnu.The temples are located in Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in kerala and one needs to travel around 200 kilometeres to cover all these temples in the correct order.We reached Thriprayar around 5 AM in the morning and there was a queue of over a 1000 people and a similar queue existed in all other temples.It took us a good two hours to come out of the temple after darshan.Just right before our darshan, the sri kovil ( the place where the supreme diety of the temple resides) was closed for an intermediate pooja. So that got us standing there chanting the the Ram mantras for an hour and then the darshan happened. It was wonderful feeling of waiting and then getting the chance to see the Lord.The second temple at koodalmanikyam has a important pond ( ambalakulam) said to be the spot where the ancient sage “kuleepani Maharshi” did his Tapas/ Penance. The temple is beautiful for it’s architectural marvel. Bharata ruled the ancient kingdom of Ayodhya while his brother Ram was in exile in the forest. Bharata never ascended the throne of Ayodhya, instead kept the Padukas ( Ancient footwear made of wood ) of Ram on the throne, did Paduka Pooja and ruled on behalf of Ram. Bharata is considered to be a great ruler in the epics.The third temple at Moozhikulam belongs to the Lakshama. He is the closest to Lord Ram and accompanied Lord Ram to the exile in forest. While all people near to Ram wanted to accompany him to the forest, only his wife Sita Devi and Lakshmana were allowed by Ram to accompany him. Adishesha (whose avatar is Lakshmana) incarnates when Lord Vishnu decides to incarnate in the world. They are closely entangled. In one of the esoteric interpretations of Ramayana, Lord Ram is interpreted as the Soul (Atman) and Lakshman as the Mind (Manas). The manas is required to dwell in the material plane perceived by the five senses and incarnation has meaning only when a mind comes to existence and so on the interpretation goes…Payyamal was the last temple we visited and it is dedicated to satrughna. Satrughna being the avatar of sudarshana chakra, one can offer Sudarshana chakra to the diety. The temple does not come under the Governament administration. (Government controls all or most Hindu places of worship in Kerala, through the Devaswom board in the days where we have even profit making PSU’s getting decontrolled).But this temple was the place where the organizers (basically local people) did a great job in crowd control. They also did annadanam ( free food for all people after offering to Lord Satrughna) with discipline considering the space limitations in the temple.My hearty thanks to the organizers at Payyamal.

One feels vitalized from the inner after the pilgrimage to these ancient temples in the month of karkitakam.