There are certain things that bring immense feelings of gratitude for being born on this earth. A beach with a great sunset is one of them.
We decided to drive down to Kanyakumari this time around as opposed to going by flights and taxis. I would have loved to do that on my Kawasaki anyway, but owing to the fact that my wife has never visited Kanyakumari in 45+ years of her life, I had to make a quick dash to show her the place.
Owing to it being a long weekend with a string of holidays, I had anticipated and prepared for the worst with respect to traffic on the highways. But somehow this time the traffic was a bit lesser as the crowds had already dispersed earlier on.
I thought driving 12 hours will be a bit cumbersome, so I decided to halt at the residency karur for one night before I continued onward to Kanyakumari. I have already reviewed the residency hotel in karur in this blog earlier if you want to check out what it feels like being there, you can read that blog post.
I split the 12 hour journey into two parts so that I could drive a bit slowly after breakfast at karur, to Kanyakumari. The second day the drive lasted about six hours and we had a couple of stops for lunch, and at the Muppandal windmill farm, something that I wanted my kid and wife to experience and cherish.
This windmill farm literally has hundreds of windmills, and it is split by the highway going through, which is somewhat of a bypass to Nagercoil town. It’s a site to behold, and once mind automatically feels refreshed, seeing so many windmills turning in the wind. The best time to reach there is somewhere after 2 PM and you can see all the windmills turning with the wind. The wind itself is very very strong and it was quite a cumbersome task to negotiate about 30 to 40 km on the bike. With the car, however, since there was a windshield, there was some amount of protection available.
After spending a good amount of time at this windmill farm and clicking a bit of photos, some really near to the windmills, we proceeded on to reach Annai resorts and spa in Kanyakumari. we had time just to check into the resort, leave our baggage in the room and start our brisk walk to the Sunset Beach, where we could spend the rest of the evening, watching a beautiful sunset.
Being a long holiday weekend, there was a lot of crowd on this beach, making it very difficult to get into the waters as there are very few places where we can get into the water while most of it is rocky and inaccessible.
I still manage to get into the water and be there in the water for a while, and also manage to get some interesting photographs of the sunset. Though in this digital age getting AI generated, Sunset photographs is not a big deal, but still the emotion involved in being at the beach during sunset is always going to be the same curiosity of what technology we are using, and that is what I wanted to enjoy that evening.
After spending almost an hour at the Sunset Beach and also grabbing something to eat along the way in those small stalls there we walk back to the hotel each way being about a kilometre of walk, and we are very satisfied with the way the whole journey went all the way from karur up to Kanyakumari and back to the hotel for the evening. We ordered some food at the hotel itself and 8 to our hearts content before we had to call it a day. I’ll leave you with some of the photographs taken during the visit to Sunset Beach in Kanyakumari so that you can see them and enjoy.
Do dropping your comments if you have visited this beach and let me know what you felt in the comment section below.
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