The Tiger Caves.

Tiger caves!!!!!!!!! Sounds nice and dangerous.Well am not going to encounter with a tiger anywhere here. It's a so called tourist spot in the famous ECR.Its a happy ride along the bay side(even tough the beach must be more than half a km away from the road).

The journey to tiger caves started without much of planning because planning always led to a war of words with us. And so it was surprisingly a pleasant afternoon in Chennai, after our lunch Ajay, Dilip and me started from ajay's place. we never had the idea of going to this place but since i haven't seen this place before i persuaded him to make a trip there and fortunately he agreed. The next thing i knew was that we were all in our bike on our way to there. Passing through the heavy traffic of the Chennai streets is of course an herculean task for even the most experienced drivers in the city. Braving the raging streets of Chennai, we started on this beautiful trip.

It was really indeed pleasant throughout the drive. we turned right to reach the IT Expressway. I just had a glance at a car parked on the side of the a road, a LEXUS sedan, Wow!! Chennai is growing too fast. Following the road we reached the ECR stretch. The traffic was beginning to reduce in the highway and it was such pleasure to drive in these roads. Zooming our way to our destination we crossed so many motels,VGP Universal Kingdom, MGM, Mayajaal. To our left the beach(pebble beach or pearl beach,whatever it is called) started to emerge to make our ride more scenic. The trees in the side provided a beautiful location for the ideal picnic spot for many families.

We stopped in one such place and parked our bikes in a natural shed there and started to walk. It was feeling nice to walk on the sands of the beach with your friends.Walking a little further inside towards the roaring sound of the waves, pushing aside the small plants grown i as able to smell the waters(astonishin that one can smell water eh??!! ). Just crossing the final array of these plants we stepped on the sands oh the beach with the waters inviting me to wash my feet. The place was isolated. There were no one else other than we three. The first thing we did were take photos. I scribbled my name all over the beach. We posed ourselves as tough we were the best models in town. we spent nearly an hour posing for photos and scribbling our names.I just didn't have the mind to leave this place and start back. But the Tiger caves is still a little more drive from this serene spot. A perfect tranquility.

At last we started to our decided destination. It was a 15 km ride from our previous spot. The followed the road alongside the beach. We finally reached our place. This is no big place to be a tourist spot. A big leaning rock and a rock carved sculpture with tiger faces are the property of this place. This must be a park actually.But it was more peaceful and silent with the smell of the beach filling the atmosphere. We climbed to the top of the rock and another photo session was on. Posing to be the most funniest clowns seen around we shot more than a 100 photos (Wow!!!). Then myself and Dilip had a walk along the length of the park. It was fresh and green(hard to find such places in cities!). Tall tress and green grasses adorned the area inside the fence. At the end of the park there was a Sivalingam inside a small temple like structure. The lingam must be of granite i think so am not sure , a broken Nandhi was seen opposite to the lingam. And there was nothing more here except the peace and silence(which u don't get in the city). at last it was time for us to start back and reach home before the traffic swarms the road like bees. We finally bid a goodbye to my most wanted to be visited place and we started our way back to home.

This trip was all of sudden on one of the most boring afternoons. The reason i liked the place was nothine else but the serenity of the place and a nice ride to pass the time on a boring afternoon.