samayapuram temple trip

Some of my family friends wanted to visit Samayapuram ….. Started from Trichy ….. Nice ride …. Entry charge is as usual 40 rupees …… they collect it with a pride ….. I slowly drove my vehicle, either in 3rd gear, or at times in 2nd gear ….. Cattle were lying literally on the road … whose cattles are they …nobody was bothered ……. Even the people were walking almost in the center of the road ….. Ok …. I took the vehicle straight along the small congested road ….. So many small commercial establishments…. At one point of time there were four small roads meeting at a spot …… I was confused where I should go … should I go straight to keep left … there was no direction boards to go to the temple and the temple parking slot …. With some confusion, somehow reached the samayapuram old bus stand, where I saw so many private vehicles had been parked …. Surprisingly nobody asked me the parking charge …… then we came out of the vehicle, found a small road fully clogged with so many shops selling fancy items etc etc …. Initially I saw so many pay and use toilet also on the side of the road …. To pass loo , they asked 5 rupees …… no problem … but there was no water … somehow asked him for water ,,.. finally got the bucket of water too …… came across the main entrance of the temple …. There itself somany village girls intercepted asking to buy the body parts made of silver etc etc …. They also asked us to buy the flowers and other items …. Once in every 5 meters there was a lady selling the flowers in the center of the pathway ……. But one I entered inside the temple, the situation was ok …… they have built hundreds of barricades and bridges for the pilgrims … fans were working properly …. Waited for some 40 minutes,,,,,, inside the aircooler/AC was working ….. with in these 40 minutes , I might have seen some 5 or 6 couples crossing over to get first blessing fron God …… the queue was fast … and most important , nobody there pressurized for the kanikkai ….. finished darshan and came out …. Same story … had to pass through the congested shops …. Atleast there must be some 500 shops selling fancy , and other items around the temple ….. I understand , there are so many people likely to get livelihood out of this … but my only thinking was , they could decongest this place ….. there were some poor old ladies selling the items , literally sitting on the road …… travelling/driving from the temple to the highway back , was another story ……. …. Still it aws a ok trip …. Bye for now ….