THRISSUR POORAM FESTIVAL

THRISSUR POORAM

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KERALA

Thrissur pooram commonly called the pooram of all poorams. It is one of the mammoth pooram festival in kerala. It is a 36 hours continous pooram attracting a huge mass of people from different places including international tourists.

The pooram starts at the time of Kanimangalam sasthavu ezhunnellippu in the early morning and followed by the ezhunnellippu of other six temples. One of the major event in Thrissur pooram is “Madathil varavu”- is a panchavadhyam melam, participating more than 200 artists, consists of Thimila, Madhalam, Trumpet, Cymbal and Edakka (Different types of instruments). At 2’ O clock, inside the vadakkumnathan temple starts the famous Ilanjithara melam – a type of melam consists of drum, trumpets, pipe and cymbal

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Thrissur pooram commonly called the pooram of all poorams. It is one of the mammoth pooram festival in kerala.it is a 36 hours continous pooram attaracting a huge mass of people from different places including international tourists.

Thrissur Pooram Festival is one of the most splendid and colorful temple festivals of Kerala. Introduced by Sakthan Thampuran, the Maharaja of erstwhile Kochi state, Thrissur Pooram is celebrated in the Malyalam month of Medom, which usually falls in April or May.

The Thrissur Pooram features cultural potpourri and artistic performances of Paramekkavu and Thiruvambadi groups who vie with each other for the best performance. The extraordinary, astounding processions from Krishna Temple and Devi Temple are some other highlights of the festival.

 On the day before the last day of the festival, the groups enter the Vadakumnatha Temple through the western gate and come out through the southern gate to parade face to face with each other. Caparisoned elephants and the exchange of umbrellas look dazzlingly beautiful and mesmerizing.

Air

The nearest international airport is at Nedumbassery, Ernakulam located 60km north from Thrissur.

Rail

Thrissur is an important railhead of the southern railway and linked to most major towns inside and outside Kerala. The railway station is about 1km south-west of the town centre and just 350 meters from the temple premises. Trains to Ernakulam, 74km south, take about 1¹/₂ -2 hours; trains to Kozhikode, 118km north, take about 3hours. 

Road

There are frequent buses from Thrissur along NH47 to different destinations. The KSRTC bus stand is at the south west of the town center. There are buses to Kochi (2 hrs), Thiruvananthapuram (8 hrs), Kozhikode (3 ¹/₂ hrs), Kottayam, Palakkad (1 ¹/₂ hrs), Chennai (12hrs)etc. The large, private bus stand Sakthan Tampuran is south of the city center, the smaller, private Priyadarshini bus stand is north of the city. Private buses have frequent services to places close by like Guruvayur and small towns like Mallapuram and Shornur near by.