Good Morning culture in Salem, Tamil Nadu province, India

Cows are important in Salem
Salem is a typical Tamil Nadu city with its religious frenzy and early rising culture.  You can get up at four in the morning and get good tiffin in Salem.  All the roads become active by five in the morning.  I visited Sri Saravana Restaurant near new Bus Stand by 5.00 am.  Tea began to be served by 5.15 am and a decorated cow was brought inside for giving blessing to the customers.  It was exactly 5.30 am and maybe the blessing is available 365 days a year.  Vadas are available by 5.35 here and steaming Idlis accompanied with spicy Indian sambar come only by 5.45 am. 

Salem has many cheap hotels with good facilities.  Hotel Travellers Inn is near Shanugha Hospital on Polytechnic Road.  Hotel Priyaa Towers Lodging  is near the LIC colony on Vasantham road and they charge Rs.400 for double rooms with TV, bath, lift and all. 

A very comfortable walk can be manoeuvred on the Dharmapuri Road from Salem.  Take the road in front of Kombur Dargah and ask for SRS College of Engineering and Technology.  Walk in front of the white building of the College of Nursing at Paruthikkadu and proceed to Komalivattom village which means the village of clowns.  I couldn’t find any clowns there except mysef so I proceeded further on the Dharmapuri before getting exhausted at a teashop nearby.  Hot tea and two-rupee packets of Parle restored my senses and led my way back to the city by city bus charging only Rs.4.00 for a Rs.20.00 distance.  Oh! This is Tamil Nadu and Tamils cannot afford Mumbai level bus tickets.