Yercaud sees 3.69 lakh tourists in ten days of summer festival

A full of 3.69 lakh tourists visited Yercaud during the 10 days of the Summer Festival and Flower Show held betwixt May 22 and May 31, up from the 3.39 lakh tourists who visited the elevation presumption during the events betwixt May 23 and May 29 past year.

Yercaud, known arsenic ‘Poor Man’s Ooty’, attracts lakhs of visitors during the summertime festival and angiosperm amusement held each May. This year, the summertime festival was inaugurated on May 22. Initially the territory medication announced that the festival would beryllium held for 7 days until May 28. But pursuing request from tourists, the festival was extended until May 31. The events concluded connected Sunday evening.

Of the 3.69 lakh tourists, 1.53 lakh visited the angiosperm show, including 1.30 lakh adults and 23,408 children. Likewise, implicit these 10 days, 47,268 radical visited the Boat House, 69,421 visited the Pagoda Point, 18,032 visited the Gents Seat, 30,169 visited the Shevaroyan Temple, 10,135 visited the Killiyur Falls, 28,640 visited the Eco Park and 6,124 radical visited the Karadiyur viewpoint.

Horticulture Department officials said the structures and replicas made for the festival, including cows with calves, goats, hens, rabbits, ducks, bees, a farmhouse, and a teddy carnivore made utilizing flowers, would beryllium successful the parks for 1 much week and that radical could sojourn them successful the coming days.