~ PAYYANUR ~ PICS SHOT WITH CELL ~ SERIES 2 ~

Here I present you some pics which I shot with my cell cam - Nokia E51 - 2 Mega Pixel... Thou they do not excel perfection, and some says its my madness, but I had put much effort to capture all these with my poor quality cell phone cam... Hope you won't like it... LOLs... :P~ (NB:- History of Payyanur is added at the bottom of the post)

OLD BUS STAND, PAYYANUR

CO-OPERATIVE STORES PREMISE, WAY TO GANDHI PARK / SABHA HOSPITAL, PAYYANUR

GANDHI PARK, PAYYANUR

NEAR TODDY SHOP, RAILWAY STATION, PAYYANUR

RAILWAY STATION, PAYYANUR

PONNY SILKS, OLD BUS STAND, PAYYANUR

SREE SUBRAHMANYA SWAMI TEMPLE PREMISE, PAYYANUR

GANDHI PARK, PAYYANUR

PAYYANUR

GANDHI PARK, PAYYANUR

EZHIMALA RAILWAY STATION

WHEN TRAIN STOPPED IN PAYYANUR RAILWAY STATION - USUAL SCENE IN PAYYANUR - KANNUR ROUTE

Payyanur is one of the ancient civilized places in Kerala. This northern town of Kerala claims a rich and glorious heritage. The archeological remaining excavated from Payyanur and nearby places proves the existence of a civilized city in this area centuries ago. The earliest mention of this town is in the Brahmanda Purana, when Muni Garga talks about the town to the Pandavas during their exile.

The famous travelers, who visited here, have described about this area in high words. The famous traveler Ibn Bathutha visited Ezhimala in AD 1342 and wrote about the big seaport and the Chinese ships anchored here. 1n AD 1273 Abul Fida and in AD 1293 the world famous traveler Marco Polo, and in 15th century the Italian traveler Nicholo Kondi also visited this place and had given a very good impression about Ezhimala port which was called by the name “Heli”. The Portuguese Scholar and traveler Barbosa who made lot of researches and studies on Kerala and its People had described a lot about this place.

Centuries back Payyanur was a part of the Ezhimala Rajya. King Nandan who ruled this Ezhimala Rajya was very famous and mighty. The books written during Sang Time describe about this country and this king with much importance. Later Ezhimala became under the regime of the Chera Dynasty and thereafter the Mooshaka (Yadava) Dynasty. Ramanthali was the headquarters of the Mooshaka Dynasty.

PAYYANUR ~ http://www.payyanur.com/history.htm

WIKIPEDIA ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payyanur