This spring is a interesting little spot: the men’s side has a picturesque stepped pool of aquamarine water set right against the ocean, while the women have a smaller pool surrounded by tall walls. The waters are supposed to be healing. There are changing rooms on-site; women should bathe in something modest. Frequent Jaffna minibuses run to the spring, or get a three-wheeler from the Tellippalai junction (Rs 400/700 one way/return).
Legend has it that the spring became famous after the 7th-century visit by a Chola princess: not only was her digestive disorder instantly healed when she bathed in the waters and prayed to Murugan, but so was her facial deformity, which, according to one source, had the ‘likeness of a horse’s head’.
