Hyderabad to Srisailam
After Many discussion with family members finally decided to go Srisailam.
After Many discussion with family members finally decided to go Srisailam.
From Hyderabad to Srisailam around 210 Km, We started from
Hyderabad around 8:30 in the morning and went from Outer Ring road and took the
exit 14 for srisailam highway, so the number of KM are 235Km as we went via
ORR. Drive is awesome and road condition is great.
Route – Hyderabad – ORR exit 14 – Kadthal – Amangal - kalvakurthi- Munnanur- srisailam
We took the food from home as I saw some blogs says there
wont be hotels in highway, but on the way to srisalam I saw nearly 10 to 15
dhaba’s.
I reached the Munnanur around 11:30 AM as we took the break
at Amangal for break fast.
From Munnanur to srisailam is around 80Km and its Ghat road.
We have register our vehicle at Munnanur check post before enter into forest. Registration
fee for light weight vehicle is 10 rs and don’t throw away the slip at the
end of the Forest check post they will verify the same.
Once you enter into Munnanur forest check post, after 25Km
you can find the mallapur village from there if you take left turn and travel
8Km then you find the water falls named Mallela Thirtham.
Mallapur to Mallela Thirtham is just 8KM but road condition
is not so great but you can manage… once you reach Mallela Thirtham you have to
step down 360 steps to reach the water falls, when I went there the flow of
water falls are not so great..
After spending 2 hours of time there then we started to
srisailam and its 50Km of Ghat road in the ghat you rarely see the vehicles and
you can see plenty of monkeys in the road side, my kids enjoyed the trip..
After 10 to 20 KM you can find the wild life Sanctuary, you
can find big tiger picture in front of that sanctuary there they arrange the
forest safari, around 20 KM they took you into forest in their vehicle and they
charge you 100 Rs per head, timings are 10 AM to 5PM. I missed this one as I
enquirer on my return trip.
Once we reached the exit of forest check post they asked the
ticket when we took the ticket from entry point luckily I kept the ticket in my
pocket, there no need to pay anything that is just checking.
Exit of forest check post village called Domala penta.
Before 17Km of Srisailam we can find the Dam view point, Tea
vala and ice cream vala asking you to stop at all view points. There are more
than one Dam view points but there is a proper view point which clearly written
as view point.
We had spent 30 min, no gates were opened and no water.
Once we enter into srisailam we stopped the vehicle at Sakshi Ganapati Temple and we offer the pray. (All pilgrims generally tend to start their visit to Srisailam from Sakshi Ganapati temple.)
Once we reached the srisailam we took the room as I already
booked, (I didn’t find any online room booking from temple site, but we can book
the rooms from APTDC site).
After fresh up we went for Darshan, I took 150 Rs ticket and
it took me 30 min for Darshan.
Next day we went for local sightseeing. There are 6 to 7
places for sightseeing.
Pathala ganga – just 1 Km from temple and there is a free
bus service from temple and there are number of sharing autos. Even you can
talk with auto wala and take the package of local tour to cover all the places. But
we took sharing auto and went pathala ganga.
There are 800 steps to reach patha ganga, but AP government
arranged the Rope way to reach the pathala ganga but it took you some point
only still you need to get down 160
steps to reach pathala ganga. Rope way ticket is 71Rs, there is a facility for
Boat riding, either you can take a combo ticket(Ropeway + Boating) or you can
take boat riding once you reach pathalaganga 50 Rs per head.
Rope way – I took the rope way ticket and waited for 1 hour.
Once I get down I decided to go for Boat riding and I took the tickets for boat
riding at Pathala Gana point and Boat riding was 20 min. they took you till the
DAM and bring you back.
After lunch we vacated the hotel room and started visit
other visiting points as these are on the way back to Hyderabad.
We saw hatakeswarm and we dropped to see the paladhara/panchadhara
as there is no water more over we have get down 160 steps to reach paladhara.
We went shikaram, from srisailam it is 8 KM. there is Nandi
at shikaram, we can see the srisaila malli karjuna temple gopuram from this point.
We dropped some sightseeing places as forest check post will
close.
We started back to Hyderabad with sweet memories.
Note - you can find the petrol pump at munnanure after this you cant find the petrol pump. Please check the Air and fuel before entering into ghat section.
Thanks.
Subhash
