Hyderabad to Basara Trip.
We planned to go basara for my younger son akshrabhyasam,
Hyderabad to basara around 210 Km from Hyderabad (Kukatpally), We started from
Hyderabad around 6:40 in the Morning and we took Nagapur Highway/NH44, route
like – Hyderabad – Medchal – kamareddy – Dichpally – Nizambad – basara.
We took break at kamareddy for breakfast, there are plenty
of dhaba’s in NH44, after breakfast we started from kamareddy and reached the
dichpally around 9:30AM, until dichpally its NH44 and road is awesome, we have
to take left turn for Basara from this point, and 50 KM drive for basara from
dichpally. Out of 50 Km 20 KM road is good remaining 30 KM road is not in good condition
but you can manage it.
We reached basara around 11:00 AM, as we already booked the satram
so we took the room there, there is a break for darshan/aksharabhayam from
12:30 PM to 2:00PM so we planned to visit Godavari river pushkhar ghat for
bath. From temple its around 2 KM and there were plenty of sharing autos from
temple to reach pushkhar ghat. Water is not so good, we plan to go for boat
riding, there were many boats available and per head they charge 30 or 40
depend on persons, they will take you some distance and there we can take the
bath and will come back, my kids enjoyed the boat riding. It’s a normal manual
boat not pedal or motor boat.
We came back to room, take the bath again, finished the
lunch, and went for aksharbhayasam. As that day is, Muala nakashtram and I
expected more crowd but crowd is not much. There are two type of tickets for
aksharabhayasam 1)1000 Rs 2) 100Rs. 1000 rs ticket will do akshrabhayasam at
main temple in front of god Sarasvati and 100 rs there is separate hall . 1000
rs ticket they will allow only two members for extract member they will charge
100 extra. There are Plenty of shop to buy the Akshrabhayasam KIT( 1 Big slate
3 small slates and etc…) they will charge 80 Rs. When you go for
aksharabhayasam we need two garlands one for kid and other one offer to god Sarasvati,
we don’t know about this but when I enter into the queue there is a board and
their only they are selling the garlands and they are charging two much(2 small
size garlands they are charging 100 RS, hardly worth of 20 RS) but as we don’t have
choice we took the garlands from there only.
Akasharabhayasam will do like batch wise and it will take
hardly 5 to 10 minutes, after that one by one will go to pujari place and he
will write on the slate with baby hand. After that, we can go for darshan of
God Sarasvati and five more minutes it will take for darshan.
After darshan, there is another place to visit Vyasa Guha
just 100 meters from temple.
Came back to room and took rest 1 hour and started back to
Hyderabad, we started around 6:00PM and we reached home by 11:00 PM. as it night journey I didn't cross more than 80 speed.
Hyderabad to basara – approximately 210 KM and for me it
took 4:30 hours including break. It is one-day trip.
