Weekend Gateway to Badrachalam-Papi hills- Kolluru Night stay- Rajamundry

Most Awaited trip as it has both night stay and boat way!!!!

We planned for a trip with colleagues to Badrachalam to Rajamundry through boat way with night stay at kolluru bamboo huts.

Started our journey from Hyderabad through Railway, started around 11:30PM at secundrabad railway station and reached Kothagudem railway station around 6:00 AM
We took an auto and went to rooms which we booked in badrachalam, it look almost 1hr to reach Badrachalam.

We got fresh up and started to Temple for Darshan.

As we booked as package(punami travels), after darshan we got into van which enrouted to pochavaram boating point. We reached boating point at around 12:00 PM , had some snacks and got into the boat.

Boating started with some kind of activities done by degree students which will be done for entertainment and for their studies.

Mean while we reached point where we have Lord Siva Temple in the forest.We went for darshan and enroute to river bank for having lunch.

After lunch, our journey again started to papi hills.

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And we returned to kolluru boat stay where we had our lunch.

We reached kolluru hut point around 4:30PM.

After we got assigned to huts, we started to explore the place and we got into river where there is no much depth and had a lot of fun.

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After having fun in water, we are back to our huts and had some playing time in the huts.

Then we had dinner and again started playing games like cards etc..

And then everyone got into bamboo huts for sleep.

NOTE: Please take enough stuff as air will be coming into huts from all sides.. if you are planning in winter..of-course it needs to be planned in winter itself.

Next day because of cool air we got up early around 6:30AM.

We had breakfast around 8:00AM and started for a walk in the forest which is very scenic and best experience.

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We again reached to water, we had explored and took some pics and we are back to huts.

And we got freshen up and had lunch and returned to boating point for heading towards Rajamundry.

Around 5:30PM, we reached polavaram boating point and then travels guys arranged cab till Rajamundry railway station.

We reached station around 7:30PM, and we had train to Hyderabad around 10:00PM.

As we have time, we went an auto and went to pushkar ghat from railway station.

And we bought some putharekulu sweets as it is famous over there.

Our train got delayed and came around 11:45PM but shockinly we reached on time in Hyderabad.

Thus we are back to Hyderabad with great memories and experiences!!!

Sangi Temple - Gandipet Lake - Perfect Weekend Gateway!!!!

We started to Sangi Temple around 8:30 AM in the morning and reached Sangi Temple within 1hr of the journey.

Temple feels very peaceful but you will be finding some monkeys.

We have a great time at the temple and continued to Gandipet lake.

Relaxed and had lunch in the park near to lake.

Later we moved on to visit Lake, we need to cross bridge over the lake and there will be a park after crossing the bridge.

Later we went to the viewpoint.

At the backside of viewpoint, there will be open space where you can chill out.

And also there is Lord Siva temple down the hill.

We went back to the viewpoint to see the beautiful view of the sunset

Short but Awesome Trip!!!

Shirdi Trip - Perfect Weekend Gateway!!

A trip to Shirdi - Perfect Weekend Gateway from Hyderabad!!!

Day 1: 

We started from Hyderabad and reached Shirdi.

We had a darshan at Shirdi Sai Baba temple and took some rest.

Day 2:

We had a plan of traveling to Ajanta caves, the Mini Taj Mahal, Ellora Caves,Gruhaneshwar temple and Maruthi Temple.

Initially, we started to Mini Taj Mahal from Shirdi, we had a great time at early hours of the day.
I can't say it is as beautiful as Taj Mahal in Agra, but it is good.

After having a great time at the Mini Taj Mahal, we started to Ajanta Caves.

Ajanta Caves - Most Beautiful Caves I have ever seen, If you're a travel enthusiast, you will definitely like it as it is covered in a large area, and it takes almost half a day.

Explore Unexplored!!

We had some fun some fun shopping and continued to Badra Maruthi Temple.

And..continued to Ellora caves.

In Ajanta Caves, we will be having Buddha Stupa's whereas Ellora has Lord Siva Stupa's.

En route to Gruhaneshwara temple.

Day 3:

After a complete 2nd day, we had some rest and traveled to local places around Shirdi like Shani Signapur.

While going to Shani Signapur, you can find Sugar cane juice, you can stop and have a drink and you can continue to Shani Signapur.

Day 4:

We planned to go to Mukthidam, Nasik, Panchavati, and Triambakeshwar on our final day.

We started to Mukthidam- a must visit place where we can find all God's Stupas.

We continued to Nasik and Panchavati. In Nasik, you can have fun in boating.

Finally, we continued to Triambakeshwar.

In Triambakeshwar, you can find different linga when compared to other Shiva Temples.

And...en route to Shirdi and returned back to Hyderabad.

Such a great Trip!!!!!