Friday, December 27, 2019

Melukote and Thonnur Lake Trip

Melukote is one of the alluring and photogenic places near to Bangalore, which always invite travellers to visit it and enjoy its serene beauty and divine destination. After planning for this place a number of times in past, I could finally visit it before the end of this year. We hit the highway early morning and soon we took diversion for Hassan road in Neelamangla. After two hours’ drive, we halted at a restaurant to recharge ourselves with delicious south Indian breakfast. After a good hot cup of tea, we started again and soon reached to the small sleeping town Melukote. 


A decent crowd was moving towards renowned “Yoga Narsimha temple” which is at hill. As our group had elders, we skipped it and moved to the Kalyani. It is one of the largest Kalyani we saw. Kalyani has a spectacular view. In addition to Kalyani, Melukote has a number of small manmade water body to restore rain water. It is one of the wonderful engineering to conserve the water naturally. From Kalyani we moved to “Raya Gopura”. This is one of the unfinished structures but being situated at height, provide a mighty view of stunning surroundings. This is a perfect place for photoshoot. A number of Bollywood songs and local movie filmized here. We went up on the Gopura to have a better view of the vicinity. 


We visited Cheluvanaryana Swamy temple on the foothills of Raya Gopura. After spending few good hours in Melukote, we started our journey to Thonnur Kere. About half an hour drive away from Melukote, this is a huge lake. We spent some time here and enjoyed the enormity of it. Place is decently crowded. We made our way back to the city now. Drive on the road is scenic with good eateries and fresh breeze make the drive more memorable.




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