Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Trip to Kukke, Dharmastala, Hornadu, Sringeri



A single day trip over a weekend. Four of us Kranthi, V Sairam , Satyanvesh and myself decided to go Kukke. We found that there are other attractions near by kukke which we should not miss.

We started on Saturday morning (20th Feb 2016) around 1 AM in a Indica cab. The route is Yashwantpur-Nelamangala-Hassan-Sakleshpur-Kukke.
We reached Kukke around 6:30 AM. It was a good time to visit the temple as the number of devotees were  less. We quickly finished our darshan in the temple shrine and immediately started towards Dharmastala.


The road to Dharmastala is fairly good. We reached the place at 9 AM. It was a big lane outside the temple but luckily we finished our darshan pretty quick. There was food arranged inside the temple complex but we were too early for that. Without wasting much time, we headed
towards Hornadu.

Hornadu is famous for Annapoorneshwari temple and is also famous for serving free food to all the devotees visiting the place. As soon as we reached, we first finished our lunch and started towards temple for darshan. It was a quick darshan inside the temple as the crowd was less.

The last place to be visited in the list is Sringeri. Reached this place by evening around 5 PM. As all of us were hungry we had snacks just outside the Matt. We spent good amount of time inside the
Matt. There was a musical program being performed in the auditorium. This place has a nice view of the river flowing next to it. Since our driver wanted to take some rest, we spent some extra time inside the premises.

We started back to Bangalore around 7:30 PM. We could not travel continuously as the driver was tired and wanted to take rest for some time.
Finally we reached our home around 3 AM  on Sunday. Every thing went on well  according to the plan and we reached home safe.