An Unexplored destination -Purdal

Location of Purdal :

Purdal is a small village near Shimoga district , Karnataka which is 9.6 KM from shimoga city . This village is situated on the bank of river tunga badra and on the way towards Sagara.

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Purdal, a small village which is very rich in its natural beauty and very notable for its flora and fona. It is a calm place which hardly receives the tourists from places. Purdal has got a dam built over the subsidiary river Tunga Badra. The road leading to purdal with semi forest is treat to watch. There is a water reservoir to store the water from the nearby steep areas. It is a major water supplier for the village which is 8 KM from the Dam. Purdal temple, where the lord vinayaka is worshiped by whole of the village population is notable. This place has a very good scenic beauty and which is equally good for photography.

Purdal as a tourist destination:

·       It mainly attracts the adventure seekers who can take a nature walk to Purdal village from Shimoga and also Boating can be done .

·       It is a very good place for family outings because of its scenic beauty.

·       Old age people may visit the temples in purdal

·       It also attracts children for the sunset at the Dam.

·       It even attracts the bird watchers for the species of birds which are seen over there

·       Different species of Birds which are seen they are

Ø ROBIN

Ø SUN BIRD

Ø LAPWING

·       Purdal attracts all the category of people to its place.

Nearby places which could be visited :

Ø Lion safari

Ø Sakkare bayalu Elephant camp

Ø Shivappa Nayaka Palace

Ø Shettyhalli wild life sanctuary

Ø Tunga badra Dam

Ø Mendagadde Bird sanctuary

How to get into:

·       Frequent Buses from all over the districts to Shimoga districts of Karnataka

·       Nearest Railway Station and Bus stand is  at Shimoga city.

·       Nearest airport is Mangalore International airport .

·       From shimoga there are no frequent buses to the village ,there are only four busses/day.

·       Taxi is available from Shimoga city.

·       It can be reached in two ways, one towards Sagara another from Anupinakatte road.

Demerits of the place:

·       No proper transportation facilities.

·       No securities from the Police Department.

·       No proper route map which shows direction as well as information.

·       No accommodation or food facilities etc.

If the place is improved further it will be a perfect destination for tourists in Karnataka

Solo visit to Kashi, Saranath and Ramnagar fort.

KASHI which is now called as VARANASI was earlier called as BANARAS too. It is very famous all across the world for its holiness it always attracts millions of tourists every year. There is a strong belief that one doing Kashi yatra will definetly vanishes off the sins did by them in their life .

Moving towards KASHI brought a big smile on my face because it was the most awaited place in my list of places to be visited. There it was CHAURI CHAURA express which I boarded was at 9:10 P.M from ALLAHABAD towards VARANASI and the journey took 4 hr 30 min, which means it should have reached Varanasi at 1:35 A.M but the train got delayed for 1 hr 35 min and reached Kashi at 3:15 AM. It was also a boon for me that the delay of the train saved my money which I had to spend for lodge.

I nearly spent 2 hours at the railway station and was not so boring because a good company of a tea seller who had stayed in Karnataka for 15 years accompanied me at the station.

It was 5:30 AM when I started towards the KASHI VISWANATHA temple which took 15 min to reach the temple in a shared auto paying 25 INR. As I knew that there was a GANGA GHAT near the temple and it was more suitable for me to take bath as well as a holly dip. By taking bath in the holy river Ganga I entered into the temple 6 AM, there was a crowd helped me to enter the temple easily and have a great experience of  the rituals done over here.

This temple complex mainly consists of noteable two temples one is of ANNAPURNASHWARI and another is VISWANATHA. when I was out it was 7 AM, I drank a special Tea which is very famous because it will be served in CLAY POT it’s called as MADKA TEA. Then I had a task of searching my uncle’s house who had settled there 2 years before for his PHD at BHU, I had lots of time with me because I canceled my NEPAL trip due to bad climatic condition. So went in search of the house by walk and reached his house at 8:00 AM which was a great surprise for him. Here I got a best person who could guide me with all the places at and nearby Varanasi. He gave me a route map and some different Temples which is to be visited there. They were

·       KALA BAIRESHWARA

·       DURGA KUNDH

·       SANKATA MOCHANA HANUMAN TEMPLE

·       MRUTHUNJAYA TEMPLE

·       NEW BIRLA MANDIR AT BHU.

It took almost half a day to complete all these temples at VARANASI where u will not come across any difficulty for transportation. As it is well developed city which also includes Shopping Malls and PVR cinemas, I went to a movie there just to spend time. By evening reached a shopping street nearby to the VISHWANATHA TEMPLE and bought souvenirs for my family members. While moving I saw a board which was written in KANNADA language as JANGAMAVADI MUTT which is a guest house allotted for particular caste in Karnataka. It was 8 PM when I started back to my uncle’s place.

The 2^nd  day morning I had 2 places to be visited in my list they were,

·       SARANATH

·       RAMNAGAR FORT

SARANATH is almost 15KM from Varanasi where we are suppose to hair a taxi / bus / shared auto which takes 40mins approximately to reach Saranath. By the time I reached Saranath it was 10:30 AM  

PLACES TO BE VISITED IN SARANATH:

·       DEER PARK

·       JAPAN TEMPLE

·       TIBETIAN TEMPLE

·       ARCHYOLOIGICAL MUSEUM

·       SARANATH MUSEUM

·       DHAMEKH STUPA

·       BANARAS SAREE FACTORY

Among all these places SARANATH MUSIUM attracted me to the core where I saw our national emblem THE LION CAPITAL, ASHOKA CHAKRA, ASHOKA PILLER and etc.

Deer park is the place of Gouthama Buddha where he started his teachings of Buddhism initially. For all these places it took three and half hours.

It was the time to visit RAMNAGAR fort from SARANATH, I struggled a lot on my way because of very less availability of transportation from Saranath, but from Varanasi there are frequent busses. And finally reached the fort at 4:00 PM.

The Ramnagar fort is the oldest of its kind in India and also consist of a museum where one could find all the war equipments used by the kings during the major war times. Here the ticket coasted me 30 INR. From there I again came back to the city of VARANASI in a shared auto till BHU, from BHU reached my uncle’s place by 7 PM.

3^rd day early morning  had a holy dip in ASSI GHAT  which was nearby and visited the KASHI VISHVANATHA temple again. It was already 8:30 AM and my train towards HARIDWAR was at 9AM, but missed my DOON express and took a general ticket to DELHI and from Delhi reached HARIDWAR the 4^th day noon.

                                                                                         

Allahabad Triveni Sangama visit.

As you people know that travelling is my passion and even planning to take it as my profession it was a great opportunity for me to travel a holy place called ALLAHABAD  and increase my knowledge about  a particular destination.

 From Ayodhya i did not get a direct bus to Allahabad So from Ayodhya I had to travel to Faizabad in a shared auto by giving 15 rupees and its 20 KM far by the time i reached Faizabad it was 10 AM . From Faizabad i got a direct bus to Allahabad which almost took 2 hr 50 min  of journey and it was 1 noon when i reached Allahabad. (by bus it costed me 144 rupees) 

As it was afternoon it was too hot, my mobile phone recognized and warned that the temperature was 41 degree C. As it was hot i filled my stomach with 3 glasses of cold juice and started towards TRIVENI SANGAMA which is 18 KM from the railway station. I went to a nearby Auto stand and haired a auto towards the holy place TRIVENI SANGAMA (A PLACE WHERE ALL THREE HOLY RIVERS GANGA, YAMUNA AND SARASWATHI MEET EACH OTHER) 

As i had some idea that people of  Allahabad may exploit the tourist in many ways, I went in a shared auto like a local-lite  which costed me 25 rupees and helped me reaching  my Holy Destination ALLAHABAD TRIVENI SANGAMA. IT is believed that one can vanish his/her sins by having a holy dip in the sangama. I hardly did't know that i had to travel 20 more KM in the boat to reach the TRIVENI SANGAMA point, it was 2:30 PM, anyway i had time till 9 PM to board my train towards VARANASI so decided to go on a boat to get a holy dip in the sangama, i haired a boat alone for rupees 450, which is also available in sharing basis like, 100 or 150/person. As i was alone haired a separate boat. almost at 3:40 PM i was there in the Sangama with a Poojari (saint) who told me all the important facts of KUMBHAMELA which happened previous year ie,2013.

By conducting a pooja in the Sangama I Returned back at to the shore at 6:15 PM 

I saw a fort near the shore which was closed at that time, I filled my eyes with the beauty of the huge fort from outside and moved forward towards Railway station in a shared auto to catch my train which i had to board at 9 PM to my next Destination  VARANASI (KASHI).

way towards the SANGAM

ALLAHABAD FORT

me at boat towards SANGAM

person who took me in his boat 

view of ALLAHABAD FORT

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