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After visiting Gandikota and Belum Caves came back to Kadiri, there was not much plan for our remaining days stay at Kadiri and my cousin told about this place which is around 26Kms Kadiri.  Thought it’s better to visit this place than sitting ideal at home.  Started towards big banyan tree and took almost 40 minutes to reach our destination. Was in assumption that even this place will be well maintained as in Bengaluru, but it is not!   Even though its a worlds biggest banyan tree its not well maintained and visitors are not allowed to go near the tree like in Bengaluru. The tree is totally covered by fens. Visitors are only allowed to visit the temple near this place. To visit this temple they will charge Rs.5/- per person. About Thimmamma Marrimanu tree: The Thimmamma Marrimanu tree , located in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh , is located about 25 km from Kadiri town . The tree's branches spread over a land of 5 acres and it...

After visiting Belum caves we headed words Gandikota which is around 60Kms, took almost one hour to reach the place. We were very lucky on this day, actually I was expecting lot of hot at this place. But for our luck it was raining from the morning and when we got down from our car rain was stopped.  Even though we were visiting at this place around 12.30 in noon didn’t encounter the heat which was expecting. Once we reached the Gandikot it was a rear experience which we faced, we were allowed to drive through the fort which won’t be the case in all other forts! There is a small village inside the fort and the roads are very narrow and should be careful while driving. If you choose to walk from the entrance it will be a stressful walk for sure! Inside the fort there is a Madhavaraya Temple followed by Jama Masjid. My preference was to see the Canyon which was the main centre of attraction. Need to walk for some distance over rocks to reach the edge and fitness t...

First time when I saw the pics of this place I was very much impressed about the place and could not believe that they are so near to Namma Benagaluru. Later started gathering more information about some other places around Gandikota to plan for a trip, at this point of time came to know about one more must visit place Belum Caves. Started our journey from Kadri early morning and it was around 3 hours journey from Kadri, plan was to visit Belum caves which is around 150 Kms from Kadri first and while coming back visit Gandikota. If we start from Kadri we can cover both the places easily in one single day.    Belum caves will be open for visitors from morning 10.00AM to 5.00 PM and entry fee is Rs.65/- and for children it is Rs.45/-  Reached Belum caves at the right time, we were the second group to enter the caves and got a perfect chance to click the pics 😊 History of Belum caves: Though these caves were known to the locals for thousands ...