After spending some relaxed time in Maravanthe Beach we headed towards Murudeshwar which is around 50 KMs from
Maravanthe. Even though the distance
looks small in number easily it will kill the time, because narrow road.
Expanding the road work is in progress and not sure how long it will take to
complete.
Took almost 2 hours to reach Murudeshwar from
Maravanthe and while entering the Murudeshwar only we came to know the effect
of long weekend. We missed one small turn and cost more than 30 minutes to
reach hotel which we booked.
Finally reached our destination and freshen up
fast and headed towards temple for Darshana. Hotel guy informed us that temple
will be closed from 1.00 PM to 3.00 PM and its good to finish lunch and go to
temple around 3.30 or 4.00 to avoid huge crowd.
Finished our lunch and headed towards temple,
since there was nothing much to do for rest of the day parked our car and went
to temple by walk. Even traffic was in very bad shape and felt walk would be
better option.
About
Murudeshwar:
Murudeshwar is a small town in the state of
Karnataka and is famous for the world’s second-tallest Shiva statue.
Murudeshwar temple is a well known pilgrimage centre surrounded by Arabian sea
on its 3 sides.
The Rajagopura at the entrance of the Temple
complex is the world's tallest, standing at 249 feet. This is the newly added
masterpiece and inaugurated in May 2008. The Gopura has 22 floors and is the
only Gopura to be fitted with elevators. To take the elevator one will be
changed Rs.10/-
Looking at the crowd we dropped our plan of
taking the elevator, even we dropped a plan of getting into the water and after
Darshana we were roaming around the temple just clicking the pics.
I was particularly looking for one frame under
lights for that we waited for more than 2 hours! But after looking at the pics
felt the wait was worth 😊
Better to avoid these places during long
weekend, particularly if you are traveling for photography! Since it was a last
minute plan just sticked to it and captured the pics which we can.
After a round of shopping around headed back to
hotel, fished our dinner and it was time for a much needed rest.
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