After exploring shravanabelagola we
headed towards Nuggehalli, since we started early we explored the two hills of shravanabelagola
early and stated towards our next destination.
Nuggehalli, very lesser known place, which
is around 28 Kms from shravanabelagola. It took us around 35 minutest to reach.
Its quite a remote place better to approach localities to find out this place
rather than sticking to google maps.
Nuggehalli is very lesser known place situated
in Hassan district. It is 16 kms northeast of channarayapatna & 16 kms hiresave
on NH 47 & is very close to shravanabelagola (28Kms). The deviation to both
nuggehalli & Sravanabelogola is from hiresave & one could reach nuggehalli
from shravanabelagola within 35 to 40 mins.
By the time we reached this place, it was
almost lunch time and didn’t find any visitors around this place. Thought temple
might have closed for lunch break, but it was open and spent some time clicking
the pics around this temple.
About nuggehalli temple:
The historical temple of Sri Lakshmi
Narasimha at Nuggehalli belonging to 11th century Hoysala period architecture
is a must visit place of tourist/cultural importance. The sculptures in the
temple tease the mind with a beauty that would linger in one’s mind for ages.
These wonderful temples come under the purview of the Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI) and they have classified these as the “Living Temple – Monument”,
(which are very few in number) wherein the pooja to the Almighty is being
performed uninterrupted from day one. This classification is given to about 50
odd temples in India. Karnataka is indeed fortunate to have quite a few of
these temples which have a Great & Hoary past.
Once we clicked couple of photos around
this temple we headed towards Markonahalli Dam.
Stopped for lunch, we have plenty of
options on this highway for lunch. Once we had lunch we reached Markonahalli
around 3.00 PM. From nuggehalli this dam is around 58 Kms towards Bengaluru.
In the year 1940, the then Maharaja of
Mysore had assigned Sir M Vishveshwaraiah to build a dam across Shimsha river
which is one of the tributaries of Cauvery. This is one of the beautiful dam built
by Sir M Vishveshwaraiah. There is enough space for car parking, but not
specific place! One should climb few steps to reach the top of the dam. Once we
climb up it gives a beautiful panoramic view of the backwaters.
Sunset is the
main attraction of this place, but the day was bit cloudy and we were not in a
mood to wait till 6.00 pm we headed back to Bengaluru after spending some time
around this dam.
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