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Ragigudda Sri Prasanna Anjaneya temple located in Jayanagar dedicated to Lord Hanuman.  One of the must visit places in Namma Bengaluru. One can spend quality time around this place. This temple is not only dedicated to Sri Anjaneya Swamy, even Lord Shiva, Rama, Sita, Lakshmana temple is  in the same premises. Entrance of the temple is very attractive and welcomes every one with a huge Gardua statue.  The temple is well maintained by the comity. The temple is situated on a hillock. There is a smaller temple dedicated to Ganesha, Navagrahas and Rajarajeshwari at the base of the hillock. The temple also plays host to the holy trinity of the Hindu's engraved on huge rocks at the side of the temple. As per the legend, it is believed that the hillock which hosts the main deity Sri Prasanna Anjaneya Swamy was formed from a heap of Ragi Millet and hence was termed "Ragigudda". When this incident happened, The Thrimurthies, Lord Brahma, Vish...

When ever i passed infront of this palace i wanted to visit once and click couple of pics inside this palace. This palace is just couple of minutes walk from KR market metro station (near Kalasipalyam) next to the Sri Venkataramana Temple. This palace is open for visitors from 8.30 AM to 5.30 PM. Entrance fee is Rs.15 for Indian citizens and Rs.200 for foreigners. Within one hour we can cover this palace. History about palace: Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, is a good   example of Indo-Islamic architecture is within the prescient of   the Bangalore Fort. It was used as a summer residence by Tipu Sultan. It was Hyder Ali who commenced the construction of this palace, but it was completed in 1791 by his son Tipu. Though it seems like a one storied pillared pavilion, it is actually a double storied building of symmetrical plan, typical of this style of architecture. Built on a stone plinth, the facade has gigantic fluted pillars in wood with stone bases, that support h...

Magadi Ranganatha Swamy temple is one of the weekend gateways around Namma Bengaluru. Temple is located around 50Kms away from Bengaluru. History of Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple: The main idol of the god in this temple is facing West, Hence the name Paschima Venkatchalapathy, Magadi is also called as Dakshina Tirupathi which means south Tirupathi. It is said that Lord Ranganatha swamy statue size is growing year by year, so it also called as Beleyo Ranganatha swamy. While coming back from Savandurga we visited this temple. Many movies were shooted around this temple. Other places around Magadi are, Savandurga & Thippagondanahalli (T.G.Halli).   In a single day we can cover all these places, but if your planning for Savanduraga trekking its suggested to start early morning and get down by 11.00 Am and while coming back to Bengaluru we can visit other places. 

Hemavathy dam (also called as Gorur Dam) one of the must visit places around Hassan, which offers a beautiful view to the visitors. The sight is more attractive when the gates of the reservoir are open and the water gushes down in a lovely manner. When gates are closed, it’s not suggested to visit this place. Best time to visit this place is monsoon and we were lucky enough to visit this beautiful place on the rite time. From Hassan its around 25Kms away (around 205 Kms away from Bengaluru) and roads are too good to reach this wonderful place. Even we can stop on the way in couple of places to see the beauty of Dam’s back water. While coming back from Mudigere we planned to visit this place, It took around 30 mins to reach Gorur from Hassan but spent more time park our vehicle because of huge crowd. From main entrance we need to walk a quite distance to reach the gates. There is no entrance fee to enter the Reservoir. To capture the beauty of water flow in on...

Drive in monsoon will be always awesome, but with the bunch of crazy people it will be even more fun. When we decided for a long drive, we thought of some places which are around Chikkamagaluru. Since over we decided for long drive in a last minute, challenge was to get a decent home stay for our trip. Even though we have n-number of home stays around Chikkamagaluru spent some time to get one. Finally we booked Robusta Valley Stay (Contact number 099866 28555). Homestay is around 35 away from Chikkamagaluru and very much close to Mudigere. Mudigere is around 255 Kms away from Bengaluru. Considering the road conditions we can reach this place easily with in 5 hours. Started early morning on Saturday, and plan was to have delicious Tuppa Dose in Gajanana Hotel – Haasan on the way. Since Karan had been many times before and suggested this place for breakfast. One should taste Dose at this place whenever you are around Haasan.   It’s not the same taste of Dose, It’s totally dif...