Bike trip to Srisailam

I love to travel and explore new places. I often go to new places with my friends for fun and adventure. So we decided go to Srisailam which is a holy place about 250 km from Hyderabad. This place is famous for the temple of Lord Shiva. You can find the details about the place on net so I am not going in detail about that. Here I am giving the fun we had during the road trip on our bikes.

Hyderabad to Srisailam (Saturday, December 18, 2010)

We started at about 9am from Hyderabad. We were six people (Me, Ashish, Aditya, Pankaj, Prateek and Rahul) with three bikes. We all are good friends from last few years. We took some necessary stuffs considering the weather and time required for whole trip. We took the road map in our cellphones and had an idea about the road we have to follow.

It took about an hour to reach Shamshabad Airport which is about 50 km from the city. There we filled the tanks with 6 liter petrol in each bike. From the airport, Srisailam is exactly 196 km. The road was nice for driving. After 20 km from Airport, the 6 lane highway transformed into 2 lane road. But it was nice road and we didn't faced any problem because of very less traffic. The road was full of trees on both side and we enjoyed our rides.

Srisailam Highway

We reached Kundukur, a small village at about 11.35 am. This place was about 25 km from Shamshabad.

At 11.51 am we were in Kadthal, 9 km from Kundukur.

At 12.30 we reached Amangal, 16 km from Kadthal, Srisailam is about 150 km from Amangal.

At about 1 pm we took a break to give some rest to bikes and ourselves. We clicked some photographs meanwhile.

On the highway about 120km from Srisailam at 1.33 pm

At 2.05 pm we reached Dindi. This place is about 100 km from Srisailam. We all were hungry so we went to a small hotel for lunch. After lunch we started again. After few minutes we found a lake called Dindi Reservoir. There was a small dam on the lake and some people were fishing there.

Dindi Reservoir

After clicking some photos at Dindi, we resumed our journey. Srisailam was still 100 km away. After sometimes the landscape around us started changing. We were able to see the mountains of the Nallamala Forest. We were entering the forest.

After some kilometers we entered into the forest. There was a check-post  with some police officials. One can enter only between 6 am to 9 pm. We went through at about 3.30 pm. Suddenly we observed fall in temperature as the greenery around us increased. We had jackets to keep us warm. 

At about 4.20 pm we were at a village which is about 50 km before Srisailam. There is a waterfall which could be reached by following a road through the village. It was a dirty road. The village was really a "village". No electricity...nothing. Only poor people, mostly farmers, live there.

There were farmlands on both sides of the 8km of dirty road. During initial few kilometers we saw some houses. After that there was nothing. The dust on the road spoiled our cloths. They were looking yellowish.

Farms on the sides of road.

Road to the waterfall

It took 20 min to reach there. Then we saw a board with the name of the waterfall. It was "Mallelatheertam Waterfalls", definitely tough to pronounce.

There are some steps inside a valley to reach the waterfall. The moment we saw the waterfall, we forgot all the pain we took to reach there. It was literally beautiful. The whole place was surrounded by mountains. We were running towards it to get a closer look.

The water was so cold. But we couldn't stop ourselves to get wet. We enjoyed the water falling from a height of about 250 ft. We were dancing and yelling like crazy people. Had really good time.

Srisailam was still 60 km away.  We decided that we won't stop in middle. It was 5.45 pm and soon it was dark. We covered first 30km quickly coz road was good and straight. But later part was really tuff. Roads were curvy which reduced our speed. Finally we reached Srisailam at 7.30 pm.

At Srisailam

We were exhausted. We booked rooms in a lodge for the night. We had dinner went to bed to get some sleep.

Next morning we woke up early for darshan. We were in the queue at 6.15 am. The temple was big. Pilgrims were chanting "Om Namah Shivay" and other slogans. We got darshan of Lord Shiva within an hour. Then we had breakfast of idli and dosa.