Thursday, December 15, 2011

Travel: Hyderabad-Srisailam Nagarjunasagar-Hyderabad trip

I went on this trip, Hyderabad-Srisailam Nagarjunasagar-Hyderabad, on 10-11 December, 2011.

Wonderful experience...feel for yourself.

- Almost good motoroble roads
- Beautiful 40 kms of ghat section before Srisailam and 50 kms after Srisailam towards NSD.
- Awesone and magnificient dams of which NSD is the largest in India
- Wonderful boat ride to Nagarjuna Konda island in NSD and the buddhist settlements museum
- Thrilling cable car to Pathalaganga in Srisailam
- Astonishing depth of NSD...595 feet average and 700 feet at places
- Nerve racking 80 KMPH speed in the ghat roads
- Motoring on a high bridge opposite the dams in Srisailam and NSD
- Ettipothala falls - surprising as to where the waters come from. Not a clue, but falls magnificiently

Route:
Hyderabad - Shamshabad airport - Srisailam...240 Kms
Srisailam - Macherla - Nagarjunasagar...175 Kms
Nagarjunasagar - Hyderabad...160 Kms

Accommodation:
URL: http://aptdc.in/home/intro.php
Contact: 08524288311, 287411 Hotel Haritha, Srisailam, RS.1400

Sightseeing:
Srisailam: Dam, Mallikarjuna temple, Brahmaramba temple, Paladhara, Panchadhara, Sikharam, Sakshi Ganapathy, Patalaganga ropeway, Boating, Forest safari

Nagarjunasagar: Boating to Konda, Rcheological museum, Ethipothala, Crocodile park, Boating

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