Bangalore to Dharmasthala on Car
It was a religious trip with my mom on my Baleno Car after service done, my friends warned about trip require's proper braking service because of Ghats journey..
We have a started at 6 AM from home,Since i was new to NH 75 i was driving slowely to double check with local people on my route .I have already save offline my route from Bangalore to Subramanya since i was traveling on the Ghats may my mobile network go on.
As per my friends suggestion i have traveled on the NH-75
Bangalore - Kunigal - Channarayapattana - Hassan - Sakleshpur - Subrahmanaya - Dharmasthala
NH 75 roads are four lane with tolls,My friends suggested to stop over Tatta idly shop but my mom was not keen at early 7 AM , so i have stopped at UPsouth Highway restaurant, where we had breakfast by 8:10 AM at its OK OK with nice atmosphere with good and clean rest room.
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| Bangalore to Kukke Subrahmanya and Dharamsthala |
Road's are really good till Hasan, After Hasan there plenty of Big Tree's cutting to expand the road,Hassan to Sakleshpur slightly have to be careful . Since Sakelshpur had lot of Coffee estate. Try to stop and have Coffee or Buy Estate Coffee powder.I suggest to take break here because Ghats driving quite challenging because of Tanker's and lorries which use to carry GAS/Petrol from Mangalore. I have reached Kukke Subrahmanya by 11:10 AM. I have checked the Temple Trust Lodge's . But all the information on the hoarding will be in Kannada language it might be good if they kept in English as well. Some what i got the room and we kept few thing in the room ,we left to temple since Kukke Subrahmanya temple will be closed by 1:30 PM. So we went but huge crowd. it took 1 hour to see Subrahmanya for 2 minutes.
We had our Lunch near to temple average food,After food we have started to State High ways from Subrahmanya to Dharmasthala Manjuthaesware temple which is 53 km from origin . while traveling from Subrahmanya to Dharmasthala i felt i was traveling in Kerala village most of them similar atmosphere , I have reached Dharmasthala by 3 PM,But temple will be closed by 2:30 PM. Climate is really Hot and to much dehydration because of weather.
Even from Bangalore to Dharmasthala weather was hot and humidity.
Dharmasthala Management Board kept information to tourist or devotee in English/Tamil/Kannada/Hindi should be appreciated.
We have gone through common queue dharshan which is opened by 3:30 PM and big queue you have to cross to see the Manjuthaeswara swamy came out by 5 pm and started return to Kukke Subrahmanya, Sowthadka Sri Maha Ganapathi Temple was there which his 18 km from Dharmasthala.
I have took SH 37 from Dharmasthala to Kukke Subrahmanya which is state road.
I have reached Kukke by 7 pm and we have stopped near to temple to buy for our family member..most of the toys much expensive and my friends told to have food at temple,me and mom thought of trying there even i can see lot wealthy people also standing in the queue, really good sign from the devotee and appreciate the temple trust for this.
Second day early morning by 6:30 am visited to local river(kumaradhara river) really clean and went to temple though its Sunday very less people so we had quick dharshan by 9:30 am we checked out from the lodge.
We had our breakfast near to temple and started to Bangalore
Subramanya - Sakleshpur - Hassan - Channarayapattana - Bangalore
I have reached my Home by 2:00 am,though climate his hot and my mom had divine experience .
