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SriSailam - Malikarjuna Jyotirlingam (2nd Jyotirlingam)

Our Next Jyotirlingam at Srisailam.

Srisailam, a hill town in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh is home to the Malikarjuna Jyotirlingam or Sri Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Temple and also as one of the eighteen Shakti Peetham of goddess Parvati.

This is trip planned during August 11th - 13th,2023. 

Me and My friend started from Chennai, We don't have direct connectivity by road or train to Sirsailam, So we decided to go Vijayawada by Train. So we booked train(12656) Navajivan Exp from Chennai Central to Vijayawada on 3rd Class AC but i wont recommend this route. If you are planning Train try to book for Marakpur Station or Ongole which is close to SriSailam.

We had reached Vijayawada at 5 PM on 11th 2023. Since we don't have our lunch at train. We thought of having at Vijayawada because our bus around 9.30 PM, We also though of exploring Vijayawada, So I have checked my friend, So he recommended to visit Kanaka Dura(Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Temple) really must visit temple if you are exploring Vijayawada.

We don't have any AC bus from Vijayawada to SriSailam normal semisleeper available from Andhra Transport. Journey is not pleasant one and we reached SriSailam around 2:50 PM itself but due to restriction on reserve forest. we forced to stay in bus till 6 AM but there is lot of Tea shops available for your refreshment.

We have reached SriSailam around 7.30 AM on 14th Aug 2023 but Ghats road really scary one. We took bath at Krishna river. you can utilize the Rope car and boating in Krishna River which is cost of  Rs.80/- only

We booked 12 pm Sparsha Darshanam which is cost of Rs.500/- per person, I will recommend to every one, They will allow you to touch Lingam. You will feel some good vibe.

It took 2 hours to complete the darshan. We had our Lunch at Temple really good food. We had enough time after darshan, we are exploring local things and taking rest and our bus at 7:30 PM to SriKalahasti.

We reached SriKalahasti 7.30 AM 15th Aug 2023 we took bath at hotel which is close to Temple. Srikalahasti know .....

Chennai(India) to Srilanka(Colombo,Galle,Ella,Kandy)

 

Itinerary 

• 28th Jun - Flight delay 1 hour (Chennai Airport - Colombo Airport)
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• 28th Jun - Colombo Airport - Galle Fort(Sirene Galle fort,Taxi-Kwid car - Rs.18200/-(Colombo to Galle Fort )

• 29th Jun - Galle Fort,Jungle Beach,(Hotel - Rs.39410/-)
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• 30th Jun - Galle to Ella (Taxi - Rs.22000/- ,Hotel - 7500/-)
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• 30th Jun - Ravana Water Falls,Ravana Cave and Nine Arches Bridges
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• 1st July - Ella - Kandy(Train - 2400/-(4*600),Hotel Room - 14000/- )
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• 2nd July - Kandy local sightseeing(Murugan Temple,Buddist Temple)
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• 2nd July - Kandy - Negumobo (Taxi - Rs.14000/-)
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Food

• 2nd July - Negumobo - Colombo Airport(Taxi)
• 3rd July - Colombo - Chennai - 12:45 AM fight 
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*Above mentioned Rupees is Srilankan Rupee.

Budget Per Person:

Flight Ticket + Visa(20 dollar) = Rs.16000/-

Travel Expenses = Rs.15250/-

Total = Rs.31250/-

Chennai to Shirdi with kids(religious trip)...coming soon

Chennai to MadhyaPradesh[Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga(3), Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga(4)].....coming soon

Spiritual Trip with my Friend (Palani).

Me and My Friend thought of visiting 12 Jyotirlingam, thought of exploring best way to accommodate the travel plan.

Our first decision to explore Madhya Pradesh to visit Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar because both in and around 200 km. So we can complete during our Weekend time.

Earlier myself and friend covered Rameswaram (Pamban,TamilNadu), Trimbakeshwar(Trimbak,Maharashtra) with our family.

There is lot of option to reach Indore like Train and Air.

We opted for Air travel to save our time. So we have booked IndiGO flight but direct flight bit costlier, so we have booked connecting flight, Chennai to Nagpur 21^st April 2023, Friday (Boarding Time: 5:05 PM and Departure 5:50 PM)  1 :10 hr layover in Nagpur and Nagpur to Indore on 21^st April 2023,Friday (Boarding Time : 8:00 PM and Departure 8:45 PM ) so total 4 hours 5 minutes. We had our dinner at Nagpur Airport itself and We have also reached Indore on time. 

We thought of taking Auto (Tuk Tuk) to Bus station to reach Mahakaleshwar, Ujjain Since we both have difficult in Hindi language. When we came out from Airport you can notice lot Auto rikshaw and Cab. We also thought of taking Cab to Ujjain if time became issue because its already 10 PM. We have approached few Auto drivers but some of asked bigger price, since we are new to city, we are clueless and finally one guy agreed for Rs.200/- to drop at bus station but he is looking for other as well. 

I am not comfortable with guy was looking for another Auto, he came started vehicle ask to sit and journey started, he started asking questions like where you from and where you going i am bit skeptical but i have told we are going to Ujjain to See Mahakaleshwar his reaction got changed he started your going to visit our Mahakaleshwar. 

He stopped us in the bus stand and he started saying from here you get bus we bit confused. He later saying "you didn't trust me, if you want, I can drop at Ujjain we bit surprised because from Indore to Ujjain almost 50 km. We also feel not safe but he stayed few minutes to convince us and he quoted Rs.1000/- for trip which we had earlier in mind in travel, I started negotiating him Rs.700/- he agreed with amount of Rs.900/- it was good deal on midnight that to 50 + kilometer with unknown city, we assumed auto driver native might be Ujjain so he is dropping on the go. it will be good deal both of us but surprise he came to drop us i asked why he said "You came to See our God" I feel bad myself because initial thought about Auto driver is not good but later he drove 50 kilometer drop, from start we are scared on drive because its national highway, we are using our google map to confirm he is driving to Ujjain only and i am pretty sure, he won’t get return journey passenger because its midnight 12:00. 

What to say "Mahakaleshwar with us " .City is active during night itself we had Gulfi ice wow ..Simply wow. This trip is not planned one. We thought of looking for Hotel since its already 12 PM we didn't get easily.

 we thought of walk round and find Hotel which close to temple but room is not good, We asked other option so he gave ground floor its big one at Rs.1700/- after negotiating since room alteration going but we are ok with the budget and we are close temple.

 

Our first activity to talk bath Holy water