Weekend trip from Bengaluru

Bengaluru--Sringeri--Agumbe--Udupi--Dharmastala--Kukke--Bengaluru

Traveling is amazing if you have a good company. This time it was with 2 of my cousins. We just thought bangalore is heating up very much this summer and want to beat the heat by hanging out in some nature's beauty where we can chill out.

So meet the crew :

Nagarjun(L) with Kiran(and thats myself;) )(R)

Nagarjun(L) with Shreyas(R)

Plan :

Initial plan was to leave bangalore on friday evening and then visit Sringeri early in the morning, witness the temples and holy places there, later go to Agumbe and enjoy nature's beauty, which happpend accordingly and the rest of the tour was dynamically planned.

We hired a auto-guy in agumbe who helped us roam around that place.(That place was real nature's beauty)

Meet this auto-guy. (Took his permission to take his photo)

And his auto with his phone number (Took his permission to take this photo as-well)

Here are some of the photos which we captured, Nagarjun did take a lot of photos which i am missing now while writing this post.

The view from the top of the hill was breath-taking.

This is the very ancient temple on the hill.

Looks small but very very deep well.

Amazing is'nt it!! Looks like one of those children slides

Nagarjun and Shreyas busy boating !! (This photo was taken while boating so the photo quality got messed-up;))

After witnessing the world famous sunset point in Agumbe, we headed towards Udupi which is 55 Kms form Agumbe, there are of plenty local mini buses which ply from nearby places to Udupi via Agumbe.

Udupi . We visited Sri Krishna Temple and Madhwa Charya Matha there.
We got chance to see elephant moving the chariot of Lord Sri Krishna and then after evening Aarthi at 8.30 pm we went inside the temple for darshnam, we had a very good darshan and it was very blissful experience to see Lord Sri Krishna of Udupi, At that time of darshan, i was remembering the Madhurastakam which has the line in that as "...Udupiya Sri Krishna ..." It was a very good experience. On the day we visited it was Ekadashi, so we missed the chance to have dinner in temple.

Then next day we woke up early in the morning by 4.00 am and again went to temple to see Subrabatha seva to Sri Lord Krishna and we have again had a very good darshnam and also got a chance to see Abhishekam being perform to Lord Krishna.

Later we headed towards Dharmastala. Saw very famous Sri Dharmasthala Manjunateshwara Temple there. We had to stand in queue for quite some time there as we went during Maha neiveidya timings 11 - 12 noon.

There are many buses with lots of frequency from Dharmastala to Kukke. Went to Sir Kukke Subramanya Swamy temple and it was very pleasant evening, really had a very peaceful time.

We had a return booking from Kukke to Bangalore in KSRTC Airawat we just got in to the bus and by the time we opened our eyes we were in Majestic, Bangalore
Back home :)