Srisailam is a holy town in the Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh. It is on banks of the Krishna River. Sri Sailam Dam constructed across the Krishna River in the border of Mahabubnagar District. Telangana State. and Kurnool Dist, A.P It is the 3rd Largest capacity hydro electric project in the country. Srisailam temple and town located on a 452 meters high hill in the Nallamalla forest.
A Group of Eight friends Azam, Narendhar, Ravi, Samar, Fayaz, Athiq, Raghavendra, Raghu are decided to take a road trip on four Bikes from Gadwal to Srisailam. It is about 230 km from Gadwal, Mahabubnagar Dist. The road to Srisailam is peppered with small towns and villages.we also planned to stay one night there.
We started our journey from Gadwal at 2:30 pm. After just 28 km we taken a break for lunch in a Restaurant at Pebbair. Because some of my friends had not lunch. Then we started our road trip to Wanaparthy. we crossed this and entered Achampet via Bijinepally and Nagarkurnool towns. At Achampet we have taken a Tea Break around 6:00 pm after half an hour journey through Nallamalla Forest we again stopped our Bikes at Munnanur. There is a Museaum which maintained by the Government of A.P. There we had some snacks and tea after these we continued our drive to down the winding ghat roads to the lower bridge.
" The Drive was amazing , the Dam site and valley view points are very Good"
Finally at 9:30pm we reached Srisailam at that time all of us are hungry. we find a hotel and had dinner with tasty food. The quantity was enough for us. we made our first halt and we planned for one night stay at hotel rooms so we drive another 10km for best hotel. after pay the room rent we check in in two rooms for eight members.
On early morning we checkout our hotel rooms and we reached in the premises of the temple. Our friends went for Darshan and came out from temple with Prasadam.
After having light tiffin we started our drive for local sight seeing. sometimes we stop our bikes at ghat roads of Dam and tried to capture the beauty of Dam from different angles. At Paladhara Panchadhara only I am and Ravi, Fayaz, Narendhar down the stairs and saw a natural waterfall. this place is very beautiful with plenty of banyan trees all around these waterfalls. A place where it is said that Adi Shankaracharya meditated for a year.
Further we drives to Mahabaleshwaram Temple which is on the way of our trip. we spent one hour on the premises of Anjaneyaswamy temple. This temple located on the exactly center of the hill. From here we can saw this beautiful greenery and wild animals also.
we made our return journey to Gadwal. At evening we taken a small break at Wanaparthy and reached directly to Gadwal.
"This is the first time I have visited a place on the bike. It was pleasant experience. It seemed to me that this journey pressed the refresh button of my life and bring back the freshness. It is a must visit place for adventure seekers and nature lovers."
