Saturday, November 19, 2011

Trip to Places arround Chitradurga

Chitradurga is district place in Karnataka and is about 200KM from Bangalore.
Places to see arround Chitradurga:
  • Vani Vilas Sagar
  • Jogimatti reserved forest
  • Aadu Malleshwara Mini Zoo.
  • Chandavalli Thota
From Bangalore, head towards Pune (Take NH4 Highway) and after driving about 150KM, enter Hiriyur. From Hiriyur, take service road next to highway and drive for about 3KM in the service road till you get some arch. From the arch, take deviation from Service road (Take Left) and drive about 14-20KM to reach Vani Vilas Sagar.

Vani Vilas Sagar is also known as Maari Kanive. This dam is built by Mysor Scion.
The Dam is well built and architecture is marvellous.
Location is beautifull and good place to spend time with family.

Few of the snaps captured at the location:






There is IB mentained by governement and if we have prior booking and reservation from Irrigation department, we can stay overnight and spend day.

From Vani Vilas Sagar, head back to Hiriyur and after reaching Arch near NH4 highway, take left and head towards chitradurga. Chitradurga is abut 40-50KM from Hiriyur.


Chandavalli Toota:
It's about 4 KM from Main Chitradurga City. Take Holalkere road and after driving about 2 KM, take left and it will lead to Chandavalli Toota.

Here there is a small temple and cave. Better to carry a torch to visit the Cave and explore properly.

Chitradurga Fort:
It's in the heart of Chitradurga city and built in 15th Century. It was under Vijayanagar Empire in the beginning and later ruled by Nayaks and Hydera ali.

Better to visit Fort in the morning arround 7 AM. There are some temples and ponds inside the fort.
  • Gopala Swami temple and Honda
  • Akka Tangi honda
  • Obavvana Kindi
  • Gali Gopur (Hawa Mahal)
  • Sampige Sidda Temple
  • Tuppada Kola
Below picture shows the places to be seen in the fort and route map:


Some of the snaps captured inside Fort:







When we vistited Fort, the common problem observed is, people throw the bottles and plastics all arround the places (Though there are many dust bins every where).
This was comment raised by one of the Cleaning staff inside the Fort and they have to walk arround the fort and collect the plastics and bottles.

Note: As a kind request, requesting tourists to keep the environment clean. Don't throw the bottles and plastic.

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