Wild Pleasures at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
December 14, 2012 / 0 Comments


Wild Pleasures at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary

Visit Wayanad and come back totally enchanted and hypnotized. There is something so cherishable in this beautiful verdant paradise in South India that tours here never seem to end. The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary thus occupies a memorable place in the heart of every traveller and is a great place to visit on tours to this part often world in India. Popular as the habitat of the Asiatic elephant there is something very enigmatic about Wayanad and the sanctuary only goes to prove it further. Today Wayanad is considered to be the safest haven for tigers. In fact a recent tiger monitoring has said that this could perhaps be the place where you would get the larges tiger population in the southern part of India. This monitoring conducted by the forest department goes a long way to making Wayanad an accepted tiger paradise here. Karnataka’s  [...] 


Sangameswara Temple Pleasures and Pilgrimages
June 14, 2012 / 0 Comments


Sangameswara Temple Pleasures and Pilgrimages

The Sangameswara temple is a very ancient temple that has the presiding deity as Lord Siva and is located at the junction of the two rivers River Bhavanasi and the River Krishna. It is situated in the district of Kurnool and is near Muchumarri. The entire temple is a great place and has a place in the Skandapurana. When the Pandavas were in exile they wanted to pray to Lord Shiva and it was Bhima out of the Pandavas who was asked to bring a Siva Linga. When Bhima could not reach the penance place with the required Shiv Ling at the time specified it was Dharmaraja who got a Linga made out of a log of Neem installed. Popularly called the Pancheswaram or the amalgamation of around five temples, the complex has th Sidheshwaram, Sangameswaram, Kapileswaram, Malleswaram and Someswaram. The Sangameswara temple had the Srisailam Dam built near the  [...]