SOUTH AND NORTH KANARA TOUR FOR A WEEK

This tour with family for a week was planned by road and my second son had to drive all the way and started on 01 04 2022 early morning from Bangalore and returned to Bangalore on 08 04 22 afternoon.  This had all the aspects, namely having darshan at temples, enjoying in Malpe Beach in Udupi and Beach at Murdeshwar and also Gokak falls and further actively involved in learning the historic significance of the sculpting works in Badami, Pattadakall and Aihole.

Dharmathsthala, Horanadu, Naravi, Kateel, Malpe beach of udupi, Krishna and other temples of Udupi, Kollur Mookambika Devi temple, Murdeshwar, Idagunji, Gokarna, Sirsi, Belgavi, Badami and around and also Harihara and Davangere are the places covered in the tour.

01 04 22            

Started early morning and had Dharshan of Sree Manjunatha at Dharmathsala and also took the Annaprasada there and moved to Horanadu and had darshan of Sree Annapoorneswari late evening and stayed at Horanadu.

02 04 22         

Ugadi day. Early morning vacated the hotel and moved to Sringeri to darshan of Sree Sharadambal.  We did not stay there to get the blessing of the Acharya  Swamigal which will be in the afternoon or evening.  Thus started at 09.30 am  after having breakfast there in the nearby hotel and moved to Naravi and was at 11.00 am and had divya darshan of Sree Suryanarayanaswami.   There was not much of a crowd here and thus we left for Kateel from there and was at 12.30 pm.  Large number  of devotees had gathered there and still we had darshan at this temple with half an hour in queue.  Proceeding from there to Malpe Beach  resort we had booked a room and on the way, we had a lunch at MTR1924 near Udupi.   Taking rest until 5 pm, we enjoyed in the Malpe seashore for an hour and half and then proceeded to Sree Balaramar temple which is just 700 metres from the beach.  The Balarama Vigragha was the one taken along with Sree   Krishna by Guru Madhwacharyar.  A small but beautiful temple and around 15 people had gathered for darshan at that time and followers of ISKON were  doing Bhajan at that time.  Proceeded to Udupi and had a late evening darshan   at Sree Anantheswara, Sree Chandramouleeshwara and Sree Krishna.  We were fortunate to see the temple car procession and some family members also drew  the Ther for some distance.   We were in the queue for around 40 minutes to have darshan of Lord Krishna through the Nava dhwara.  Had tiffin in the night  at Mitra samaj near the temple at around 08.45 pm which was the closing time of the hotel and returned to place of stay.

                                                      Sree Suryanarayana temple Naravi

Sree Durgaparameshwari temple Kateel

Udupi Sree Krishna Temple

03 04 22

The complimentary breakfast in the Hotel was taken and proceeded to Sree Mookambika temple at Kollur.   Though we reached at 11.20 hours, we stood in the normal queue and waited for the darshan of the Devi at finally had darshan at 12.50 hrs.  There is a Rs.100/- Queue for Special Darshan.  This helped us to see the procession taken for the afternoon pooja around the temple which was  very near to the Queue, including Goddess in the Ratha and in Palanquin taken  around arranged by some of the devotees. We proceeded to Murdeshwar and had our Lunch at Hotel Kamath at Murdeshwara.  After settling in the Hotel booked there and having rest for an hour, we went to the Murdeshwar temple as also enjoyed the seashore at  Murdeshwar. Children would enjoy this seashore with horse and camel riding, Power boats, skidive and also one can go to the Islands a little away from the shore.  The dinner was also at the Kamats'. 

04 04 22        

Reaching early Murdeshwar previous evening, gave the opportunity the  made us to include Gokarnam too in the morning session of this day.   But we went first to Idagunji and had a wonderful Dharshan of Sree Mahaganapthy there.   The temple opens at 6.30 am and we were there at 7 am.   We had packed earlier some bread the previous day and after Dharshan we had it there and moved to Gokarna and was there at 9.30 am.  First we had Dharshan of the Ganapthy who was instrumental in Lord Mahabaleshwar staying in Gokarnam. Not much of a Queue though devotees had gathered there.  We were allowed to feel the Lingam which was deep in the hole.  As our original programme, we reached Sirsi in the  afternoon and stayed there at Hotel Madhuvana.   We had our lunch there.  Took rest until evening.   In the evening, we proceeded to Sree Marikamba  temple and Sree Mahaganapthy (Dodda Ganapathy) temple and retuned back  in the evening had dinner too at hotel Madhuvana.    

05 04 22         

Left Sirsi at 7 am and reached Shahasralinga in the river Shalamala. The water level was not much, thus we could see more of the lingams and there is no pooja  done here though on Mahasivarathri day people gather to perform pooja to lingams.  Children can also enjoy here on the hanging bridge over the river.  After being there for an hour, we left for Belgavi and on the way, we took Lunch at a hotel on the way, Hotel Indraprastha.   We could have moved from Sirsi to Badami but we went to Belgavi and stayed there for the night.

06 04 22      

After a complimentary Breakfast at the Hotel, proceeded to Badami and reached  in the afternoon.  We found the options for Vegetarians lesser at Badami and had  our Lunch at a Hotel near Bus Station of Badami, which served Veg Food. After  rest for two hours, left to Badami cave temples and to Banshankari temple in the  evening and night stay at Badami.  One should have good physique to ascend the  steps of the Badami cave temple.  The first cave is dedicated to Lord Shiva and  only a few steps are to be climbed for that and the second and third caves have more steps.  One can also see at the eastern end the Lake and Bhoothnath temple from  the second cave area itself.  After dinner, settled in the Hotel.  Thee is entry ticket for Badami caves for those above 12 years.

07 04 22    

After a complimentary breakfast in the hotel, proceeded to the stone structures of  Pattadakall and Aihole.  At Pattadakall, 19 kms from Badami, Virupaksha temple  and other structures stand testimony to the skills of our sculptors of the Chalukya regime.  At Aihole, stone structures all around the place and it is said that around 125 temples are present here.  In the enclosure in the archeological department, there are about 14 temples.   Entry tickets are to be purchased at both Pattadakall and Aihole.   The route preferred for going towards Bangalore, is again coming  back to Badami and thus planning can be suitably done according to the necessity.    We wanted to have a day's stay on way back to Bangalore and thus stayed at  Davangere.   We went to Sree Harihareshwara temple and on the day there was procession arranged with reverence and prayers to River Tungabhadra.  In the night, ordered and took Davangere Benne Dosa.

 08 08 22   

After breakfast, started and reached Bangalore at around 2 pm.

Separate Blog postings are posted of the individual temples or sites and the links are appended here.

1   Sree Manjunatha Temple, Dharmathsthala
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-manjunatha-temple-dharmathsthala.html
2    Sree Annapoorneswari, Horanadu
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-annapoorneswari-temple-horanadu.html
3    Sree Sharadambal temple, Sringeri
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-sharadambal-temple-sringeri-after.html
4    Sree Suryanarayana Temple Naravi
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2013/06/shree-suryanarayana-temple-naravi.html
5    Sree Durga Parameswari Temple, Kateel
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-durgaparameswari-temple-kateel-on.html
6    Sree Vadabandeshwar Balaramar Temple near Malpe Beach Udupi
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/vadabhandeshwar-sree-balaramar-temple.html
7    Sree Krishna Temple, Udupi
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-krishna-temple-udupi-on-02-04-22.html
8    Sree Mookambika Devi, Kollur, Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-mookambika-devi-kollur-karnataka.html
9    Murdeshwar, Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/murdeshwar-karnataka-murdeshwar-temple.html
10    Mahatobar Sree Mahaganapathi Temple, Idagunji, Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/mhatobar-sree-mahaganapathi-temple.html
11    Sree Mahabaleshwar, Gokarna, Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sree-mahabaleshwar-gokarana-karnataka.html
12    Sahasralinga, Marikamba and Mahaganapathi temple of Sirsi, Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/sahasralinga-marikamba-and.html
13    Badami, Pattadakall and Aihole of Karnataka
        https://sarayutoayodhya.blogspot.com/2022/04/badami-pattadakall-and-aihole-of.html