Kere Thonnur once called Thondanur is a village near Melkote. This place has 4 temples associated with Vaishnavite saint Ramanuja. We wanted to visit it during our earlier Melkote Visit but lack of time put paid to those hopes. Luckily we got another opportunity to goto Melkote in June and had enough time to visit [...]

Melkote or Melukote  (or ThiruNarayanapuram for Tamils), is one of the most important Vaishnava temple in Karnataka. Inspite of living (on and off) in Bangalore since 97′ I have never been to Melkote before and the long weekend over Christmas gave me the opportunity to do so. The route was Bangalore - Ramanagaram - Maddur [...]

Day 2 of Yelagiri trip began lazily with a thick fog.  After discussing a lot about a trekking trip to Swamimalai or driving to Jalagamparai waterfalls, we had decided to take it easy and spend half the day in Yelagiri itself. After a hearty breakfast, we started with the walk around the lake, stopping at many [...]

Yelagiri is a small hill station near Tirupattur / Vaniyambadi in Vellore District, about 150 Kms from Bangalore and 220 from Chennai. Not very well known, with very little to see or do,  it is nevertheless getting increasing crowd from Bangalore and Chennai due to it being just off the 4 lane Golden Quadrilateral route. [...]

Now that I have gotten a little more comfortable with the driving, I am slowly easing into making weekend trips near Bangalore. Having read about the Chikka Tirupathi  temple in a blog and having gone across a couple of times in bike rides, I thought it is a convenient place to take the family as [...]

 

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Sri Venkateswara Temple in Oldbury, a suburb of Birmingham is  probably the largest of South Indian style temples in U.K.  After numerous recommendations and enquiries (have you visited, why not kind) from friends, we had been planning to go to Birmingham Temple for almost 2 years but only just got the opportunity towards last Christmas [...]