Pune to Srisailam

Day 1 

Pune to Srisailam 

We had packed and loaded most of our bags on the previous day itself. We targetted to start by 2 am. By God's grace and cooperation from the kids we could start by 1:34am. 
We had to cover ~800kms and hence this midnight travel was much needed to skip the traffic. 
The roads were very smooth making the drive pleasurable and convenient. We covered around 450kms before taking a stop for breakfast at around 8:30am. It was a small outlet who could serve us tea, coffee and some dosa. We had some paranthas from home which served the purpose.

The next stop was at 12:55pm for lunch at Hotel Sunrise. It was a clean place with decent food. The curry was on the spicier side and the tandoori roti was made of maida. We started at 1:35pm after having lunch to reach pathala ganga by 4:20pm. This is a sacred holy water on the banks of river Krishna. You need to descend around 450 steps to reach the bank. We stepped in the water to put some water on us and then floated a lighted diya in the water. Ascending the steps back was a bit exhausting and took time. 
We then proceeded towards our hotel - AP tourism hotel Haritha. This hotel was located at walking distance from the Srisailam main temple. We checked in to the hotel and rested for a bit and then proceeded towards the temple for darshan. We kept our footwear in the stand and got into the queue by 6:20pm. Mobile phones are not allowed inside. The temple was closed for aarti till 8pm and we had to wait. We were allowed to proceed inside by 8:07pm. The temple comprises of both shivalinga and Shakti peeth. We had our darshan and were on our way back by 9pm. There were nearly no options for good food. We found a restaurant by the name of Bhramari which claimed to be serving south Indian food and some North Indian dishes as well. We ordered aloo poori, idli wada and Dosa. None of the ordered dishes were good enough. I also had tea which was still okay. Post the dinner, we went back to our hotel, prepared for the next day and then got into our beds.

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