A passage to Nandi Hills

Those  having mastered seed  under the foot ,looks for holy days around the Calendar .To take a tripe anywhere, in and abord,to get  some relief  from  tress and tension of daily life and for enjoyment, amusement  education and so on .A passage to  Nandi Hills may be taken into consideration. It was called Anandagiri hills of happiness during the period of Cholas of the 11^th Century. Among other stories about the  origin of the name Nandi Hills it is perhaps called so because the hill resembles a Sleeping bull(Nandi).This hill station has a number of things to observe and most important among all a Dravidian Temple which is around 1200 years old. Carved on a rock, the two complexes of the Temple make it more significant. Where one complex houses the deity sculptures and the other had a pond which is known as Kalyani and sometimes as Amrut Sarovar. A beautiful water  lake that brims with lucid water all the year round.It is located at about 4851 feet above sea level .         

Temple Lake

 

An incident dseserve to mentilon here.Till for 11 days (NSS CAMP) atop Channagiri a 46-Members team from a city R.C. College has unearthed seven dormant feeder springs which are oozing water again. It was not an easy climb for the younger stars from their base camp at Doddarayappanhalli village two kilometers to the summit. Nandi hills have a motor able road to the summit, but Channarayaswamy Betta does not even have a foot trail, and trekkers have to negotiate bushes and boulders on the way up. When they reached the top; the students were shocked to see the ’Kalyani’ filled with mud. NSS Officer Tripura said the pond looked like a dump yard, with plastic bags and other discarded items covering the entire area.

       The 46 strong group as many as 22 were girls, began to clear up the pond with a vengeance , and did not let up  for the next five days, They get on  with the digging till late in the evening .

       The patience paid rich dividends .At end of the fifth day, one of the students noticed water bubbling up from a natural spring.  Back at the scene the next day, they found the entire area filled with water .A pump was processed into service to drain off the water and 11 days of preserving labor, seven long dormant springs had been unearthed. Hats off to the students.

Arkavathy River (Source- Nandi Hills)

Palar River (Source- Nandi Hills)

Penna River

Bangalore to Nandi Hills 60 kilometers by road .36 turns to reach hills top and 1175 steps around the hills. On Bangalore Ballary road ,reach Dsevanahalli Cross, which is on the 36 th mile stone Take the deviation on the left and travel 11 kilometers to reach Nandi Cross  The foot of the hill is 3 kilometers from here. On the Dodhaballapur road , turn right to reach the road that leads to the top of the hill. From the foot is 8 kilometers of the Top’.

Tree House

Hill Top

Rain Forest