Great destinations in Bangalore

                 Last week end(12th and 13th Feb), we had visited some interesting places within Bangalore. Our first destination was Dodda Ganapthi followed by Dodda Basavanna. After having great lunch served at MTR,Lalbaugh, we relaxed for some time in the Lal Baugh garden. Then we proceeded to the samadhi of Sri Narayan Maharaj(Who is believed to be the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya) located at about a KM distance from the bull temple. Exactly opposite to that is located the Architectural miracle-Gavi Gangadhreswara temple.

                                             

This temple seems like a cave and the specialty of the temple is that the rays of the sun directly touch the idol of Shiva only on the day of Makara Sankranti passing amidst the Nandi's horns. One has to pass through a cave like part to get the complete darshan of the idols in the temple.

                                          
Our next stop of the day was at Ramakrishna Mutt where we had purchased many valuable books. 

                    Our next day trip was to the Kotilingeswara temple near Bangarpet. Here is the huge Shiva linga and many lingas(don't know whether the count reaches to 1 crore or not) and the temples of many gods and goddesses in the same complex.

                                               
From here the Golden Venkateswara temple was around 6 KM which was worth visiting. Here one has to have the darshan of the lord through a window of 6 passages believed to be the Arishdvargas. Here the temple is on a small hill and even the temple of Padmavathi Ammavaru is also on a hill opposite to this. The view from top the hillock was too good.
                 Thus we had a weekend in the city waiting for the next to be out of city.