Srisailam-Places to explore

 

Finally writing last week pending travel blog now.After Srisailam visit I realised, it will helpful for others planning to visit place,if  I will share my experience of place and journey.No doubt place is famous for its religious significance ,Malikarjuna deity temple and Srisailam devasthan.But other than this nothing much is mentioned on google regarding tourism.

I have already written one exclusive blog about birding and wildlife experience,this goes exclusively for only places to visit around and travel tips.

We started at 5.45am in the morning,and would like to share highway is very well maintained and traffic free,destination was 236kms away,duration of 4 hours,we took more as usual stoppage in between…Our stay was Haritha Hotel at Srisailam which is average place to stay ,government maintained hotel.

 

Journey is full of different land terrain mountains,lake,dense  forests, river bank which is indeed enjoyable experience and picturesque sight.

Time for Hotspots

Nallamalla Forest  on the way is dense forest of Eastern ghat,spread across large area on the bank of Krishna river,rich in flora and fauna,definitely must visit place for nature enthusiast if going to Srisailam.I manage to click good numbers of birds and wildlife during my visit mentioned in my previous blog.

 

Green Imperial Pigeon

View of Mountains on the way..

In the middle of Nallamalla Forest comes Amrabad Tiger Reserve,Although chances of spotting tiger is very less,but surely will witness some deers,Langurs,birds and of course breathtaking view point at Reserve.

 

Wildlife at Nallamalla Forest

View Point of reserve

 

Safari time

Giant Malabar Squirrel

Trail inside Safari

 

No Tiger only Statue

 

Srisailam Reservoir was our next stoppage,I guess Monsoon is better time visit this reservoir to see full flow of river.Still loved whole aura of place,India’s 4th largest river Krishna,dam ,bridge ,view of zig-zag route absolutely marvelous .

 

Collage of Reservoir and near by area.

 

APTDC Ropeway where one can go for boating on steamers ,quite enjoyable experience ,takes you close to reservoir and river close view.

 

View of Krishna river in boating ride

Ecological Knowledge Park

This is good place to understand whole theory of evolution,kids will surely admire the place.Khwaish took keen interest to explore full area full of big Dino ,animal and birds Statue.

GLIPMSE OF ECOLOGICAL PARK…

 

Two places which we missed are Uma Maheswarm temple and Mallela Water falls.

 

Overall its just one night stay one can plan to cover the place.Anyways route is more beautiful than the actual destination.

Hope my experience will help you plan ur journey.All the best,Explore Srisailam.

Cheers

Ashu

Birding At Narsapur

 

It truly said world is very small place.Few years back during my search to find  name of bird which I clicked during my Munnar trip,came across beautiful birding Blog.And later got in touch with writer of blog through mail,now almost gap of almost two year got opportunity to meet Blogger,Birder and photography enthusiast  Sumeet along with his lovely wife Supriya.It was truly great knowledgeable birding experience with company of expertise,special thanks to both.It is challenging task to go for birding along with kids,yes quite tough to keep them quite,so that birds should not get disturbed forget about yourself.Anyways manage to click and do my bit.

As part of Migration season birding whole gang went and explore Narsapur forest along with my family.

Clicks of Birds-

Common Kingfisher-First time got to know reason behind naming of Common Kingfisher because it is not at all common.

 

Black Winged Stilts

 

Avadavat (Red Munia)

 

Shrike

 

Flock of snipe

 

River Tern

 

Brahminy Starling

White breasted Kingfisher

 

Common Pochard and Northern pintail (in the background)

 

Coot

Pipit

Black winged Stilts in flight

 

View of lake

It was so relaxing to just sit back and relaxing near lake shore,special thanks to breakfast treat from Sumeet and Supriya.

One more birding experience come to end…..

 

It was unique experience of birding along with expertise first time in blessings winter season.Hope to explore more birds before winter sets off.

 

Cheers

Ashu