Visit to Somavathi falls and Sringeri
The next day morning we went to the waterfalls nearby to the place whrere we had put up for the night (@ the guide’s place). Here Somavathi River makes a small plunge, thereby creating a small waterfall (known as Somavathi falls). Even though the weather was chilling cold in the morning, we decided to have some fun in the falls. We spent close to an hour splashing water around.
There is also a temple here dedicated to Lord Ganesh, which is considered very sacred to the villagers over here.
We then returned back to guide’s place, packed our luggage and were all set to return back to Bangalore after successful scaling of the peak. We started our journey back at 11 AM from Mullodi.
Since we had some time left in our hands we decided to visit Sringeri temple. In previous couple of trips we had planned for the visit but somehow things didn’t fall in place. We were hoping that we would be able to make it this time.
Sringeri is close to 60kms from Kudremukh.
Sringeri Introduction:
Sringeri is home to number of historic temples. Of these Sharadamba temple and Sri Vidyashankara temple are the prominent ones. According to legend, Adi Shankaracharya is said to have selected the site as the place to stay and teach his disciples. This is one of the four mutts which has been established by Adi Shankaracharya.
Even though the distance from Kudremukh to Sringeri was less, it took us close to 2 hrs to reach the destination. The road conditions are pretty bad especially after the SK border where one has to make a right turn.
We reached Sringeri at around 1:30pm. We were just in time for the temple would be closing by 2pm. We visited Sharadamba temple and Vidyashankara temple. Since it was Sunday the place was pretty crowded. We then had lunch at the temple, which is served as prasadam for every devotee.
This temple is located on the banks of river Tunga. One can see huge fishes in this river bank located close to the temple. People here flock to watch these fishes and also feed them with various foods. This place is declared fish sanctuary and hence nobody can fish in this water in the surrounding area.
After spending some time in the temple premises, we were all set to head back to Bangalore by 3:45pm. We reached Bangalore by midnight.
This turned out to be a good trip, given the various hiccups faced at the beginning of the trip.
