After taking a good sleep of 8 hours and having continental breakfast we started for the lands beyond Tungabhadra river(Ancient India had known it as Pampa). The ferry wala takes 5 INR to take us across the river but for foreigners the rates are 15 INR per person. The land after crossing Tungabhadra is known as Kishkindha. The same land that had its glorious kings in Bali and Sugreev and God Hanuman (as mentioned in Ramayana).
The birth place of Hanuman is situated at a height of 591 steps(as counted by yours truly and Divya Alok Agarwal) on a hill top. Its around 80-90 meters from the ground level or may be more but our stamina has its limits but atlast we managed to get the top in nearly 30-40 minutes and they say that it can be easily done in 10 minutes even by the octogenarians.
There is a small temple on the top of the hill dedicated to Lord Hanuman signifying his birth place. It was a great experience and that can not be described. This is really a rarest of rare honour to visit our beloved God's birth place. The descent from the hill was as always an easy
exercise.
After paying our tributes to Hanuman we started for a place called Chintamani (about6-8 kms from Hanuman Birth place). This is the place from where Lord Rama had shot down King Bali by his arrow as told by the old lady residing in that place. She told us that Bali and Sugreev were fighting near a mountain on the other side of the Tungabhadra river when Lord Rama shot him down. Its really an unbelievable thing to walk through our childhood books
and finding them true to every scintilla. Near to this place there is an old building (rather ruins of palace) of Tara (queen of Bali). She also told us that some arrows of Lord Rama are still there and one can easily find the bones of Bali at a place near to Chintamani. Due to exigency of my companions we missed that opportunity. This place was the last leg of our journey.
One thing that i was staggered to observe was the number of foreign tourists. They constituted around 90% of the total tourists or may be even more and this clearly suggests that we Indians do not respect our treasures and history. After taking delightful lunch at Laughing Buddha we started for our shopping and then to Hospet and from there to Bangalore by BUS. All credit for making this itenary a grand success goes to Saugata, Ravi Bhushan and Divyalok.
Hoping for a next tour and i think that might be Ram Setu, when I can not say?
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