Trip to Dharmasthala and Kukke Subramanya

Hello guys...Its been long time for the new post to be updated.

This is my new trip which is more of devotional journey of powerful Shiva(which also called as Lord Manjunatha) and his son subramanya.

Firstly i would like to speak about Dharmasthala, It is located on the on the banks of the Nethravathi River in the Belthangadi taluk of the Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka, we traveled from Bangalore to Dharmasthala. It is approx 5-6 hours of journey.

Day 0 &1 :We started in the night by 10.30 PM from Bangalore and reached Dharmasthala by early morning 4.45 AM. As usual we went to living rooms for fresh up and returned to temple by 6.30 AM. Had darshan of Shri Manjunatha swamy and came out by 7.30 am.As we went in the morning darshan had completed within 1 hour if not it would had taken more than 2 hours. After that we had breakfast nearby hotels and left to sightseeing near the temple. There will be many autos which charge Rs.10 per person and take to nearby main places such as Bahubali vihar, Vintage car Museum and Manjusha Museum. We went to Bahubali Hill by auto and the place is on the hill, So u can expect the breathing taking view of Baahubali which is 39-feet and nature covered with full of dense trees.

At 9.15 am we started from Dharmasthala to Kukke Subramanya which is nearly 60km approx. from Dharmasthala which is holy place and reached by 11.30 am where we enquired about the lodgings and offerings for subramanya swami.We had taken lodging near by temple had lunch and went to holy river called 'Kumaradhara' which originates in the Kumara Mountain proceeds to the western sea.People call this river is very powerful as you will loose your skin diseases,mental problems and fulfill your wishes after which you should visit the temple. In the evening we went to temple for darshan. As there was no much crowd in the temple we finished the darshan less than an hour. we came out of the temple and did some shopping (Mainly gals or women) need. After shopping we had annadhana prasada(Anna Santharpane) which is offered by temple devotees. After which we came to lodging.

Day 2: In the morning around 6.30 we went to temple(It is such a pleasant environment and amazing landscape around the background of the temple) where there are huge devotees which had taken almost 2hrs in the line @8.30 we went to main temple which pooja had lasted for 45min. After pooja they will be providing prasadam for devotees who had done pooja.

After that we went to Adhi Subrahmanya Swami which is near by main temple had darshan and came back to room by 10.45 am. As there is a very big line for annadhana prasada and we had bus by 12.30. we can't able to make it and had lunch outside the temple and started our return journey from Kukke to and reached Bangalore by 7.30 pm.

It was one of the beautiful devotional journey i ever had.