Melukote

Melukote or Melkote in mandya district, Karnataka is around 130 Kms from Bangalore and an ideal place for a day trip.Melukote Wiki We started early on a drizzling saturday morning and reached Melkote around 10'o clock after having our breakfast at Kamat. Immediately After crossing Mandya , take the right turn at the sign board of Melkote which is around 40kms from there.The road is pretty good and scenic.

On the Way to Melkote

On the Way to Melkote

Painted Stork

Much to our delight there is a huge lake on the way to Melkote with few Painted Storks and other birds sitting on the banks.

Devotee taking bath at the Kalyani

At the Kalyani

Yoganarasimha Swamy temple Steps

Yoganarasimha Swamy temple

There was a movie shooting happening at this place during our trip.The other places to see in Melukote are Sanskrit
research institute,Raya Gopura, Akka Thangi Kola.

Yoganarasimha Swamy temple

There is lot more to explore in this place than we did and will be travelling to this place soon. This time during our travel on the Mysore road  we saw couple of accidents which could have been easily avoided.The first was a couple driving on their  motor bike on the edge of the road which was wet due to rains .They skid and fell down and luckily for  them no other vehicle was close  behind them else the consequence could be worst. We gave them some first aid and water.The second was after crossing Ramnagara Two guys travelling on their Motor bike were fast on that road(The sigh board on that road says 40Kmph), and a school kid going to school,who's around 13yrs of age was crossing the road with his bicycle when suddenly this motorbike guys hit him.All three fell flat .The driver of the motorbike had some head injuries and few bruises ,pillion driver escaped with some minor injuries ,but the kid was the one who was seriously injured.His eye was swollen with many other injuries on his body.We just arrived that spot and stopped our vehicle ,there were few people who already gathered at that spot. Since the kids school was exactly opposite where the accident happened few of his friends came there. His injuries were very bad though not life threatening.  All the three were shifted to hospital after sometime.This could have been avoided if those bikers were driving carefully or rather a bit slowly atleast near the places were people tend to cross the roads .(This place  already has speed limit sigh boards and one can clearly see people just tend to walk across,) Most of the times i see people driving crazily while travelling and most of the times it the car drivers who do this. Sometimes it is so ironic to see people driving crazily with a "L" (learning sigh) on their car

View of Melkote Town from the top of the temple