A town famous for its shrine of Cheluvanarayanswamy and many little water tanks (Kalyani's) spread across it is marked as one of the historic places in Karnataka, but to me it was more or less a serene town tucked away in a small corner of the world. Adding to its old world charm were these old houses and small alleys which takes one back memory lane like malgudi days for me .

                                 

  
                                                                                                  
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With the lovely breeze and rain playing hide and seek on this thursaday afternoon, there was the much wanted silence I was looking for, away from the busy city noise, people minded their own business around and fortunately there were very few tourists…I had wanted to go to this place for a long time now but had never found the time and thu was when I could actually make it. We started our journey at around 7:30 in the morning. It was nice long drive to this wonderful temple town near mandya, at first I was amazed by milestone giving diff readings to reach this place, if one read 15 kms to melkote there would be one more in just a stones throw away saying 10 kms or so, this especially when we take the right turn from mandya to reach the town. At last we managed to reach the place by around 11:00 AM what with all the stops we had in-between. There were two things on my mind with all the research that I had done. I knew this place was real famous so either I could expect to see lot of tourists like any other historic place or a sleepy little town with hardly any soul to be seen outside and as always I was completely wrong though it was not as crowded, it was not a sleepy town either, it very well was full of life with little shops and eateries across the street .As soon as we reached this place we headed towards the temple, this temple being so old has history written all across the small town, as photography was not allowed inside the temple I had to be content with taking photographs outside which itself was very rewarding .. Once we had seen the lord we went around the town which was equally interesting after which we made our journey back to Bangalore enroute which I got to see some real nice birds which again helped me polish my amateur skills in birding. And thus ended my wonderful journey.