Visiting Places Near Lepakshi Temple, Anantapur Andhra Pradesh

Visiting places near Lepakshi Temple

Visiting places near lepakshi temple

Nandi Hills

The distance that needs to cover for reaching Nandi hills from Lepakshi temple is 92.3km, and the time required to travel from Lepakshi to Nandi hill is 1 hour 50 minutes.

The Nandi hills are one of the ancient hills located in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka state India. These hills are by the Ganga dynasty, and later, it’s enlarged to southern India by Tippu Sultan. It’s a belief that Nandi hills are the origin of the Arkavathy river, Ponnaiyar river, Palar river, And Papagni and penna river. The stories behind the name of Nandi hills are that Nandi hills called Anandagiri hills, which resemble the hill of happiness. The hills are in the shape of a bull so that it called Nandi hills. Nandi hills are one of the adventurous stops for trekking, and the trekking provides a staircase based path so that beginners can also have fun in trekking.

Nandi Hills

Nrityagram

The distance that needs to cover for reaching Nandi hills from Lepakshi temple is 99.5 km, and the time required to travel from Lepakshi to Nandi hill is 2 hours 24 minutes.

Nrityagram is a modern Gurukul school for Indian classical dances that offers classical dances as Odissi, Mohiniattam, Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, and Manipuri. This school offers classes for eight hours a day for six days a week for about seven years. It’s set up by an intentional community in 1990 by Odissi dancer Protima Gauri. The word Nityagram means dance village, and this place can define as the place where you can eat, sleep, breathe, talk, imagine, and dance. All the five senses combined for perfection and to drop negative qualifications as jealousy, small-mindedness, greed, and malice.

Nrityagram

Antara Gange

The distance that needs to cover for reaching Antara gange from Lepakshi temple is 92.3km, and the time required to travel from Lepakshi to Anthara gange is 2 hours 48 minutes.

Anthara gange is a mountain area situated in Shathashrunga mountain range of Karnataka. Anthara Ganga means the Ganges from deep. The Anthaganga has a famous temple Sri Kashi Vishweshwara that dedicated to Lord Shiva, which also called Kashi of South. This temple has a pond, and it’s believed that drinking water from the pond will protect and demolish from diseases. The other famous thing is Antar gange caves which are 4 km away from the temple, the way to the temple is steep and narrow, and there are seven villages on the mountain.

Anthargange

Kumbakarna Park:

The distance that needs to cover for reaching Kumba Karna park from Lepakshi temple is 52.6 km, and the time required to travel from Lepakshi to Kumba Karna park is 57 minutes.

The Kumba Karna park is the best place to plan for a weekend, and this is a park with a huge Kumbarkana statue with some people who are trying to wake him from sleep with drums, food, and pinching with tools. The visitors allowed to enter the Kumbakarna statue in the park and entrance is from the stomach of a demon, and you are the exit from the legs. There is horse ride and camel ride is provided by which the visitors can enjoy by paying the cost for the ride.