Exploring Pandora - ZhangJiaJie
The Southern Sky Pillar is definitely the highlight in Yuanjiajie and an attraction that you wouldn't want to miss out because it was the inspiration for the "Hallelujah Mountains" we saw in the Oscar-winning movie, Avatar :) Day 3 [Feb 11, 2016] This is the last stop of Zhangjiajie National Park's tour....
A lifetime once affair at shravanabelagola
Shravanabelagola - 150 kms from bangalore , easily connected through train n bus , better to take a car as the roads are amazing , for travellers who wanna save some bucks can use train it would be 70rs person" Shravanabelagola is known for its monolithic statue of bahubali" Every 12 years once , bahubali is given Mahamastakabhishekam of all kinds , be it milk, kumkum, ashina,water" The ritual goes almost 4 months to ensure all the devotees gets the chance to do so" Its a lifetime experience of seeing the giant bahubali in different avatar"...
Stories of Hampi
The name of the place comes from the daughter of Lord Brahma,Pampa who was a huge devotee of Lord Shiva.Upon seeing pampa's devotion ,Shiva grants her a boon and she chooses to marry him.Their Marriage happens on the hemkuta hill ,that's located next to the Virupaksha temple.The story calls hemkuta hill as the heap of gold and it is believed that on the day of their marriage it rained gold over the place.Every year Hampi celebrates the marriage of Pampa and Lord Shiva.The Virupaksha temple is actually dedicated to Lord Shiva in his third eye avatar .That temple has stood through the trials of time ,especially when the city was burnt to ground and the temple stood tall amidst of the fire.Majorly because it was made of granite but for all the mythical believers we could assume that temple was protected by Shiva in his most dangerous avatar....
