Lately, I have been living in Bangalore, back to hair industry and to strengthen my independency and individuality. After shifting to the city in September, I visited my hometown Vizag in January for my birthday and mostly to celebrate my bestfriend's wedding. As the vacation ended for good 17 days. Most of the time I spent at the wedding and finally before leaving my peeps, my home and my hometown, I wanted to spend some time with my family. Hence, I decided to visit one of the most auspicious temples and also one of my favourites and must-go-to places, Annavaram Satyanarayana Swamy temple and after that, unpredictably ended up at one of the beautiful beach destinations of Andhra Pradesh.
As my people live in Anakapalli, it is feasible for us to visit Annavaram as it hardly takes one and a half hour in a car drive. This time we decided to take our pet Frankie also along with us to the temple. Annavaram Satyanarayana Swamy temple is a true epitome of depicting the truthfulness form of Lord Vishnu. Also, this is the rarest and unique temple where Lord Shiva resides beside Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi. Indeed, a beautiful and unexpected blend of Vaishnavism and Shaivism.
This is the temple where I make sure to visit at least once in a year with my family even though I visit many temples most often. We started from our home in our car with 5 people along with our pet in the morning around 9 and reached by 10:30 Am. With the temple protocol of special entry Darshana, we were blessed to get a satisfied and soul filling Darshana and Archana at the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Swamy.
The ghat road amidst the nature, Pamba river flowing on the side of the Annavaram hill can make anyone instantly fall in love with the spiritual aura of the whole temple. Before reaching the main temple, one must have to explore the roads of the hill or can reach the temple by climbing stairs. Mostly people take road paths because they look amazing and easily accessible for anyone to reach and explore. This place holds so much auspiciousness especially for the newly married couples, people who want to begin something new, whose wishes get granted by the lord, who buys new homes and for multiple good reasons, people visit this temple to offer their prayers. We spent till the afternoon by roaming around, taking pictures and ruminating many memories that our family had with this very temple. We collected our prasaadams and then decided to leave with an extreme faith and trust of visiting it again.
Once we were down the hill, we all started feeling hungry and were in a search of looking for a pet friendly pit stop for having a good vegetarian lunch. Thankfully, on the highway NH-45, we found a good restaurant where we all had our lunches, of course Frankie too. Now that was the family time I was talking about. We relaxed there for a while and as we belong to the coastal, our capacities of bearing heat goes inexplicable. As I relocate to multiple places every now and then, I'm pretty much used to extreme temperatures and coastal suns are always better than metropolitan suns.
Speaking of heat and temperatures of coastal regions, my sister's friend who accompanied with us in this trip has recommended a place where we have never visited and it was a beach destination. It might be the tiresomeness or weird intuition, I somehow had a mixed feeling before even visiting. As my sister too wanted to visit it, I decided to go with it. And then our vehicle turned from the highway road to service road to get on to the village roads of Revu Polavaram.
This beach apparently pretty much famous for many film shoots. Tollywood indeed has relied on making few of its main shots over here. It was really underrated before and finally getting its due respect for its amazing scenic views, oceanic atmosphere and of course its connection with the village innocence. Many spots at this beach destination are worth visiting. Of course, if the spots are film worthy, they are obviously social media worthy too. But, unfortunately we couldn't visit a main spot on a bridge where many film shoots have happened before. Coincidentally, it was their village festival and people from the nearby villages and town has also visited the same day. We didn't know that there was a festival happening and hence most of the spots got restricted to visit by the local police.
But on the contrary, we got to visit on an auspicious and the most happening day of the village, which made a little unsettling for a while because of the narrow roads, strangers, villagers who were staring at us and crowds making arrangements for their stalls, stages and shows. It was late afternoon when we visited there and spent till early evening, hardly one and a half hour by roaming and exploring around the beach spots.
There was a hill with the large statues of Shiva and Parvati, and a few temples of Rama and Krishna, the whole village extended to its interiors with small houses filling the space, narrow shore paths with grass meadows and temples with local folks chilling at small village stores, kids playing around in the sand and many more typical village scenes. Indeed, I feel that the village itself looks like an aesthetic movie and no wonder why location directors find this particular village beautiful to shoot for their movies.
My mom, sister, friend and including my pet, we all explored the warm sands and cool breezes of Revu Polavaram. There were people visiting continuously because of the festival and we walked all the way on the shore slowly embracing all the atmospheric vibe of the place. After clicking some scenic and family portraits to capture the moments, we decided to return to our home as we were already tired because of the travel. And when it was time for sunset, we finally bid a bye
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