As my father booked the tickets early though, But tickets were not confirmed till the date of journey. After seeing only the chart, we got confirmed all the tickets booked. My Family members started journey from the mysore, as it was planned i was to join them in Bangalore Station. On the Journey day evevning i was at office till the my bro-in-law told they already reached Bangalore station around 9pm. Train was to departure at 10:30 pm.
All of us got assembled at station around 9:30pm, were waiting for the train(and chart to see the tickets confirmed or not ). After train came and tickets also got confirmed, every one got into the respective seats, later on w
e adjusted in such a way that all of us got into the same compartment. thanks to those who had given the seats.
Usually i don't get sleep in train, so it continued in Mantryalam trip also. every now and often i use to wake up and seat and was trying to sleep. But somehow was not feeling much drowsy.
6th Morning
Train arrived in Mantryalam road, which is 15 km far from Mantralayam. Every one got down safely with lugguages. Then had to catch a bus from there to reach Mantrayalam. After reaching Mantralayam we thought we could get a lodge of Temple trust, but as it was full on that day. We had to go to Karantaka Bhavan(Guest house), surprisingly it was good.
We got 2 rooms, price was really cheaper as it was for the Karnatka People, it was good to stay.
One thing i observed as soon as i landed in Mantralam is it looks more or like Gulbarga, where i studied my Engineerin
g for 4 long years(i think it was good reminder for the memories...)
After Every one got freshed, We eat tiffin in Udupi restaurant, which was near by temple area. And went to for river to have have bath there. The River flows there is Thunga Bandra river, it was starting of mansoon so not much water was there. But still me, my 2 bro-in-laws enjoyed in water for almost 1 hour.
Others memebers took bath, and got redied meanwhile. It was around 11:30am we went to temple. Feel was good to go there have have darshan, for darshan all
men should remove their shirt(banian also), we got the darshan in 15 mins, one more round of darshan we did. It was around 12:30pm we finished dashha
n. Took prasdam for my friends(Even though i could not give to my friend).
6th Afternoon
At that time everyone was feeling hungry, so we dicided to have lunch in temple's Annasantarpana mantap. Usually in temples Lunch will be too good. Lunch was really too good, they served first dal, then rice, sambar and Payasam and curd rice. Every one eat full stomach.
After that my nieces(Manya, Munni, and Diksha) was asking for some fancy things to shop, so shopped for another 1 hours in temple area.
After that we had planned to go to Panchamukhi Hanjaneya temple which was 22 kms from the Mantralayam. To go to that place we had hire Auto, So got into one auto which had capacity of 10 memebers. But road was in bad condition everyone's back was paining for half an hour.
The temple was build in rocks only. People says it was actually a place where Lord Hanjeneya use to live. As it was saturday there was a bit rush in temple, but got the darshan fast, got back into the Auto place, Same problem while going back to the temple.
6th Evening
After reaching guest house, took rest for 1 hour, before packing up the lugguages. Got fresh and started towards Railway station. Ohh!! the autowala was drunkard this time, even his auto was looking like him only. That junk auto was not at all going beyond 20 kms speed. I got so much of irritation from that guy.But couldn't do anything :( :( .
As usuall train was late, it came almost 1 hr late, In b/w we packed food nearby hotel for the night and after got into the train, we were all got tired and had food and slept peacefully.
In the morning(around 6:15am) train reached Bangalore exact time(though i was surprised!!!). I got down in Bangalore and my family went back to Mysore in another train.
thats that end of another trip!!!
