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Light house hill

 

 

Kadri Park

 

Kadri Park is a garden , 5 km from the city near AIR studios. It is located in Kadri gudde ( meaning hill in Tulu ).

It's the largest park within city limits of Mangalore The park has beautifully laid gardens along with a Snake Park, zoo and a toy train.

Its a nice hangout place/picnic spot for children, couples, young & old.

There's another park called Pilikula Nisargadhama in Vamanjur about 10 km from the city which is bigger in size.

Pilikula Nisargadhama

 

Pilikula Nisargadhama is picnic spot / hangout at Vamanjoor near Mangalore in Karnataka.

About Pilikula Lake
Ducks wandering the garden around the lake
Wolves in the theme park

Pilikula literally means Tiger's lake. In olden days, tigers used to come to this lake to drink water. Henceforth, this lake came to be known as Pilikula.

The Mangalore City Corporation has developed this area and it has now become the hot spot for people who are looking for scenic beauty & peace. Pilikula has a huge lake & beautifully laid gardens encircling the entire lake. One can see swans & ducks moving around in the lake & sometimes they even move into the gardens. Boating facilities are available in the lake. One can either use pedaling boats (mostly preferred by couples) or bigger boats carry about 10 to 15 persons.

Botanical Garden, Zoo & Theme park

On the other side of the road, there is a huge botanical garden comprised of a variety of trees & a zoo featuring several wild animals. The speciality of this zoo is that the wild animals are not kept in cages. They are in the open. However, there are partitions like wide trenches or wire mesh, in order to avoid direct contact with visitors.

There is also a variety of snakes & birds in the zoo

Manasa Water Park

Adjacent to this, there is a Manasa Water Park which is similar to the Water Kingdom in Mumbai.

Manasa Amusement & Water Park is an ideal picnic spot, place rather a heaven on earth, nestled in the scintillating and amusing with cool, calm, serene and lush green is just 12Kms from Mangalore  city and also just 12Kms from Mangalore International Airport, situated within 450 acres Tourism project of Dakshina Kannada administration “Pilikula Nisarga Dhama”, Eco-Educational Tourist Park with Zoo, Botanical Garden, Heritage Village, Science Centre, Lake, Garden, Boating, Golf course.

Rides - Landing Pool   

Manasa Amusement & Water Park has a spacious Landing pool where adults and teenagers can enjoy their maximum. There are many slides set around the Landing Pool. 108" River ride, 27" Crazy Cruise Wave and Body Slide are some of the slides to name a few.

Typhoon Tunnel (54" black hole) also called Tubular Slide swirls you in a black enclosed tunnel from a height of 30 feet with twists and turns. Take a ride down the black hole on a single of double tube as you try and hold black screams of excitement through every mysterious twist and turn. Here people can experience the maximum thrill.

River Ride Slide at Manasa Amusement & Water Park is the most popular slide in the park where the entire family can slide together in a single float.

Open Slide (72" yellow coloured slide) makes you sit on a twin or single raft down gushing water for a giggling experience.

Crazy Cruise (27" red coloured slides) comes at an unimaginable speed an unimaginable height straight into the pool with splashing water all over.

In each of these slides, people will be coming from a height of 35 feet and 65 feet and will be landing in the landing pool in 1 minute time with a splash in the pool.

Rides - Family Pool  

 

Manasa Amusement & Water Park is an exotic vibrant and fun loving destination for the young and not so young alike. To complete family entertainment section of the Manasa Amusement & Water Park, is unique in its style and design. The family pool has many other water rides attached to the pool for an endless fun and entertainment for the family visiting Manasa Amusement & Water Park. This pool is the right place for adults to shed their inhibitions and feel young again.

Here your little ones will have the rides and slides on the Play Pan.

Open Kids Slide, a red coloured slide at Family pool gives sheer thrill and excitement as body sweeps from a height down to a fun pool for kids.

Kids Closed Slide, a red coloured body slide at this pool gives thrill to your kids.

Mushroom Waterfall is there for kids and women. Here you can just relax under the mushroom and let showers enhance your enthusiasm for more fun.

Family Slide, a yellow coloured slide at this pool promises lots of fun and laughter. Here kids can take ride down in groups with each other… or their parents can share in fun.

Rides - Multi Play System   

Manasa Amusement & Water Park’s star attraction is the Multi play system zone, an exciting arrangement, where you can have endless possibilities in recreation. Designed to give you a ‘surprise experience’, the multi play system is a large fun-zone, where the type of thrill you experience is entirely dependent on your movement in the designated area. Here children experience all types of thrill that adults can have on other slides, at this complex play stem within 4 mall slides give fun with water splash.

You’ll never know what strikes you next; it can be a cool sprinkle or a tight splash that would send you reeling for cover. All in the name of fun and in absolute safety.

Don’t miss this play zone…….

Rides - Dry Landing    

White and Blue Multilane Slide slides hurling down head on rubber mats with an action oriented thrilling ride for adults and children for above 10 years. This is the prestigious ride in Manasa Amusement & Water Park and is slide the longest slide in South India. This is a unique slide in which the entire family can feel the excitement of racing down the incline.

Ride the high thrills of the Harakiri – a water slide- while sitting in a raft. Skim across a thin sheet of water and exit safely… easily… on to a dry surface without getting wet.

Rides – Amusements   

 

Take a relaxing ride on the Giant Wheel (Ferris wheel) for spectacular birds-eye view of Manasa Amusement & Water Park. This wheel contains 18 gondolas and can accommodate upto 48 people at a time.  So take your entire family and have a great view of Manasa Amusement & Water Park.

Dhoom Bike Ride is an absolutely joy ride for kids. It is a 6 seater game for children aged between 5 -10 years. It is a kind if merry-go-round.

Brahmavar

Brahmavar or Brahmavara is a main road town on NH 17, located 13 km north of the Udupi in Udupi district in Karnataka state of India. It has been mentioned as Brahmaputr, Brahmavuar and Brahmara in the inscription, which means 'a settlement of Brahmins'. It is an ancient cultural centre of the region being adjacent to Barkur, which was the capital town of Tulunadu.

Places of worship

(1) Mahalinga temple

(2) Gopinatha temple

(3) Janardhana shrine in the Agrahara

(4) Holy Family Church[4] established on April 01, 1934[4]

(5) Saint Mary's Syrian Church

Educational institutions in and around Brahmavar
Nirmala Higher Primary School
Nirmala High School
Govt Highschool
SMS College
St. Mary's Syrian Cathedral
Little Rock Indian School - in Chantar, about 4 km from Brahmavar

Other places of Interest in and around Brahmavar
All India Radio station
Agriculture Research Institute
Sugar factory
Srikrishna Dairy - 4 km from Brahmavar towards Udupi
Hangyo Ice Cream factory - in Srikrishna Dairy Campus
Mahishamardini temple in Beelavara
Garadi mane in Varambally village
Barkur town

History

It is believed that the Mahalinga temple was constructed in the 9th century AD. The wall of the temple is built on the laterite stones. There is an image of Gaja-Gowri, which has been kept in Navaranga, which perhaps belongs to the Hoysala period. It is holding Ankusha and Pasha in the upper hand and Padma (lotus) in right lower, and the left lower hand in the abhaya pose. Handadi near Brahmavar was the settlement of the Hande family. Gopinatha temple is mentioned in an inscription that it is the third temple. The image of the presiding deity is of Hoysala workmanship.

Distance from Brahmavara
Udupi - 13 km
Manipal - 11 km
Kundapura - 28 km
Mangalore - 76 km
Bangalore - 360 km
Mumbai - 980 km

Rivers

The town of Brahmavar is sandwiched between the Sita and Suvarna rivers which originate from the Western ghats. They join the Arabian Sea a few kilometers from Brahmavar. The rivers form beautiful backwaters around Brahmavar. Tourists can cruise the backwaters on local country boats.

Transportation

Brahmavar situated on NH 17 is directly connected by bus service from Udupi on the Udupi-Kundapur line. Bus service is also available to most places within Udupi district and to Bangalore, Mumbai, Mangalore, Shimoga and other nearby districts. Local means of transport is autos and taxis. The nearest railway station for local trains is in Barkur and for long distance trains is in Udupi.

Barkur

Image via Wikipedia

 

Barkur is a village in Udupi district of the Karnataka state in South India.

History

Barkur was the ancient capital of the Tulu kingdom or Tulunadu.The people of Barkur spoke the Tulu language. But the present day people of Barkur speak Kannada.

Even today at Barkur one can find ruins of forts used by ancient kings. Some inscriptions in hale kannada languages are found in and around Barkur.

It is said that Barkur had 365 temples, ruins of few can be seen even today.

Its a beautiful, quite place with green evergreen trees. It was also the center of Jainism, with well preserved basadi (temple) which can be seen today.

It is close to Bennakudru, which has a famous Mogaveera temple considered sacred by all the fishermen of the state.

Udupi cuisine

Udupi cuisine is a world renowned cuisine of the southern India. Udupi cuisine comprises dishes made primarily from grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits. The variety and range of dishes is wide, and a hallmark of the cuisine involves the use of locally available ingredients.
The very famous masala dosa has its origins in Udupi and a whole school of South Indian vegetarian cuisine takes its name from this town. This is ‘pure’ vegetarian food and ofcourse adhering to strict vedic tradition the use of onions and garlic is discouraged.
Pumpkins and gourds are the main ingredients, while sambar is prepared with ground coconut and coconut oil as its base. Rasam, a spicy pepper water, is an essential part of the menu and so are jackfruit, colocasia leaves, raw green bananas, mango pickle, red chillies and salt. Adyes (dumplings), ajadinas (dry curries), and chutneys, including one made of the skin of the ridge gourd, are specialities.

idli sambar

 

Udupi thali

Curd rice

Neer dose

masala dose

rava dose

 

pathrode

bonda

uppittu

malpuri

vada

mosaru vada

cabbage vada

payasa

goli baje

Fish curry

Sivanasamudra falls

Shivanasamudra ((Kannada: ಶಿವನಸಮುದ್ರ) is a small town in the Mandya District of the state of Karnataka, India. It is situated on the banks of the river Kaveri and is the location of the first Hydro-electric Power station in Asia, which was set up in the year 1902.

Waterfalls

The Shivanasamudra Falls is on the Kaveri River after the river has wound its way through the rocks and ravines of the Deccan Plateau and drops off to form waterfalls. The island town of Shivanasamudra divides the river into twin waterfalls. This creates the fourth largest island in the rivers course. A group of ancient temples are located here and there likely was a village.

This is a segmented waterfall. Segmented waterfalls occur where the water flow is broken into two or more channels before dropping over a cliff, resulting in multiple side by side waterfalls. It has an average width of 849 meters, a height of 90 m, and an average volume of 934 cubic meters / sec. The maximum recorded volume is 18,887 cubic meters / sec. It is a perennial waterfall. The time of best flow are the monsoon season of July to October.

A common misconception about these waterfalls are that the left segment is called Gaganachukki and the right segment is called Bharachukki. In reality the Bharachukki falls are a few kilomoters to the south-west of the Gaganachukki falls. This is due to the Kaveri river itself splitting a few kilometers to the south into western and eastern branches . The western branch results in the twin waterfalls of Gaganachukki, whereas the eastern branch results in the Bharachukki falls. The Gaganachukki waterfalls are best viewed from the Shivanasamudra watch tower . Most of the pictures showing the twin waterfalls are taken from that location. There is another approach to the Gaganachukki falls from the Darga Hazrath Mardane Gaib . Despite warnings being posted, people climb down the rocks and attempt to view the waterfalls from behind/top, resulting in many fatal accidents. It is 139km from the city of Bangalore.