Sat April 27 - May 3rd 2019
Visit to Ooru - Salekeri, Birthi, Kadiyali, Udyavara, Balekudru, HungaraKatte, Parampalli
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| Sri DurgaParameshwari Temple, Salekeri |
It was summer vacations, and a few functions in Ooru. The "OORU" is not a place, but collection of places around the native place, Birthi,Salekeri. Visiting ooru and staying in father's house is a joy, which recollects the memories of childhood days. We stayed almost for 7 days and visited relations and friends and attended various functions.
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| Naaga Pooje at Balekudru |
Day 1, Saturday, April 27, 2019 - Reached Mangalore railway station at 6 in the morning after leaving Yeshvanthpur, Bengaluru at 7.30 pm and travelling overnight. in sleeper coach. Express bus was waiting, reached Udyavara at 8.00am, had breakfast, took car and went to Birthi. After finishing bath and pooja, went to Balekudru for NagaPooja function. After lunch at RamaMandira, visited Sumangali's at Parampalli, spent some time and returned home (Birthi).
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| with Sushravya and Sumangali |
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| BirthiMane Cat "Bangari" |
Day 2, Sunday, 28th April 2019 Left from Birthi at 8 am, after bath, pooja and breakfast to Basavani, near Thirthahalli (distance of 120 km). Also visited DurgaParameshwari Temple at Salekeri.
The drive from Brahmavara, Barkur, Haladi, ShankaraNarayana, Siddapura was very pleasant. Afterwards I have to drive through Hulikal Ghat from HosaAngadi, beautiful hilly terrain, on a nice road to reach MastiKatte, and then proceeded to ThirthaHalli. It is about 15 Km to Basavani where we were heading to a Upanayana ceremony of a relation , in a temple premises. After the ceremony, had grand lunch and by 3 pm, I left from there to drive back in the route we came. Reached at 7 pm and visited Victoria and Thomas Suares at Uppinakote at their house and reached home.
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| UPANAYANA AT BASAVANI |
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| SHANKARANARAYANA TEMPLE |
Day 3, Monday, 29th April 2019 Today again, we were invited to another Upanayana function of s/o of Bhaskar Adiga, a distant relation at RamaMandira, HungaraKatte (about 6 km). After grand lunch, returned home and a good sleep. College friend Ramachandra Aithal, met at the function and talked about those days of college and living.
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| UPANAYANA AT RAMANDIRA, HUNGARKATTE |
Day 4, Tuesday, 30th April 2019 Went for lunch at Vijalakshmi Bhat (Nalini's sister) at Kadiyali, near Udupi. After lunch had siesta, went to meet Shreesha Ballal for information about property change. Returned home by 6 pm
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| AT POLALI RAJARAJESHWARI TEMPLE |
Day 5, Wednesday, 1st May 2019 - Planned to visit Polali near Mangalore, a distance of 90 km. Picked Vijaya at Kadiyali and SujathaRaghuram at Udyavara and proceeded via Mulki, Kinnigoli, Katil and reached renovated Sri Rajarajeshwari Temple at Polali by 12 noon. After darshan of the deity, and prasada (lunch) at temple, reached Mangalore to visit Dr.Smitha (Sujatha's daughter)
Left by 3.30pm, reached Udupi by 5 pm, dropped people and went Perampalli, near Manipal to see the site and returned home by 7 pm
Day 6, Thursday, 2nd May 2019, Today was Sujatha's turn to treat us for lunch and the three sisters were together again for chat and lunch. After a brief nap, went to Kittus and Jayalakshmi at MayaGundi, stayed there till 7 pm and returned home.
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| VIJAYA, SUJATHA, NALINI (SISTERS) |
Day 7, Friday, 3rd May 2019, Since I booked train ticket from Mangalore to Bengaluru for tonight, had lunch at home, had a quick nap, left by 4 pm visited Udupi SriKrishna Temple and Sri Anantheshwara Temple and reached Udyavara to leave the car. Raghuram dropped on the highway side and we took a volvo bus to Mangalore, reached railway station at 8 pm to catch 9,00 pm Karwar express to reach next morning to KSR Bengaluru.
Day 8, Saturday, 5th May 2019. Reached KSR Bengaluru at 8.15am, engaged Wuber Taxi and reached our BirthiMane at BhuvaneshwariNagara at 9.15am, thus ending almost one week of ooru trip.
Posted Sunday 6th May 2019
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