A Sweet & Short Road Trip to Anekal and Muthyalamaduvu (Pearl Valley)

Muthyalamaduvu (Pearl Valley)

Location:
Bangalore District
Karnataka State

Distance:
Bangalore to Muthyalamaduvu - 45Kms

Route:
Bangalore Banashankari II Stage - Silk Board - Chandapura - Anekal - Muthyalamaduvu.

There is another route from Banneraghatta which is also about 40 Kms. However, the road in this route is narrow, full of potholes and road maintenance work needs to be carried out. 

Estimated Travel Time:

One Hour by bike

Best Time to Visit:

August to November (During rainy season or immediately after rainy season)

Stay:

The nearest and best place to stay is Bangalore.

It was an unplanned trip to Muthyalamaduvu (Pearl Valley) by me and my friend Uday on Sunday (04.01.2015). We took the Electronic city flyover to avoid the traffic congestion in the city where the minimum speed to be maintained is 80 Kmph. There is a toll charge of Rs.25/- for round trip on the flyover for bike. It took about 20 minutes for us to reach Chandapura from the starting point of fly over and we picked up Amareesha from there. We three left to Anekal which is 13 kms from Chandapura to pick up another friend Ramesh and finally we four left to Muthyalamaduvu from Anekal.

There is a entry fee of Rs.20/- and parking fee of Rs.10/- for bike at Muthyalamaduvu where the bike can be parked safely. There is a small shop near the parking space where snacks and water bottles are available.   

From this place we climbed down steps for about ten minutes to reach the small waterfall where the water slides down the place creating an illusion of string of pearls. Hence, this place is called as "Pearl Valley". The stored water in this place is not very clean as the visitors have spoiled the place by plastic, beer bottles and lot of other wastes. There was no much flow of water when we went. However, it is a nice place with green mountain ranges and peaceful atmosphere to relax. As we went on Sunday, there were many people to enjoy.

Path that leads to waterfall

Four of us together in the pic 

Algae growth around the waterfall 

The water is spoiled by the visitors and it requires immediate clean-up. It is a request for the travelers not to spoil such a beautiful place with the non bio-degradable wastes. This pic is only a small part of the spoiled water.

Wastes dumped in the water near Waterfall 

A small Shiva temple ("Muthyala Eshwara Temple") opposite to the waterfall adds a religious touch to this place . On the right side of the temple there are various stone deities of Naga, Shiva, Nandi etc. As there was no priest at that time we took some photos and went further into the beautiful mountain ranges that looks almost like a forest.

Muthyala Eshwara Temple

Main Deity in the temple

A small paper written in Kannada attached to the tree in the pic requests the visitors to keep the place clean.

Deities near the temple

Further as we passed into the mountain ranges filled with greenery, small ponds filled water can be seen which are dirty and makes them useless for swimming.  

Small pond of water

Gandhiji's three monkeys

Diagonally opposite to the parking area, there is a small reservoir for storing the water.

The parking place is full of monkeys. So be careful when you open your food packets here as these monkeys will not leave you until you give the food to them. One of the monkeys took Pepsi bottle from one of the visitors and emptied it within few minutes.

After having fun here, we decided to go back to Anekal to have lunch. On the way to Ramesh house in Anekal, we went to a Kambada Ganesha temple.

Kambada Ganesha Temple:

This small temple can be found easily on the main road in Anekal. This temple houses Lord Ganesha Statue on a very big pillar ("Kamba"). It is believed that in the olden days when there was no power supply to the Anekal town, the people of Anekal used to light the lamps on the top of the pillar thereby enabling the travellers to identify the small village. The travellers based on the light from the pillar used to visit this place, take rest, have food & water and were continuing their journey. Due to the modernization of the world, the pillar has lost its significance. However, the pillar which has helped lot of travellers in dark old times is retained and protected in the temple.

Kamba on which lights were being lit in the olden days

Ganesha Deity

Nandi Statue

Sculpture of an Elephant

Sri Thimmaraya Swamy Temple:

From Kambada Ganesha Temple, we went to a thousand years old Sri Thimmaraya Swamy Temple which is about a kilometer far and it is believed that this temple houses the incarnation of Tirupathi Balaji which has developed on its own thereby getting the name of "Udbhava Thimmaraya Swamy". The temple gopuram has its own unique style and is a house for lot of pigeons.

Gopuram in its unique style

Naga Deities

Anjaneya Shrine

After spending about ten minutes here, as all were very hungry we rushed to Ramesh's House for having lunch. We had a great delicious lunch in his house chatted for about one hour and came back to home through Banneraghatta road in the evening.