Ahobilam Trip | hguy.blogspot.com

In the year 2007, I went on an adventure pilgrimage to Ahobilam.

 

Ahobilam is a temple town in Andhra Pradesh situated on the eastern ghat where we have the dense Nallamala forest.

 

A hilly forest range to deal with.

  

Plus, they say lord Narsimha first appeared here. Please be sure you know this story and the story of his son Prahlada.

 

We spent a night here in the guest house and visited the temples here. There are quite a few. Then we went up the cliff face to the place which was basically Prahlada classroom. Then we saw the ‘urgra stambha, from which they say NarSimha sprang up.

 

We kept going higher and higher. Which is very difficult for me. I gave up many times and wanted to return. But no…. carried on and eventually reached the peak.

  

While returning home we had another interesting experience. We stopped at an unknown temple at around 9 and asked if we could sit there and have our supper (which the Ahobilam mutt people sweetly gave us as a parting gift).

 

They allowed us to sit on a high platform and have our food but soon changed the condition to say that they will give us food. And gave us a lovely meal. Including a great desert.

 

Later, the head of the temple came to meet us and invited us to see the temple. He took us underground and through a series of tunnels - this scared the hell out of me - to show the inner sanctum sanatorium. Then told us very few people have seen this.

 

I just can’t remember the name of this temple.

 

Anyway, a memorable trip.