Monday, October 05, 2009

Dhabeleshwar- the river island temple

Finally back to the hectic worklife at Gurgaon after a lazy holidaying at bbsr. This time i took the opportunity to visit the Shiva Temple at Dhabeleshwar, a small island in the Mahanadi River. It is about 50 km from Bhubaneswar. Alternate route can be taking a motor boat from mahanadi banks from cuttack. Of late, Orissa Govt is plying some interesting tours surrounding all key temples in the area.

Although the Shiva temple is relatively new, the place consists of relics from 11th century. Also, i would like to mention the organised ways the pujas are held in the temples. Apparently, there is segreatation of devotees based on the district they belong to. For example, as my ancestor belong to Kheojhar district, we had a specific priest catering to us who did all the pujas and arranged for lunch. The Temple visit was very pleasant to say the least. And , how can i leave out the only Hanging Bridge of Orissa. The walk through bridge over mahanadi river offered us picturesque views of the river banks, turtles swimming below and the idle boats waiting for the incessant drizzle to stop so that they can go fishing.I have to tried to capture these in pictures.

The Majestic mahanadi
The Suspension Bridge
Unemployed Boat
Another View
The Island Temple - Dhabeleswar

Me myself clicked by Priyanka

View from Temple

"Green Bank"



Cuttack the other end



Vastness

1 comment:

vagabondmind said...

Good to see you in action. Would have preferred 'the benched' boat instead of 'unemployed' :)