Talakona Jungle, Waterfalls, Horsley Hills Trip
July 23rd, 2007 by Vamsi
Myself, my sweetheart and our friends(13 of us) just had a great weekend trip to remember. We went for a 2 day trip to Talakona Jungle and Waterfalls (located ~80 km from Tirupati) and Horsley Hills, also known as Ooty of Andhra Pradesh (located 144 km from Tirupati, 160 km from Bangalore).
We started on Friday evening from Hyderabad (Secunderabad station) taking Padmavati express which started at 6:30 PM and we reached Tirupati at 7:30 AM, from there we took a mini bus (15 seater) (cost:5.8K/2days including diesel, rent and driver beta) and headed to Talakona Jungle. We booked a AP Tourism Resort (Punnami) in Talakona. Anyway, that’s the only place to stay in Talakona, but was decent enough. If you ever go here, make sure you close your doors and beware of the monkeys. We quickly freshed-up and headed to the jungle where there was a small waterfalls. Not a waterfalls actually, but was a good one to start with. Came back to the rooms, had lunch at a small village style hotel near the resort and left for the main waterfalls. It was a long walk from there but the fun after reaching the waterfalls was 10 times worth the walk. By the time we started back from the waterfalls, it was almost dark. We had dinner at the same place and then camp fire and then deep sleep. Next day, in the early hours, we started to Horsley hills. The climate there was awesome. Every moment was captured on camera.
We have taken a lot of photos to share. Below is a snapshot of photos.
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Simon Lasrado wrote on 04/16/08 at 5:55 pm :
Hi nice to narrate about Horsley Hills and how to reach there.We are planning to go there on 26th April from Bangalore.Nice photographs..keep it up..really another Ooty in Andra..
Rajkumar wrote on 06/18/08 at 11:09 am :
Hey vamshi could you please suggest me some tips and things to carry while trip to horsley hills and also tell all the intresting places to visit there help me making the trip unforgetable in my life yaar please help me yaar