Your search for beautiful locales to get away from busy city life ends here. Chowdamma Gutta, located 50 km away from Hyderabad, has varied rock formations that make people fall in love with it in an instant.
Chowdamma Gutta is a place where an annual jatara is held in January. Besides, the area is dotted with other hills – Demuni Gutta, Siddeswaruni Gutta, Venkateswaraswamy Gutta and Teegalnar Gutta. On arriving at Chowdamma Gutta, what grabs your attention is Sunnam Gutta, a 50-feet rock formation in a symmetric manner. It has a steep stairway, but climbing it might prove difficult for visitors. There is Chowdamma temple in the vicinity that is more like a cave which has a passage that allows visitors to enter the exit the temple. But the passage to the temple is littered with plastic bottles and coconut shells as it has not been maintained well by the district administration for several years.
Visitors need not take the passage as there are other ways to reach the hilltop.
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On the hill, locals have erected a pandal-like structure using rocks that gives the hillock a unique look. There is a Siva temple adjacent to the pandal.
“The beautiful rock formations are there for several centuries and we do not know about it as they are not publicised much. Being in close proximity to the capital, this place can become a tourist spot provided the government extends support in maintaining the place and also organise tours for students,” said V. Sambashiva, a resident of Yerdanur.
On the day of Jatara, thousands of people from surrounding villages arrive here to offer prayers.
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