When I was at my teen age, myself along with my Guntur friends Y Gopinath, CH. Sambasivarao and his brother Bujji (Doctor) B. Krishnamurthy and R. Sanjeeva reddy, used to travel on our bicycles to visit places like Kotappakonda, Perecharla , Sangam jagarlamudi , Bapatla , Vijayawada and Amaravathi where we used to play and enjoy the time, by swimming in the river waters and sea waters etc and take food which we carried along with us. I remember that during our visit to Srisailam we walked long distances during day and slept near the place called ” pala dhara and pancha dhara” the lonely and isolated place in the forest where Adi Sankaracharya did his tapas. At night time, we were woke up by security staff and asked to leave the place as it was time to wild animals to come. We were terrified and left the place and moved towards Srisailam and one driver gave lift to us. At one occassion all the group drowned in heavy rain near ponnaru and we need to travel another 25 km to our destination and one of our friend suggested to better to smoke to avoid cold ness of our bodies and all of us lighted panama cigarettes and reached our destination feeling like Heros on on our bicycles during full moon day light. I need to say that famous Shiva temples are located at Amaravathi, Srisailam, and Sangamjagarlamudi and Goddess Kanaka durga temple at Vijayawada. I want to inform that once myself and Sambasivarao travelled to Bengaluru and Tirupathi on his lorry the trip we enjoyed is memorable and enjoyable.
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