The Maxout Journey: It's about Tungabhadra Dam and Tungabhadra Garden!!!

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Welcome back to new blog.

It's been long time. Last week it was time to visit my home town 'Sirsi'. I must say best place to live and visit, so beautiful and I got fully charged up. It was time to spend lovely four days with our parents. Lot's of love to them. All do take care of your parents too.

Today's blog is one of eye catching of engineering works, Tungabhadra Dam also known has TB Dam. This dam is built across Tungabhadra river and is in Hospete, Vijayanagara district of Karnataka. TB dam is a multipurpose dam servicing electricity, irrigation, flood controls, entertainment, sunset view, expanding knowledge bank, environmental studies etc. Most tourists visiting Hampi include stepover at TB Dam.

TB Dam is contribution of Karnataka state, earlier Madras presidency and Hyderabad state, mega opening happened in year 1953. The TB dam is only reservoir which is non-cement and concrete which has stood over six decades and many more decades to perform. TB dam has capacity of 101 TMC (in words one lakh one thousand million cubic feet of water), height of 49.5m and having 33 crest gates. This is all about facts and figures, now let's have our experience in TB Dam.

Tungabhadra Dam

For us it was all about two delightful evening spending time together visiting at TB Dam, first evening our visit was to Tungabhadra gardens and other evening to TB dam. We dropped our car at main gate vehicle parking with charges of Rs. 30 and we took a walk towards garden. On the way we could see long queue waiting for bus to have TB dam view, there were representation of deer's, elephant and somewhat good maintained garden. Opposite side pedal boating was available with nominal charges.

Further we purchased ticket of Rs. 20 per person to visit Tungabhadra garden. Before entering garden we could see temple, bowed down from outside and we went inside the garden. It was so spacious for fun activities more preferable place to children. We could see good aquarium with varieties of fish family and nice park with mostly pink, green hues and around decorated with colorful lighting. Many kids were gathered in VR shows. There is small cafeteria available. Lot of good photos can be captured. It was time ringing 7pm, musical fountains started dancing with music and can say a good musical show siting on the lawn. After 20 minutes we started back to our home.

Day-2: Second evening we planned to visit TB dam, same way parked our vehicle and took shuttle bus at fare charge of Rs. 20/- each person to ferry us to vantage point at the top. Other way to view TB dam is by walk towards mountain hill for senior citizen bus is suitable. It's around 5 km one way and three spots at various level where bus drops. The top view of hill is excellent view of Tungabhadra dam and Sunset view is amazing to experience. There is Government guesthouse at top. We could see ice cream cart. There are many monkeys wandering.

Later we had fantastic experience, from top we could find steps below, we started taking those steps since it was night made us so scary. After half way we came back from steps quickly and stood in queue for bus. Hopped off from bus at second spot where thirumala garden is maintained and inauguration stone is found. Overall it was enjoyable evening's with simple joys of life.