2nd Oct 2025 - on the day of Vijaya Dasami, we started for a sudden unplanned trip to Srisailam from Hyderabad as it was Dasara vacation. It was just a two-day trip and we were back home on 3rd Oct night. After an early morning Sparsh Darsan of Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy and a close darsan of Sri Brahmarambika Devi on 3rd Oct, we enjoyed a boat ride in Patala Ganga. Well, this was our 2nd visit to Patala Ganga, the 1st visit was in 2008 when we went down to Patala Ganga in a rope way but we did go on a boat ride in our 1st visit. Our bad luck, this time the rope was closed due to some technical problem and it is difficult for us to go down the stony steps. Going down the steps would be fine but climbing up would be too exhausting. So we couldn't dare to go down the steps, however we found that there are some private autos taking the tourists in a long route down to Patala Ganga. I think, it was a temporary service due to the closure of rope way. There were auto on sharing basis c...