Bandipur to Cable car station for Manakamana temple

The roads are terribly bad un tarred,dusty, muddy with trenches in some places ...work is going on at some stretches too but overall you need 3 hrs to complete a 50 km.distance... that's how bad the rds.are.
That is my exact route fm.Bandipur hotel where we stayed for 2 nights
tanking up before the drive to Manakamana cable car stn. Where they have the facility of a secured car park and you can leave the car over night and stay at Manakamana which turned out to be a great idea...
was dis appointed to get a very un ruely crowd that doesn't follow rules of queuing up... the security had to be summoned.
the rates to go up to the temple by cable car... the road can be avoided...
some info

after nearly a 30 mint.wait we could get into the cable car
that was our transportation capsule
the way to the temple
offerings to give at the temple
Cocks are also sacrificed here was informed by locals
first glimpse of the temple
 the waiting time to get into the sanctum area was 3hrs. So we decided against waiting ... we did our Darshan from outside and left.

bells are also offered
400 yrs.old carvings and structure
I don't know the story of that pic... if anyone does pl.share in comments

view from temple site

At 5.45 pm we decided to view the sun set from temple site and to our delight there were no crowds and we were allowed into the sacred sanctum area...

cheerz to a successful visit...

In the temple the deities are called Swayambhoo meaning they appeared on their own...

our hotel at Manakamana... not Oberoi or Mariott purely functional ... we were their first customer after they hv taken over 2 days prior ... very hospitable hosts... young couple have taken a yrly.lease of NR 18 Lakh.

Pl.go through the link below for more info

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manakamana_Temple

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