Road trip to Nizambad part 1-- To soak in to a lazy holiday - Dichupally Qilla Ramalayam

Route:Hyderabad -Medchal -Kamareddy-Dichupally -Nizambad -Armoor 

Vehicle: Wagonar

Trip members :2

Temple timings: 6am to 6pm

Date of travel:  6^thAugust 2016

Trip plan !!!!!

To cover Qilla Ramalayam, Armoor siddula gutta,Basara

About Nizambad !!!

By saying the word Nizamabad is a dead give away about local or tourist status. Just pretending to know the names of the streets and land marks hardly works here.The moment you say Nizaa-maa-baad and not Nizambad  the locales eyes will gleam as they found out that we are not local.

This north western interior district of Telangana is actually the smallest among sister  districts.Nizambad is a compact district with unusual sights to behold.

One day for the trip & to cover whole of nizambad three full days is ample time to see what nizambad has to offer.On map Dichupally,Amoor & Nizambad forms a triangle.

Nizambad in early 1900’s when the railway lane was built by the Nizam’s king, this station was named after him and it stuck to it since then called as Nizambad and now it is occupied prominency as important city of north Telangana.

Journey  from Hyderabad!!!!!
 

It is 174kms from Hyderabad.climate was pleasant and roads are pretty good with 4 lanes .we started our journey at 6:00am drove to Medchal and reached Kamareddy and sooner we are at Dichupally our first destination .On highway  a sign board stating Dichupally to your left side before reaching Nizambad which is 18kms away .Before reaching dichupally we cross three toll gates costs around 115,100,95 rupees.We need take diversion from highway to suburb village .From long distance itself we can see the Qilla (ruins) on top of the hillock.

It is a sleepy small village . To enter the village a narrow passage which leads us to travel in mid of the fields.Here  we are welcomed by an arched gateway ,we need to flight 70 steps to reach to the top of the temple.

From top we can see whole village.

Story behind this temple is unknown.

The temple has no idols till 1940’s ,some local people have installed lord rama,sita, lakshman & hanuman here in 1947.Why exactly is this built is unknown, but locales say it is built in 14^th century A.D during kakatiya rulers.

My devil mind questioned If built by kakatiyas why there were no idols are installed in temple till 1940’s.

As we step on the top of the hill  the  temple  stands elegantly .But no one were there at temple so we had darshan from closed grill door.

We can observe an old fort wall which is in ruin stage .lots of questions moving in mind which were unanswered like is this  fort  that’s why called as Qilla (fort) ramalayam  may be…. No clear history known to anyone.

Qilla Ramalayam:

It is well known as Ramagiri qilla is located on top of the hillock and gives a very picturesque scene.It is 18kms away from Nizambad falls on Hyderabad highway.The temple with the lake in the background and also has 40feet victory pillar set  high up on a hillock and built inside a fort.It is made of white and black basalt stone to resemble the 17^th century kakatiyan temples in Warangal.

To the right we can see a mandapa in the middle of water of the lake.

The temple is small and does not have the resemblances of south indian temple architecture and it has fine sculptures.

We took a stroll around the temple and observed that major part of the temple was restored.

We can witness the heavy breeze which gushes out with heavy sound and gives us pleasant picturesque views.

They arranged some benches outside the temple to sit and relax and to enjoy scenic beauties all around.