Thursday, September 20, 2007

Bangalore - Weekend trip - Kotilingeshwara

Kotilingeshwara is located around 90 Kms from Bangalore.It is one big park of shiva lingas, lining pathways in all sizes amidst bilva and amla trees.The biggest shiva linga is 108 ft tall, ccompanying by a huge 35 ft tall figure of Nandi,surrounded by lakhs of small shivalingas spread over an area of 15 acres. So far, around 22 lakh shivalingas have been installed. The entire project involves the installation of one crore shivalingas of various sizes, hence the name ‘Kotilingeshwara’.

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