How to reach srisailam from hyderabad?

Srisailam - Mallikarjuna Swamy Jyotirlinga (Lord Shiva)

Srisailam is holi place  of lord shiva and parvati. It is significant to the Hindu sects of both Shaivam and Shaktam as this temple is referred to as one of the twelve Jyothirlingas of Lord Shiva and as one of the eighhteen Shakti Peethas of goddess Parvati. Shiva is worshiped as Mallikarjuna, and is represented by the lingam. His consort Parvati is depicted as Brahmaramba. It is the only temple in India which is revered as both Jyotirlinga and Shaktipeeth.

Distance of Hyderabad to Srisailam is - 213KM
Entire Srisailam area is covered by dense forest which is Tiger reserve.

Places near Srisailam

• Srisailam Dam - The Srisailam Dam is constructed across the Krishna River in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh near Srisailam temple town and is the 2nd largest capacity working hydroelectric station in the country.[3] The dam was constructed in a deep gorge in the Nallamala Hills in between Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts, 300 m (980 ft) above sea level. It is 512 m (1,680 ft) long, 145 metres (476 ft) maximum height and has 12 radial crest gates. It has a reservoir of 616 square kilometres (238 sq mi). Project has an estimated live capacity to hold 178.74 Tmcft at its full reservoir level of 885 feet (270 m) MSL. The minimum draw down level (MDDL) of the reservoir is at 705 feet (215 m) MSL from its river sluice gates and corresponding dead storage is 3.42 Tmcft.[4] The left bank underground power station houses 6 × 150 megawatts (200,000 hp) reversible Francis-pump turbines for pumped-storage operation and the right bank semi under ground power station houses 7 × 110 megawatts (150,000 hp) Francis-turbine generators.

• Paatala Ganga - Located at a distance of only 1 km away the ancient Sri Mallikarjuna Temple, Patala Ganga is another place worth visiting on a Srisailam Tour. Situated in the backwaters of River Krishna, Pathala Ganga is considered to be highly auspicious; it is also said to have medicinal properties. Many devotees can be seen taking a holy dip in the sacred waters here. It is believed that taking a dip here can cure various kinds of skin diseases.

• Phaladhara-Panchdhara :- This most beautiful scene spot in surroundings of Srisailam is located about 4 Km from the main temple. Tradition records that Bhagavan Adisankara performed penance at this place and composed the famous Sivanandalahari here. His Holiness Kanchi Paramacharya confirmed this and marble statues of Sarada Devi and Sankaracharya installed there and daily regular Poojas are being offered also. This spot is located in a narrow valley approachable by a flight of steps where subterranean streams of pure water with musical sound reverberating the surroundings. According to local folk these streams are known as Phaladhara Panchadhara and these two signify their origin from the fore head of God Siva the Phaladhara (Phala = fore head, dhara = Stream) and denote the five aspects of Siva, the Panchadhara (Pancha = five, dhara = Stream). The water from this stream flows in interrupted at all seasons. The Skanda Purana describes the flow as �Bhogavathi� and it joins in the river Krishna.

• Gaushala (Gosamarakshana) : The Devasthanam has constructed Gosamrakshana Sala near Hemareddy Mallamma Mandiram in an area of about 2 Acres and it is of aboiut 1.5 K.M. This Gosamrakshnasala is having modern cattle sheds along with required facilities and at present more than 450 Cows, Calves and Breeding Bulls are being cared. The pure cow milk and curd supplied from this Gosamrakshana Sala is being utilized for the Abhishekam of Sri Swamy and Ammavaru.

• Hatkeswaram - This picturesque spot is on the way to Srisailam of above 5 km away in a serine atmosphere. According to the tradition at this place God Siva appeared to a potter devotee in Atika (piece of Pot) and hence named as Atikeswaram and later it became Hatakeswaram. There is a temple dedicated to Sri Hatakeswara Swamy and is a stone structure datable to 11th-13th Centuries A.D.
• Sikareswaram :- This most sacred spot is located at about 8 km. from the main temple at a height of 2830 feet above the mean sea level. It is the highest peak of Srisailam. The Skanda Purana proclaines that a mere glance of this Sikharam frees the human soul from the fitters of re-birth – “Srisaila Sikharam Drustva Punarjanma Na Vidyathe”. – There is a temple dedicated to Sri Veera Shikara Swamy and locally known as Sikhareswara Swamy. This temple in as ancient stone structure and historically the Reddi Kings have constructed a flight of steps to this in the year 1398 AD and also a Pushkarini (Tank) at this place. This place gives a panoramic view of the entire temple of Srisailam including the meandering river Krishna.

There are other few places within 5KM from main temple

• Theme park 
• Ganesha Temple

Interesting story behind our Srisailam trip

I and my wife on 14th-Aug-2017 decided in morning for a weekend trip, we did not have own vehicle for travel, so we decided to go by TSRTC state bus. We booked bus our bus ticket for 2PM in morning 10AM and then quickly packed our luggage and booked a cab from Attapur for MGBS bus stand. We were slightly worried as we did not have any information about where to stay in srisailam. We riched bus stand and had lunch there in a restaurant. We kept on waiting for the bus and bus was testing our patience, finally the bus arrived at 3:30PM and we got into the bus. It was hot and sunny here in hyderabad, when the bus started we started feeling the cool breeze (it was a normal non AC bus). Since it was our first trip to srisailam so we kept on watching the route and whats beside the road.

It took almost 4 hours to reach the tiger reserve which falls before srisailam, we could notice some deers at night but there was trace of tigers but it was good as the weather had turned lovely and we could see some rain on the way. We were very happy. Finally we reached srisailam and then our search of hotel started, we got to know from some friends that there are community lodges like Reddy Lodge, brahmin lodge etc. The story behind these community lodges is mostly people come for marriages there with their relatives and want arrangment based on their community (sad but true). We kept on searching rooms but were unsuccessful. Then we thought lets have darshan and then we will search room. So finally we kept bags and luggage in cloak room and entered the temple. As we entered the temple we forgot all worries. We did darshan and decided to have dinner first and then thought of heading back to hyderabad.

We completed our dinner and started looking for bus, somebody told us that last bus was around 8PM and next bus will start in morning. It started drizzling  as well and we both were moving here and there in search of hotel. 

We then again reached "Mallikarjurna Sevasadan" where we had already enquired earlier, it was around 10:30. The person who was there in the reception told us that there is a room which has booking but guest has not arrived yet, they waited till 11PM and finally handed over the room key to us for RS 1000. Room was pretty big in size and had AC also, we knew that this arrangement is done by lord mallikarjuna only as there were so many who went enquiring and people were sleeping on footpath also. 

We thanked god for this and entered the room it was very pleasant, we took bath early in morning with hot water and went for darshan again. Temple premise was very pleasant with sound of om namah shivay chanting. While coming out you will get prasad also. Inside the temple premise you have lot many small temples which you can view. We spent sometime there and then went for breakfast. 

After completing our breakfast we went to see sakshi ganapati, shikharam and other places. There is a goushala very close to main temple do go there. 

We completed our vist to nearby places and finally back for lunch. After finishing our lunch our bus haunt started. But there was no vacant seat in buses for hyderabad. we waited for 2-3 hours and finally went into a bus which was going to Yadgir karnataka as we did not have any option. But good thing was that bus had to cross bangalore highway near mehboob nagar. We got down near highway and took a shared auto for Jadcherla bus stand. There we got TSRTC bus and finally reached hyderabad. 

It was really an adventurous experience, finally bought our new car a month after that. 

Caution :

While visiting paldhara and panchdhara never fall in trap of those astrologer with parrots. They may loot you.