Anegundi Panorama
A rock shelf above Anegundi with the whole river valley in front of it and, most evenings, nobody else on it.
Open
6:00 am – 6:30 pm
Entry
Free entry
Best time to go
Sunset
Time to spend here
About 1 h
Crowds
Usually quiet
Above Anegundi village on the way to the fort. Empty most evenings, which is the whole point of it.
About this place
Above Anegundi, on the way up towards the fort, a shelf of granite opens out over the river valley: boulders to the horizon, paddy green in the middle distance, and the Tungabhadra bending away west. Climbers know it and almost no one else does, which means that at sunset — when the Hemakuta terraces on the far bank are shoulder to shoulder — there is a fair chance of having this to yourself. It is a scramble rather than a walk for the last part, over bare rock with no railing anywhere. Carry a torch: the way down in the dark is genuinely difficult and the rock is unforgiving.
Good to know
Getting there: Park in Anegundi village and walk up towards the fort. The pin is a shelf of bare granite with no road near it and no railing anywhere — the last part is a scramble. Ask in the village for the way, and take a torch if you are staying for sunset.
- The last stretch is a scramble over bare rock with no railing and no marked path.
- Carry a torch if you stay for sunset. Coming down this in the dark without one is how people get hurt.
- Shoes with grip, not sandals. The granite is smooth and polished in places.
- No water, no shade and patchy signal. Tell somebody where you have gone.
- Do not go alone at dusk.
