Weekend trip, Hyderabad to NallaMalla Jungle Camp - Pacherla

[jay_chitti]

We wish to enjoy the monsoon rains and want to disconnect from this city busy life and pressures. Want to explore some forest & greenery places and some time for devotional places as well. We decided to visit "NallaMalla Jungle Camp - Pacherla" and booked accommodation through its website (http://nallamalaijunglecamps.com)

 

Car : Fiat Punto 90HP

Places Visited : Nalla Malla Jungle Camp, Srisailam

Route Taken : Miryalaguda - Nagarjuna Sagar - Macherla -  Nalla Malla Jungle Camp - Srisailam - Dindi - Miryalaguda

Distance : 700kms (Round Trip - approx)

We booked our accommodation and started from Miryalaguda on Aug 25th - 5AM. 

Reached Nagarjuna Sagar dam by 6am, took some pics on the dam and enjoyed the cool climate.

 

From Nagarjuna Sagar, we reached Macherla and visited "chennakesava swamy temple" and headed to "Forest Camps" via "giddalur".

The road condition was really good and it went through some forest areas which provides pleasant driving feel.

 

 

 

 

 

We took the road towards "Nandyal" from "Giddalur" and travelled for about 35kms to reach "Forest Camp".

This 35kms road is driver's paradise with full of mountains and ghat sections. It was raining heavily when we visited and added more beauty to the place.

 

The real fun of driving starts here with this road and its curves ... 

 

This 35kms road condition was pretty awesome with no pot holes and full of tress on both sides.

 

Here are small videos of road condition

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2uIlB3_8OgJYXg4UHpEekdfNUE/view?usp=sharing 

 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2uIlB3_8OgJMFJ2VlFsaXlPdkk

 

After 4 hours of journey, we finally reached our destination

The accommodation provided was pretty clean with all facilities. They welcomed us with hot tea (welcome drink) as the climate is damm cool.

Some pictures of the jungle camp :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Few pics from Jungle Safari : 

 

There you can spot the old railway bridge which was destroyed long ago (that bridge even flashed in few movies).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even they arranged nice camp-fire after our dinner.

 

 

Time for some sport in the jungle camp :-

 

 

After our pleasant stay in the jungle camp, we headed towards srisailam. 

 

 

 

After having darshan of the Great Mallikarjuna Swamy, we headed to Miryalaguda via Dindi ( its my wife's turn to drive me to home ).

Overall, it was really good experience for us and enjoyed our trip alot. Even its economical too when considering stay packages at Nalla Malla Jungle Camp.

 

 

 

 

[Gowtham]

Excellent pictures and very well written.
I will follow your plan on some weekend.

Never expected Nallamalla forest to be this beautiful.

Your information is very helpful for the first timers. Thank you sharing the details. 

How is the overall road condition?
Any bad stretch in the whole circuit?

 Hyderabad -Miryalaguda - Nagarjuna Sagar - Macherla -  Nalla Malla Jungle Camp - Srisailam - Dindi - Miryalaguda -Hyderabad

[jay_chitti]

28 minutes ago, Ranger said:

How is the overall road condition?
Any bad stretch in the whole circuit?

 Hyderabad -Miryalaguda - Nagarjuna Sagar - Macherla -  Nalla Malla Jungle Camp - Srisailam - Dindi - Miryalaguda -Hyderabad

 

Road condition is good all the way. No bad stretch at all.

 

[SK01]

Amazing pictures and very well written bro

Miles to go before I sleep
 

[Naveen1]

Is it really Nallamalla Forest?

Great write-up and crisp pictures.
Driving Punto on those roads will be a drivers dream.

How much does the resort cost?
Is it including food?

[Sridhar Tandra]

Super cool, thanks so much for the information.. will plan it sometime before winter

 

Sridhar Tandra (ST)

 

[jay_chitti]

16 hours ago, driveking said:

Is it really Nallamalla Forest?

Great write-up and crisp pictures.
Driving Punto on those roads will be a drivers dream.

How much does the resort cost?
Is it including food?

 

Yes.. it is Nalla Malla forest.
Resort costed us Rs.4000/- including stay , food(welcome drink, lunch, evening snacks , dinner and next day breakfast) and jungle safari.
 

 

[venu]

Excellent information alongside some wonderful pictures Jay. Will definitely visit this place soon.
 

[Gowtham]

14 hours ago, jay_chitti said:

Resort costed us Rs.4000/- including stay , food

 

Pricing looks economical.
Any animal spotting in Safari?

[SK01]

 

Yes.. it is Nalla Malla forest.
Resort costed us Rs.4000/- including stay , food(welcome drink, lunch, evening snacks , dinner and next day breakfast) and jungle safari.
 
 

Everything under 5k? Seriously [emoji33]

Miles to go before I sleep

[jay_chitti]

3 hours ago, Ranger said:

 

Pricing looks economical.
Any animal spotting in Safari?

 

You can spot peacocks, deer and lots & lots of monkeys. Therez a pond in forest where all the animals comes for drinking water, jungle safari guys will take you there. There you might get a chance to spot bears or tigers.

[Gowtham]

57 minutes ago, jay_chitti said:

There you might get a chance to spot bears or tigers.

 

Spotting tiger and bear is very tough in Nallamalla.
According the report from 2016

 

1 hour ago, jay_chitti said:

You can spot peacocks, deer and lots & lots of monkeys.

Nice
 

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The NSTR (Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve) is spread in 5,937 km out of which 3,737 km is in Andhra Pradesh. The Nallamala forest is spread in Kurnool, Prakasam, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda districts. The core area of tiger is 2,444 km, the officials said. There are 2200 tigers in the country out of which 68 tigers are found in Nallamala forest.

 

It is almost like one in 100 kilometer radius.

We can spot many deer and monkeys on the highways itself.
Especially, If you drive early/late in Nallamalla you can spot many deer.

 

Few more questions , how much time does the Safari last.
Is the Safari limited to accommodation? Outsiders can book only Safari? 

 

[jay_chitti]

20 minutes ago, Ranger said:

 

Spotting tiger and bear is very tough in Nallamalla.
According the report from 2016

 

Nice
 

 

It is almost like one in 100 kilometer radius.

We can spot many deer and monkeys on the highways itself.
Especially, If you drive early/late in Nallamalla you can spot many deer.

 

Few more questions , how much time does the Safari last.
Is the Safari limited to accommodation? Outsiders can book only Safari? 

 

 

They will take safari to two different places and each last for around 2hrs. For outsiders, they will charge Rs.1000/- ( i don't know exactly).

[Subbareddy]

Nice...Very well explained!!!

[shiva]

Awesome report.
Place is beautiful in monsoon.

Good to know that roads are good. Planning a short drive to Nagarjunasagar.

Thank you for sharing the information. 

 

[sagar]

Lovely report @jay_chitti . very well explained and Your Punto looks fab. How many members does he take for the safari at a time? I mean to ask, in a single vehicle..?

[jay_chitti]

18 hours ago, sagar said:

Lovely report @jay_chitti . very well explained and Your Punto looks fab. How many members does he take for the safari at a time? I mean to ask, in a single vehicle..?

 

Around 5 to 6 people at a time for one vehicle. They got two safari vehicles, so 10 to 12 people at a time.

[uday]

Amazing details.

Information is spot on.

Pictures are very natural.

 

Will plan a drive with my family.

 

[SSSS]

Loved the pictures. Very well written as well. Thanks for sharing.

[Guest Sriharsha]

Hey what is the distance u covered in the route u chose?

They are asking me to take hyderabad, kurnool, nadhyala , pacherla route

Which one is better. Pls suggest

[varunc]

Hey what is the distance u covered in the route u chose?.. they r asking me to take hyd kubool nadhyala pacberla route... Which one is better. Pls suggest

I went to Pacherla last weekend. The route taken is ORR Entrance -> Jadcherla -> Kurnool -> Orvakal -> Nandyal (Ayyalur) -> Gajulapalli -> Pacherla

This is the best and fastest route. Bangalore highway till Kurnool super good. Then we get onto the newly laid Rayalaseema Expressway (Kurnool Ongole Main Road it's called) which is 4-lane for 60kms with few diversion in between.

10kms before Nandyal the roads are bad. This stretch of 15kms is very bad. Again the last 20 odd kms through the jungle is really smooth 2 lane road.

Hope this helps and let us know your experience of visiting Pacherla

[Guest Munish]

There are two Jungle repsorts. One is in Pacherla and other one is Bairluty. I am planning to travel to first Pacherla and second to Bairluty. Google is not giving specific route for Pacherla although providing directions for Bairluty.

Varun, thanks for providing direction for Pacherla, can you pin it on google map so that I can easilty identify it.

[shiva]

On 12/24/2017 at 3:56 PM, Guest Munish said:

There are two Jungle repsorts. 

 

It is better to have a discussion with hotel management.

There is lot of confusion on routes.

 

Pacherla information shared by Varun is 100% correct. 

[Naveen1]

Did anyone really spot tiger during safari?

Does Nallamalla forest have any tigers left?

I went to Tiger safari 3 times en-route to Srisailam, never spotted a tiger even once. 

[sagar]

23 hours ago, driveking said:

Did anyone really spot tiger during safari?

Does Nallamalla forest have any tigers left?

I went to Tiger safari 3 times en-route to Srisailam, never spotted a tiger even once. 

 

I have heard people spotting a leopard at this place before and not any tiger from the visitors recently but have heard from the villagers that there are tigers in this area from the interesting stories they shared and photos of paw prints which they see very often.

Tadoba is a better place to spot tigers than Pacherla safari.

[Gowtham]

Nallamalla forest have tigers but the density is very less.

One of our member spotted it once.
He couldn't click pictures as it is hiding in bushes far away. 

[Guest sahil]

On 24/12/2017 at 3:56 PM, Guest Munish said:

There are two Jungle repsorts. One is in Pacherla and other one is Bairluty. I am planning to travel to first Pacherla and second to Bairluty. Google is not giving specific route for Pacherla although providing directions for Bairluty.

Varun, thanks for providing direction for Pacherla, can you pin it on google map so that I can easilty identify it.

https://goo.gl/maps/1CQxidkmosy

[Guest Animesh]

How safe are tents from wild animal perspective at Pachrela?

 

[Gowtham]

58 minutes ago, Guest Animesh said:

How safe are tents from wild animal perspective at Pachrela?

 

 

It is safe.

But I'm highly doubtful they will allow you.

Forest officer is very strict in that area.

[sagar]

16 hours ago, Guest Animesh said:

How safe are tents from wild animal perspective at Pachrela?

 

 

I guess they would allow you to pitch in tents but you need to talk to them on call prior booking the place. I'm sure they would very surely deny at the first shot but if you are good at convincing them, I'm sure they would get inclined to your words.

[Guest Srinivas]

Thank you. It will help people who want take forest ride.

[sahil]

more info about pacherla and Bairluty in the telugu news paper today.

[FRANCIS PAUL K C]

Good Report. Will definitely help us this. Thanks a lot.

[Naveen1]

So no one ever spotted tiger in this place?

[Gowtham]

So no one ever spotted tiger in this place?

I guess no.
Couldn't find any pictures even on their website.

[Vinith]

Nice pictures and info, the location looks all green 

 

[Ankush]

On their website, http://www.nallamalaijunglecamps.com/index.php they have two booking options: Bairulty and Pacherla. Do you know which one would be better ?

[sagar]

11 hours ago, Ankush said:

On their website, http://www.nallamalaijunglecamps.com/index.php they have two booking options: Bairulty and Pacherla. Do you know which one would be better ?

 

Bairluty is more preferred  But, it's tough to get confirmed accommodations at both the places

[sahil]

How safe is the place incase if you are the only family staying that night in the jungle camp?

[rkamal]

On 7/4/2019 at 10:01 AM, sagar said:

 

Bairluty is more preferred  But, it's tough to get confirmed accommodations at both the places

 

due to monsoon patrolling BOOKING FOR PACHERLA IS OPEN (ONLY BAIRLUTY & TUMMALABYLU WILL BE CLOSED BETWEEN 16/7/2019 TO 15/10/2019)

planning to visit pacherla this weekend. will update the details.

[rajashekar]

On 7/25/2019 at 9:06 PM, rkamal said:

 

due to monsoon patrolling BOOKING FOR PACHERLA IS OPEN (ONLY BAIRLUTY & TUMMALABYLU WILL BE CLOSED BETWEEN 16/7/2019 TO 15/10/2019)

planning to visit pacherla this weekend. will update the details.

Hi Rkamal, Have  you visited this place ?

Can you please let me know the route you have  taken? and is it safe for family and kids

[sagar]

On ‎7‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 7:25 PM, sahil said:

How safe is the place incase if you are the only family staying that night in the jungle camp?

 

The place is no doubt a safe one to stay and the staff is good. But, it is always advisable to do this in a group as it is amidst the forest.

[rkamal]

On 7/26/2019 at 11:49 PM, rajashekar said:

Hi Rkamal, Have  you visited this place ?

Can you please let me know the route you have  taken? and is it safe for family and kids

 

Hi @rajashekar Just came back from the trip. Excellent place, young kids & teens will have more fun than small kids will. I have been to many jungle camps in and out of india, i felt the staff here is so helpful and supportive and go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. we (family of 3 our son is a teen ager) stayed in cottage felt safe. To see the animals in safari we got to be lucky, we spotted some malabar squirrels, sambar deer, and variety of fox can't recollect the name. birds and butterflies are a treat. the whole area is green. we had a great trip. The route we took is pretty much what google suggested, the road are good. But pre-booking the cottage is must. while coming back we visited mahanandi temple as its just 30 km from the camp. Thanks!

karnool > orvakal > nandyal (NH 44 & 40)

 

[Gowtham]

On 7/29/2019 at 8:07 PM, rkamal said:

Just came back from the trip.

 

Thank you for the update.

Beautiful pictures.

[sagar]

@rkamal .. Those were some beautiful pictures of the trip. Thanks a lot for sharing. Would you suggest this for a couple travelling alone and not in a group. Any safety concerns or risk factors ?

[rkamal]

@sagar Place is safe, and the staff make sure we stay safe & comfortable. Food is limited varieties but served fresh,, its homely and tasty. rest is up to us to take precautions and not step out in the unknown territory in dark. But yes, place is visited by mostly group of people/families rather than couples. 

@Ranger Thank you.

[sagar]

@rkamal Thanks much for sharing your valuable feedback on this place. Very helpful  

[uday]

How much time does it take to visit NallaMalla Jungle Camp - Pacherla?

[Viswam]

How to contact these people for booking and other details

[sagar]

On 2/21/2022 at 11:31 AM, Viswam said:

How to contact these people for booking and other details

You can directly do your bookings on the website below. 
 

http://nallamalaijunglecamps.com/