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Friday, December 19, 2014

Belum Caves Kurnool

Posted by ANANTAPUR at 7:47 PM 0 comments

Belum caves located in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh is considered as the India's second largest caves. This is one of the best places to visit in AP. There are many caves in India, but visiting belum caves will be a unique experience. We should thanks AP Tourism for developing and maintaining these caves.

This is a natural underground cave formed by the constant flow of underground water. Belum Caves derives its name from "Bilum" Sanskrit word for caves.In Telugu language, it is called Belum Guhalu. Belum Caves has a length of 3229 metres

making it the second largest natural caves in Indian Subcontinent. Even though the Belum Caves were known to the locals, the first records of Caves were mentioned in expedition report of Robert Bruce Foote, in 1884. Thereafter, Belum Caves remained unnoticed for almost a century till a German team headed by Herbert Daniel Gebauer conducted detailed exploration of the caves in 1982 and 1983. The German expedition was assisted by the locals Mr B. Chalapathi Reddy, Mr Ramaswami Reddy, Mr Boyu Madduleti, Mr K. Padmanabhaiah, Mr K. Chinnaiah and Mr A. Sunkanna

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