Openion of vistor abt papikondalu

I have been in some of the most interesting places in the world, those places that are interesting by virtue of inherent popularity and growing tourism. Coming from a rich historical country like India, there is also no dearth of interesting tourist sites. One great change happened to me while reading several reports (like those from davidx, Jorge etc), is the urge to beat the taken track and explore the under explored. When we chose Papikondalu for our adventure trip, little did we know about the splendour of the place. The only reason why we heard of it is due to a controversy. There is this 100+ feet height dam proposed to be built in the papikondalu range that will engulf most of the villages due to raising levels of water. An estimated 30 odd villages will be endangered due to this however it is being constructed to bring millions of acres of land into cultivation.It can also be the case that by 2010 or so, most of the places that we are going to visit in this trip, are a history!