Khammam

Tour to Khammam

Introduction

The most highly populated state in southern India and the land simultaneously of the Telugu and the Charminar, Andhra Pradesh on the Bay of Bengal offers a plethora of the most diverse tourist experiences. From dilapidated fortresses to untamed wilderness, magnificent monuments to rustic tribal villages, Andhra Pradesh has it all. Home also to a bipolar communal environment, Tourism of Andhra Pradesh has always been a flourishing industry and still has not lost any of the attention due to it. The name of the town Khammam derives from the name of the hill of Stambhadri(named after an old temple called Narasimha Swamy Temple on a small hill top in Khammam town believed to have existed since Treta Yuga). Later Stambhadri became kambadri, to kamba, to khammam mettu, and lastly when it became the district headquarters it came to be known as Khammam. A tour to Khammam is a trip down the lanes of ancient Indian culture and tradition and history. The forest area covers more than the fifty percent of the total area of the district which yield rich timber in the form of Teak. Coal is the chief mineral found in these lands, especially at Kottegudam, and Illendu.