A lovely place with beautiful sceneries of "Papi Hills" and "Perantalapalli" which resembles the sceneries of Kashmir ( North India ) is a special attractions for tourists who visits this place .

Location : This hill place is located on Bhadrachalam - Rajahamandry water way at a stretch of nearly 3 Kilometers all along the pleasure trip on either side of the holy river Godavari.

Route : By road , from Bhadrachalam town to Kunavaram ( 50 Kms ) and then by Motor Launch through Kunavaram - Rajahmandry water way on river Godavari.

The travelling distance by motor launch from Kunavaram where a Sabari rivulet get merged into Godavari river is about 4 and half hours journey .

Visiting Places : Sri Rama Giri in VR Puram mandal is situated on the bank in the down stream of the river Godavari ( about 55 Kms from Bhadrachalam ) . The deity Yogarama temple is on a hill place and the place is named after Sri Rama Giri.

Brief History : According to mythological story , an ardant devotee , Sabari , gave shelter to Sri Sita Rama Laxmanulu while they were on the way in Dhandakaranya during Vanavaasa period and offered fruits to Rama after tasting them out of affection towards Rama.Bhakta Sabari who had spent her old age by chanting Rama nama in Dhandakaranya attained solvation after having Darshan of Rama whom she loved fervently and later dissolved as a revulet which merged into the holy river Godavari near Kunavaram .

Perantalapalli ( A Tourism Spot ) is a remote tribal village in Velerupadu mandal of Khammam District. This village is located on Kunavaram - Rajahmundry water way.

A "Sri Krishna Munivaatam" was constucted at this village by Balananda Swamiji in the year 1927.Now this Munivatam is being maintained by a tribal sect Konda Reddys and daily pooja are being performed by them . Beautiful sceneries of Papi Hills and water falls at Munivaatam and the peaceful atmosphere at this tribal village will defenetly give pleasant look and peace to the visitors .The idiol of Shiva under serpent shade was installed in Munivaatam .

Brief History : The history depicts that on one day Balananda Swamy (during 1926) had reached perantalapalli village while travelling from Rajahmundry to Bhadrachalam on river Godavari in a motor launch and stayed that night .He was enraptured with the pleasant atmosphere and the sceneries at and around the palce where he stayed on moon lit night and he came out of the launch to the sand bed at the bank .Then a lady appeared to him and asked him to follow her and disappeared after reaching a place at the river bank covered with shurbs and stream flows . He spent that night there and astonished after seeing Shiva idol under serpent shade in the early morning and decided to construct a mantapam there .That mantapam is named as Sri Krishna Munivaatam . No priests would perform pooja there , the devotees themselves pray the God and perform pooja after having holy dip in river Godavari.Using of non-vegetarian and hunting of animals are strictly prohibited there. All the devotees must maintain silence while spending time there and also performing pooja in this munivaatam.

Balananda Swamy after seeing the backwardness of the tribal sect Konda Koyas (Hill Reddys) decided to reform them and took up a project in the line by bringing them to cultured society .Later in 1969 ,one David Adam , an youngster and a resident of England became a disciple of swamiji and spent in this munivaatam till recently.Now this munivatam is being maintained by the tribals themselves.