Thursday, September 18, 2015
After all the boring days of college, we wanted to utilize our festive leaves with an unplanned trip to nowhere. Yes exactly nowhere, NO PLAN is the best way for a traveler to start his journey.
Where to go?? North Karnataka, Kerala, Shimoga or Tamilnadu. OK let's stop here and decide our route on each day.
Friday, September 19, 2015
Vikas reached my place around 9:30 with all his necessary requirements and again asked me that "Where to Go"??
-No plans yet..!
He started to laugh! we left my place and started our journey without knowing that where we are going.
Finally, I made a choice to visit western ghats.
In no time we reached Tumkur highway and we reached Kunigal and got a view of lake which remembered us about our child-wood poem "Moodal kunigal kare" No wonder K S Narasimha Swamy had written so many good poems at this place, after all, memories he had our lunch in a nearby hotel and started towards Adichunchanagiri.
on the way to Adichunchanagiri
Adichunchanagiri
Adichunchanagiri temple
posing
top view
top of the hill
Friends..!!
It's already 3:30pm so, we started again without wasting any time and reached Channarayapatna and spent some time with groundnut seller by having a peaceful groundnut.
We hit Hassan around 6:00 pm and unfortunately bike got punctured for our luck we found a guy nearby who fixed in no time.
After a cup of tea in Hassan, we started our journey towards Charmadi ghat. The sun was about to reach home so I said goodbye to him and switched on the bike light and keep moving.after 3 hours of riding around 9:00 pm we reached Mudigere, riding to this place in the night was so scary the roads are so narrow and none of the people travel here after 7:30 pm.
Dinner at Mudigere
We completed our dinner with four plates of Porata with some veg curry and started our journey towards Charmadi ghat. Most of the peoples were looking us very strangely hearing about our plan as this ghat is very dangerous to travel in nights because of Naxalites & they suggested us not to stop anywhere!
As soon as we crossed the check post the road was invisible because of the fog and the worst part is bike doesn't have proper head light this time it was scarier my heart started to beat louder and we managed to reach a temple which is at the top and inquired a place to sleep but didn't found any, the time was almost 11:45pm.
What to do?
Then a gay suggested us to reach Dharmasthala which is 45 km more so that we can find some accommodation so, what to do? there is no other option suddenly rain started to hit my face heavy, as I said earlier we didn't have any option so this time we decided to fight against nature, so after completed the ghat we found some tea shop which was opened at that time and had some tea and refreshed.
Then in no time we started our journey after 20 km the rain become very strong and started to hit us very badly.......... we couldn't ride anymore!!
Finally, after some time we decided not to stop anywhere till Dharmasthala and start our engine and reached Dharmasthala around 2:00 am in the morning and managed to find some accommodation and was into a deep sleep!
5:30am fresh up and ready for the next day adventure. Our next destination was Chickmagaluru which is around approx 120kms so we left asap but rain doesn't want to leave us
Finally, we managed to reach Chikmagalur and felt like conquering the mountains this is the highest peak of Karnataka and nothing better than that feeling!
It's already 3:30pm so, we started again without wasting any time and reached Channarayapatna and spent some time with groundnut seller by having a peaceful groundnut.
We hit Hassan around 6:00 pm and unfortunately bike got punctured for our luck we found a guy nearby who fixed in no time.
After a cup of tea in Hassan, we started our journey towards Charmadi ghat. The sun was about to reach home so I said goodbye to him and switched on the bike light and keep moving.after 3 hours of riding around 9:00 pm we reached Mudigere, riding to this place in the night was so scary the roads are so narrow and none of the people travel here after 7:30 pm.
We completed our dinner with four plates of Porata with some veg curry and started our journey towards Charmadi ghat. Most of the peoples were looking us very strangely hearing about our plan as this ghat is very dangerous to travel in nights because of Naxalites & they suggested us not to stop anywhere!
As soon as we crossed the check post the road was invisible because of the fog and the worst part is bike doesn't have proper head light this time it was scarier my heart started to beat louder and we managed to reach a temple which is at the top and inquired a place to sleep but didn't found any, the time was almost 11:45pm.
What to do?
Then a gay suggested us to reach Dharmasthala which is 45 km more so that we can find some accommodation so, what to do? there is no other option suddenly rain started to hit my face heavy, as I said earlier we didn't have any option so this time we decided to fight against nature, so after completed the ghat we found some tea shop which was opened at that time and had some tea and refreshed.
Then in no time we started our journey after 20 km the rain become very strong and started to hit us very badly.......... we couldn't ride anymore!!
Finally, after some time we decided not to stop anywhere till Dharmasthala and start our engine and reached Dharmasthala around 2:00 am in the morning and managed to find some accommodation and was into a deep sleep!
5:30am fresh up and ready for the next day adventure. Our next destination was Chickmagaluru which is around approx 120kms so we left asap but rain doesn't want to leave us
Finally, we managed to reach Chikmagalur and felt like conquering the mountains this is the highest peak of Karnataka and nothing better than that feeling!
