2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Halebidu to Belur

Next on our destination was Belur. It was well past noon and it was pretty hot. One more awesome place to visit with those fantastic temple our ancestors have left behind for us.

Just wondering what would it have been in its full glory.

Cheers,




2 day road trip, Chickmaglur - Bangalore to Halebidu

On this trip, we started from our home, took NICE road from Kengeri to Tumkur road. Our first place of interest was Halebidu. The ancient temples are simply awesome. I was lucky enough to visit them again.

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2 day road trip, Chickmaglur & surrounding places. - Prologue

In the month of November 2013, my cousin from Pune had come over to Bangalore. As a result, me and my cousins decided to travel out of town on another road trip. This time, not by our vehicles, instead via a hired TT tempo traveller, 12 seater.

The place we finalized was Chickmaglur. I have been to this place many times, but still agreed as this was one of a kind experience.

Here is a list of places we covered.

1. Halebidu.
2. Belur.
3. Yagachi dam.
4. Balehonnur Sri Rambhapuri Mutt.
5. Mullayangiri peak.
6. Bhadra forest.
7. Kemmangundi.
8. Tarikere Sri Amrutheshwara temple.

It was an awesome trip. Worth the time spent in all ways. Now time to document it a bit.

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Jog falls to Bangalore

After Jog falls visit, moved towards Sagar and Shimoga. Had evening snacks at Hotel Ashok in Shimoga and then started towards Bangalore by 6 30PM.

It was an all out drive towards Bangalore mostly through 2 lane roads. Reached Bangalore around 12 45 AM midnight and reached home around 1 40 AM.

This brought to a close an awesome 3 day trip. Partly planned rest all by instincts.

Cheers,

3 days road trip -> Apsara beach to Kamath Hotel to Jog falls

After playing football, taking pics and then spending loads of time on the beach. moved on to Kamath hotel in Honnavara. Incidentally, this happened to be the same hotel where I had breakfast when I did 10 Temples trip.

Found out that, the same waiter who served us, was still available, and served us this time too. Had south indian meals, skipped curd.

Most people ate icecreams after lunch. I did not. The after effect of which all of them fell asleep while climbing Jog Falls Ghat section.

These guys handed the responsibility to drive on me as all guys in the car dozed off. I drove on that road as slowly and carefully as possible!

Reached Jog falls around 4 20 PM, there was a huge crowd as Rajnikanth and Sonakshi Sinha were there shooting for a movie. Apart from that, there was a huge weekend crowd. Felt very hard to negotiate traffic, as I was driving petrol car. I am used to diesels, petrol seems like a new thing to me!

Cheers,

Installing whatsapp for blackberry.

Now I have a wireless router, I got whatsapp for blackberry installed. Now happy to use the same, until I buy a new phone.

Cheers,

Tips to write, for me!

I read quite a few blogs, on a not so regular basis. Each of the writer uses great words to describe stuffs they want. So in the end, apart from me there are many such readers who follow them.

My blog has been quite silent in the last 2-3 years, due to many reasons.

> I always was not in reach of a PC/laptop, so that I could sign in and just post.
> I spent one year away from home
> I have loads of topic to write, but always have wondered, how do I write or post them, in way similar to other bloggers or rather professional bloggers.
> Trying to chose topics, which interest other readers.

Due to the reason 3 and 4, I only have ended up on the losing side.
> I have not blogged much.
> Though loads of things happened around in me in the last 2 years, (By God's grace everything is fine, I am still doing good), I did not chose to write.
> Also I did not attend to my blog that much.

Now that I have got the power of wifi router & I no more am interested in what other people want to see on my blog nor I am bothered about my writing style, I am more interested in documenting things which I am into, so that I can atleast read them some day in future. I may end up making this blog private, not found on search engines as well, but till that day. cheers.

Yesterday was watching the movie Ghayal, today saw bits and pieces of the movie HUM. How thankful I should be to have watched these movies as a 6-7 year old kid. I never could soak into these two movies but as an adult. totally appreciate Amitabh Bachchan's acting in HUM and Sunny Deol's action sequences in Ghayal.

And these two movies are almost 25 years old. I guess these guys were 25 years ahead of their time, that is why they could produce, act contribute to such awesome movies!

Cheers

3 days road trip -> Mirzan fort to Apsara beach, Honnavara

After Mirzan fort, we had planned to go to Apsara beach in Honnavara. In the middle, we found a shop to inflate the football which we had brought along with us.

Within 30minutes we were at Apsara beach. The crowd was less almost nill. Played football, clicked pictures and had a nice time at Apsara beach for more than 2 hours.

Cheers,

PS - To post pics from other machine which has the pics