Morning at sharp 4:30 started from home weather was cloudy with sprinkling rain just passing 5km shower started, after picking my friend Raviraj from near Badiadka headed towards Kanhangad. Rain was stopped road condition was also reasonably good.
The temple here is dedicated to Goddess Caveriamma. Other deities worshipped here are Lord Agastheeswara, which denotes the link between Cauvery and Sage Agasthya and Maha Ganapathi.
The legend goes that, the Cauvery river was held in a Kamandalua (a container of sacred water) by Sage Agasthya. took the form of a crow and perched on the kamandala of Agasthya when Agasthya was meditating. When Agasthya realised this, he shooed away the crow. 
After visiting sacred pound and temple, started to climb the hill which is situated backdrop of the temple, one has to climb around 400 steps to reach the hill top it was really a nice experience. When we reached top of the hill rain started and stopped after five minutes, due to fog nothing is visible.
After descending the hill returned to Bhagamandala and visited Bhagandeshwara temple built in Kerala style and entirely different from the others. 
After spending half an hour over there headed towards our next destination i.e Madikeri a hill station town of Karnataka. It’s just 48Km far from here. Winding road with superb scenery gives pleasure to mind. Around 1:30 PM reached Madikeri and searched for a good Vegetarian hotel and found one excellent hotel near fort.
After the lunch visited the famous Madikeri fort, this small fort was first built by Mudduraja in the last quarter of the 17th century. He also built a palace inside the fort. It was eventually rebuilt in granite by Tipu Sultan who named the site as Jaffarabad. In 1790, Doddavira Rajendra took control of the fort. The British who added to the fort in 1834.
The waterfall is located between private coffee plantations with stocky coffee bushes and spice estates with trees entwined with pepper vines. The falls appear suddenly, the water cascading over rocks into calm pools. A hanging bridge constructed just opposite the falls comes in handy for the Tourists. After taking some pictures we returned to Madikeri and time is already 4’O clock in the evening, so we revised our plan and decided to go Mysore via Bylakuppe.
Namdroling Monastery
Bylakuppe is a small town built by Tibetan refugees, beautiful Buddhist monastery is built by them and locally it’s called golden temple to reach here one has to travel 4KM from the main road. As soon as entered the premises of temple a Police men stopped us and asked “Aap Ke Pas DL hein?” and asked all the papers are OK? where are you come from? as soon as I answered his question he directed us to go towards the parking are.
Now my canon starts to show low battery indication, purchased a pair of duro cell batteries from the shop and entered inside the monastery. Once entered inside the monastery one can start to feel like he is in Tibet because the architectural style, red, and yellow coloured buildings, clean gardens etc. I really appreciate these people for the way of maintaining cleanness inside and surroundings of the Monastery because lots of tourists visits everyday there but every spot is shining like a mirror, that lazy wandering ducks in green garden gold coloured shining tombs well mannered monks in red coloured dress its really great.
Street of Chamundi Hills Mysore
Next day morning i.e 15th of August 7:00 AM left our rooms and went to the famous Chamundi hills, hence we are new to Mysore at every circle asked for direction at last managed to get correct road after riding 12 KM reached top of the hill, nothing is visible in fog. due to tight schedule spent half an hour there and returned to Mysore town and after taking breakfast around 8:30 PM entered the famous Sir Chamarajendra Zoological garden (Mysore Zoo). It was a nice experience, different type of animals well maintained surroundings clean cages totally well maintained zoo.
Around 10:30 AM when we came outside the zoo where our bike was parked its front wheel found locked by traffic cops, a Police Sub inspector was also sitting on top of white pulsar, when we asked about this he directed us a Maruti Omni standing over there and told us to pay Rs 200 fine over there. After paying two hundred bucks we asked direction to go Mysore palace he directed us and also gave advices us ‘don’t park your vehicle on roadside a large parking space available near palace park your vehicle over there’.
Around 11:00 AM entered inside the famous Mysore palace. This historic palace was built by
Wodeyar kings in the 14th century, it was demolished and constructed multiple times. The current palace construction was commissioned in 1897, and it was completed in 1912 and expanded later around 1940. Mysore palace is now one of the most famous tourist attractions in India after Taj Mahal with more than 2.7 million visitors.[Although tourists are allowed to visit the palace.
The architectural style of the palace is commonly described as Indo-Saracenic, and blends together Hindu, Muslim, Rajput, and Gothic styles of architecture. It is a three-storied stone structure, with marble domes and a 145 ft five-storied tower. The palace is surrounded by a large garden
The three storied stone building of fine gray granite with deep pink marble domes was designed by Henry Irwin. The facade has seven expansive arches and two smaller ones flanking the central arch, which is supported by tall pillars.Above the central arch is an impressive sculpture of Gajalakshmi, the goddess of wealth, prosperity, good luck, and abundance with her elephants.
Photography is prohibited inside the palace when we put our carry bag on scanning machine a lady police shouted us that cameras prohibited inside the palace and directed us to meat a police man over there when we approached him he questioned how many cameras in your bag? Answered two, then he told us ‘give me ten rupees and take your camera inside, don’t use cameras but you can take pictures using mobile phone’.
Around 12:30 left Mysore, our next destination was KRS as well as Krishna Raja Sagara dam the dam was built across river Kaveri, the life giving river for the Mysore and Mandya districts, in 1924. Apart from being the main source of water for irrigation in the most fertile Mysore and Mandya , the reservoir is the main source of drinking water for all of Mysore city and almost the whole of Bangalore city, the capital of the state of Karnataka. 
The water released from this dam is further used as an important source of water in the state of Tamil Nadu, which has its ownMettur dam in the Mettur district. Sir. Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya served as the chief engineer during the construction of this dam. The dam is named for the then ruler of the Mysore Kingdom, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV.
The Brindavan Gardens is a show garden that has a botanical park, with fountains, as well as boat rides beneath the dam. Diwans of Mysore planned and built the gardens in connection with the construction of the dam. KRS Dam was the first to install automated Crest gates during 1920 which was initiated by Sir. M V. Display items include a musical fountain. Various biological research departments are housed here.
