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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Exploring Chikmagalur - Part - 3

When we start to ascending the peak start to drizzling just stopped to put jackets and continued, due to mist visibility was poor after passing few kilometers of stretch road condition start to poor after the view point it gone worst..


 View point



Last 11km it's horrible, there were very very less traffic in this rout we find a few local motorcycle riders and some of cars only.The road goes between dens Bhadra forest area.





Superb view 

























Around 6 PM reached Kemmangundi check post point the guard to there were no room available at Guest house. No problem we were prepared for that, just asked direction to Birur and continued our journey.







After crossing just 2km from Kemmangunddi superb concrete road welcomed us, Thank god... God listened our prayers.

 Around 7:30 PM reached Birur and took brake for the day. After freshening up took lunch and gone to sleep.....



Our bike parked in front of the lodge

Day Two 09/09/2013

Wake up at sharp 0430 and freshened up, at 0530 checked out the lodged warmed up our bike and headed towards Shravanabelagola Via Banavara, Arsinakere, Rain starts to drizzling.


 Superb road near Banavara


 Ganesh Chaturthi special


 Wet road



 How is my new tipper....?
At Arsikere stopped for breakfast as soon as Vada and Hot Bisibele bath went inside cold ran away from us rain was also stopped.


 Bullock cart


 Paddy field



Kidding..



Amazing  Straight road 1.6km


 Butta chor..


Shravanabelagola

Around 0945 hrs reached Shravanabelagola, parked our motorcycles and started to climb the Vindhyagiri. The statue of Gommateshwara is one of the most important Pilgrimage in Jainism.





Most of the Tourists who visits Shravanabelagola are from North Indian Marwari's who believes in Jainism.

57 Feet monolithic Statue of Gommateshwara (Bahubali)









 View from the top of the hill




 Monkey made out of coconut


 Natural drink we call it as a Glucose because it removes riding fatigue within a second


 Birds on pon



Temple on the way

Ganesh chaturti market


 Bangalore Managlore NH



 Ganesh Chaturti at Hassan


 Hassan Bus stand


Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all

From Shravanabelagola our plan was visit Hassan to collect some spare parts of Ravi's CT100 from his friends and way back to home via Siradi Ghat section, on the way took lunch at Hassan, some section of the Ghat road due to heavy monsoon, we manage to reach Puttur by 6 P.M and took a tea brake and reached home by 7:30. Total distance covered in this Trip 630Kms.