The Badami Cave temple are located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot District of North Karnataka. The cave temple complex are the best example for Indian rock cut architecture. I have planned to visit these temples last year but due to Kalasa - Banduri strike unable to complete so decided to cover this September.
Day One 10th September 2016
Nothing special about the day left office at 1800hrs Karthik was joined at Kasaragod and as per the plan took dinner at Mangalore and reached Mulky by 2130hrs. Till Mangalore there was no rain once crossed the Mangalore started drizzling.
Day Two 11th September 2016
Second day was longest for us our final destination of the day wasDharwad, so at early 0400hrs left Mulky and headed on NH66, at 07hrs reached Baindur and took breakfast. Next destination was Apsarakonda Waterfall near Honnavar.
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| Maravanthe Beach |
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| Rough Sea |
Weather was very cloudy and interment rain also there we just missed the sign board of Apsarakonda waterfall and reached near the Honnavar Bridge from there asked local people and find out the right direction.
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| Near Honnavar |
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| Multi Axle truck carrying Windmill Blade |
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| Cooking |
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| Near Honnavar Bridge |
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| Way to Apsarakonda |
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| Parking near the falls |
After traveling few kilometers of bad and good stretch of the road reached parking area, it was around 0900hrs, once parked our motorcycles at parking lot started climbing the step, at top of the hill a beautiful Garden was built by tourism department. from there a small path way taking to the Water fall which was located near the temple.
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| Bridge at base of the Garden |
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| View on the way |
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| View from the Top |
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| Top View |
From the garden we can spot beautiful landscape and sea shore after spending half an hour headed towards the waterfall. Apsarakonda means Ponds of Angels, the legend associated with the name of the waterfall is that it was the chosen place of the angles to take bath and relax.
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| Sea View from the Garden |
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| Garden |
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| Beautiful construction |
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| Some more pictures |
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| Inside the Garden |
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| Pond facing to the beach |
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| Temple near the Waterfall |
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| Water fall |
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| Tourist enjoying |
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After spending one hour headed towards our next destination i.e Mirjan fort which is just 38km from there. We have plenty of time so no hurry, leisurely traveled and reached fort around 1130hrs. At parking, care taker has told us Photography prohibited inside the fort but mobile photography is allowed.
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| Inside the fort |
According to some historical source fort was built by Queen Chennabhairadevi of Gerusoppa under the Vijayanagar emperor. Under her reign it was used to transport pepper, beetle nut to Surat.
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| Some more pictures |
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| Church near the fort |
After spending an hour headed towards Dahrwad via Yellapur. Road was narrow but condition was good only few bad stretches are there, once reached the Hubli - Karwar road it was breeze to ride. Super tarmacked road with less traffic and green surroundings give pleasure to ride.
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| Superb road |
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| Bridge on the way |
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| Tree under the bridge |
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| Some more view from the bridge |
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| Near Yellapur on Karwar - Hubli Highway |
Around 14hours reached near Yellapur and stopped for a lunch, took delicious Dal fry and rice and headed towards Dharwad. While asking the route the cashier of the hotel told that there are two roads which takes to Dharwad and suggested us to take main road instead of inner road which goes through villages.
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| Hot Dal fry and Rice |
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| Beautiful paddy fields on the way |
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| Enjoying dirt track |
On the way found a beautiful dirt track which goes inside the village through green paddy field, we just went in that road to enjoy the beauty of village. After few kilometer my Green bull start to go jerk due to low fuel. On next fuel pump fueled and headed towards Dharwad.
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| Bullock cart |
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| Trees planted in both side of the road |
One thing I would like to mention here was this route was entirely different from my imagination, before hitting this route I though it might be barren land with very hot weather but once reached here found that every inch of the land used for agriculture purpose, peoples are also very hard workers, grown the trees on both side of the road and green fields are grown with Soya bean, Green chilly, Vegetable, Jowar and Maize.
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| Soya Bean field |
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| Road goes between fields |
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| Village |
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| Small Temple at one of the Village |
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| Line of Tamarind Trees |
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| Farmer returning to home |
Around 1730 reached Dharwad town and searched for a good lodge, and last managed to find Karnataka Bhavan lodge, parked our vehicle and freshen up and went to market to purchase famous Dharwad Peda and finished dinner went to bed.
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| Sweet Dharwad Peda |
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