Eagleton, the golf resort

8, May 2009

The summer of May could not dampen our spirit of Going out and having a fun filled day.

Eagleton, the golf resort, is located around 25 km. We have to take a detour after the famous kaadumane hotel, Mysore road to reach the resort, which in my guess, is the largest resort that I have visited (Even bigger than the Club Cabana, Yalahanka). As the name suggests the the main attraction of the resort is the big golf course.
I caught the company bus at Satelite bustand at 8:00am. Onboard, bus is already bustling with fun and froll. Our original plan of having breakfast at Kaadumane was cancelled and we headed straight to resort. 8:45am we were at the resort. We passed the large lobby at the resort to head to the food court, facing the golf course, to have breakfast. The variety of food and view was just impressing.

A few team activities,in a nearby hall, was the last this that we did according to plan. After which we were free birds!! Till lunch we could taste all the games that was provided for us. TT, badminton, cricket, squash, Foosball, carom and of course cricket. But, I spent most of time playing squash and mastered a bit of Foosball. The resort has good swimming pool near to the play area. Some of friends even tried golf, which was Rs.400 per basket.
We were back at food court at 1pm for the lunch. Nice delicious food served, and had our food at a nearby air conditioned dining room to beat the heat. The lunch is followed by some fun team activities like collage, dumshadarts. After a cup of coffee we were back at bus to head back to Namma Bengaluru.

We reached Satellite bus-stand at around 6pm.

We: whole team at atyati
Distance: around 50km
Transport : My Pulsar, Bus.

Nandi betta and ghaaTi subramanya.

8.15am 4, April 2009

The hot summer cross country bike ride!! The BW3Rocks came together once again to finish the unfinished terrain, the Nandi Hills.

After much postponement and lots of fight :) , we packed our bag on a Saturday morning to head on Hyderabad road. The ride began at 8:15am after a quick breakfast at Upahara Sagar. We exited the city on the new airport road. To our surprise the road is widened to accommodate airport traffic. With a bit of confusion we made a quick visit to the new Airport. A neat infrastructure project to see from outside. We just made a fly-by visit and joined the Hyderabad road to head to Nandi Hills. The heat just started to rise and taking a toll on our skin!!

We reached Nandi Hills at 11am (84km). There is provision to park the bike inside, bu we thought it better to keep the bike outside. After taking a entry ticket we headed on barefoot to reach the top of the Hill. A temple dedicated to lord Narasimha is located at the center. After the divine darshan we spent some time on the edge of the hill that is facing the B'lore city(i suppose so). We also visited the Tippu drop, where the thief were pushed to death, in Tippus time!! We almost reached the edge, where according to guide it is up to 1000ft. There is a guest house of Tippu Sultan at the entrance of Nandi Hills.

We left the Hills at 12:30pm. We headed to to Ghati Subrahmanya. We choose a interior road to save the distance. We reached Ghati Subrahmanya temple at 2:15pm (29km from Nandi) Lord Subrahmanya and Lord Narasimha are carved on the same stone back to back, Subrahmanya being on the front. A mirror is used to see the Lord Narasimha. After spending few time we headed back to B'lore via Doddaballapur. We stopped at a hotel near Yalahanka to have lunch. Finally, reached Namma Bengaluru at 6:15pm with tanned skin!!

We : Me, Bhatta, RV, Jaanesha, Putta, Mote, Santhya, Cherry
Bike : Bajaj Pulsar, Discoverer, Yamaha FZ, Honda Activa
Distance : 180km