Kaveri Fishing Camp @ Bheemeshwari

Wednesday, 22 December 2010 10:00pm

The project release party, this time, happened at Bheemeshwari Fishing Camp. The Jungle Lodges were the perfect hosts for the whole team. We took the adventure day package, Rs. 1750, which included the adventure activities, Lunch and snacks. We have to make the booking at Bangalore.

We left office at 7:15am on a van and had our breakfast at Adigas @ Jayanagar 8th block. After a 90-100km drive on Kanakapura road, we reached Bheemeshwari at around 11:30am.
We started the day with a Burma loop, Parallel walk and a Zippy Drive. The lunch was decent one, but we were not there for a stomach full lunch. After lunch water sports started. We went on self driven kayaking . Coracle Ride too was fun, with close encounter with alligator. Since the water level was low, we could not go on river rafting :( Evening we started our journey back at 5:30pm and back in office at 8:00pm.

On seeing the jungle life, it got the memories of my child hood....
ಬಾಳಿನ ಆ ಘಟ್ಟವೇ ಅತ್ಯಮೂಲ್ಯ.
ಅಮ್ಮನ ನಿರಾಳ ಪ್ರೀತಿ,ತಂದೆಯ ವಾತ್ಸಲ್ಯ.
ಚಿಂತೆಗಳಿಲ್ಲದ ಆ ದಿನಗಳೇ ಅವಿಸ್ಮರಣೀಯ.
ಸರಳತೆಯ ಆ ಭಾವವೇ ಅನನ್ಯ.
ಮತ್ತೇಕೆ ನೀ ಬರಬಾರದು ಓ ನನ್ನ ಬಾಲ್ಯ.

Transport :MiniBus
We : CDC Saratoga team.
Distance : Around 200km whole journey

ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆಟ್ರೊ (Namma Metro)

೧೯ ಜುಲೈ೨೦೧೦, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು

ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆಟ್ರೋ ಎಂ. ಜಿ. ರಸ್ತೆಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ.....



ಮೆಟ್ರೊ ರೈಲಿನ ಪ್ರತಿರೂಪವನ್ನು ಎಂ. ಜಿ. ರಸ್ತೆಯ ಅನಿಲ್ ಕುಂಬ್ಳೆ ವ್ರುತ್ತದ ಬಳಿ ಜನ ವೀಕ್ಷಣೆಗೆ ಇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಪ್ರವೇಶ ಉಚಿತ.

Sultanate of Bijapur

On the way to attend a colleagues marriage at Athani, we visited Bijapur, historical city located at the Northern part of Karnataka.

The planning took place a month in advance, and we booked Railway ticket for the entire journey. On May 21st evening, we boarded the Bijapur Express from Yashwantpur @ 9:15pm. We packed food for dinner. It was the first time that we colleagues were travelling together. The chaos of B'lore soon calmed down, as we started moving away from it. Sleep followed. When we woke up the next morning, train had passed Hubli and we were running 2 hours late. The Nice view was of the Almatti Dam. The scheduled Bijapur arrival of 10:30am got delayed to 1pm, effecting our whole plan. (712km from B'lore to Bijapur, train route, via Hubli)
22 May 2010 3:30pm
Nature was kind enough and the weather was cloudy due to the Cyclone effect, so we could bear the hot summer of Bijapur. The lodging was arranged at Godhavari, and we got fresh and engaged a rickshaw for site-seeing. Since the Gol Gumbaz was our main target, which had a closing time of 5:30pm, we had to see other monuments in a hurry.

We started with Ibrahim Rouza, were a tomb of Ibrahim Adil Shah II and mosques is located in the middle of plush green garden.(Entrance Rs.5/head + Rs.25/Camera)
Malik-e-Maidan : Where the largest cannon in the world is located on a watch tower in the center of the city.
Bara Kaman & Asar Mahal : Which we could just see from road side due to time constraint.

Gol Gumbaz : Finally, we reached the Gol gumbaz, a mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah . As it was my second visit it didnt wow me much. It may appear to be a small structure, but it stands seven floor with largest dome in the world. In the center of a large hall, we could see the tomb of King and his family. We can use the staircase to reach the top, where we can reach the dome. The dome is designed in such a way that, if we whisper at one end, the voice will travel to the diagonnaly opposite end. Also it echoes the voices seven times. Truly, amazing architecture.
(Entrance Rs.5/head + Rs.25/Camera)
A museum, located in front of Gol Gumbaz had the historical information and other details about bijapur. (Entrance Rs.5/head , Camera Not allowed)

Jama Masjid : Located around 2-3 km from GolGumbaz.

We had our food in the evening at Kamath Hotel. The site seeing ended at 6:00pm and had to pay Rs. 350 for the auto rickshaw. At 6:30pm we caught bus to Athani, which will drop there us at 9:00pm.

Join the marriage party!
Athani, a small town located at 80km from Bijapur(140km from Belgaum), had strong Maharastrian influence. As it was night, we just attended the Varapooja of Sudin. There was abundance of food for the next 24 hrs. Stomach full, we settled in our room for a good sleep.

23 May 2010
Whole day we were part of the Sudin's marriage. It was nice to see the North Karnataka Brahmin marriage, with their authentic cuisine, which included bhasundi poori, pulav, mandige to name a few.

Evening 4:30pm we started our return journey from the Athani to Bijapur, in the same bus that marriage party was travelling.

Enroute, We visited Sri Laxmi Narasimha Temple, Toravi. Specialty of this temple being the Garba Gudi located in a small cave (But the cave is renovated with tiles and exhaust fans!)

Reached Bijapur at 7:00pm, and went to VRL office to catch the bus which will take us to our Karma Bhumi, B'lore. Bus arrived 45 minutes late and we boarded it at 8:30pm (Rs.460/head). (We had to cancel the Railway ticket as it would take more travel time). We had our dinner at 11:00pm @ Ilkal. The bus reached B'lore at 8:00am the following day. (Approximately 540km from Bijapur to B'lore, bus route, via Hospet)

click here for more info about Bijapur

Maut se do pal maange uski jhalak pane ko,
gaye darr pe uske usse manane ko,
pata chala ki wo is kadar ruthe hai humse,
ki khud dua kar rhe the meri maut aane ko
-Unknown


Transport : Train, Bus, Auto
We : Kumar, Me and Sandy
Distance : Covered around 1300km

Tryst with Kumara Parvatha

I was going through the old CD collection and found few past photos of the MTech days. The most memorable one being the Trekking to Kumaraparvatha with MTech friends. The words may not be enough to explain the beauty of nature. Some info that I jotted down at that time, i just copied below and few photos I uploaded.

Thursday , 08 Feb 2007 Subrahmanya/Kumara Parvatha 7:30am


The TREKKERS!!
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Akshath
Avinash
Naveen
Prashanth
Praveen
Sudheer


Distance : 12 Miles ( some say 10kms!!)

8th feb'07

07:30am Woke up, Got Ready, Visited Temple and had breakfast
10:40am Star trekking
12:00pm Bimana Kallu (1/4 th completed)
01:30pm reached Giri gadde (batra mane) (Mid point)
03:15pm Started nextleg after lunch
04:00pm Kallamantapa (3/4 th completed)
06:45pm Water source
07:15pm Top
09:30pm Good Night :)

9th Feb '07

06:00am Woke Up
07:45am Return Journey
08:00am Water source and had tiffin
08:45am Started after tiffin
09:45am Kallamantapa
10:30am reached Girigadde had lunch
11:50am Left Girigadde
12:35pm Bimana Pade
01:35pm End

2:45pm Subramanya to M'lore
6:15pm Reached M'lore
6:30pm M'lore to Manipal
8:10pm Manipal

ಹಾಗೆ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ..... ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿ!

೧೮, ಎಪ್ರಿಲ್ ೨೦೧೦. ಜಯನಗರ ೯ ಬಡಾವಣೆಯ ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಡ Alien

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ಮುಂಗಾರು ಮಳೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಕಾಲಿಟ್ಟಾಗ.. ಜಾಲಹಳ್ಳಿ ವ್ರುತ್ತದ ಬಳಿ..ಮೇ ೨೦೧೦

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Trekking to Devarayanadurga, Madhugiri Fort, Siddara betta

Saturday , 20 Mar 2010 Bangalore 6:00am

When the bikes roared again, after a gap of 6 months, we were heading on Tumkur road. A quick planning by RV on Friday night, we were off to Siddara Betta and Devarayan Durg on a beautiful Saturday morning (this time really early at 6am). We took a pit stop at Dabhaspete @8 for tiffin.Climb#1 Madhugiri Fort

Now Madurigi fort got added in our itinerary! about 60km from Dabhaspete, it is a fort built on second largest monolithic stone. We reached Madhugiri at 10 and started our ascent. It was a marvelous experience to climb a fort with all its nitty gritties unknown, with vertical climbs that has little support. But has to climb down without reaching the summit, missing it by 10 steps. But no regrets, as that height itself was big and was just a prelude to the things to come. We reached base camp at 12 and had a lunch at a hotel near Madhugiri bus stand.
click here for more info.

Climb #2 Siddarabetta 23km
We took a deviation after 5 km from Madhugiri to reach siddarabetta. As the road is being laid, the journey was tiresome on a summer afternoon. Things got worse, when we realized, we need to climb here as well. To our count we got 1000 steps to climb, some distance had to be trekked! A cave temple on top was our destination. When we reached top we were half fried and half baked! But it was a natures wonder that the cave had a cool temperature and chilling water source! For a nominal price you can get a 3 bucket holy bath :) in font of deity. After bath, we were re-energized, and it was like a fresh new beginning. The descent was smooth and reached our bikes at 4:30pm.
click here fore more info.

Climb #3 Devarayana Durga 30km
With proper sign boards on the way we could reach Devarayana Durga by 5:30pm, by which temple got closed. Except for few small stretches entire route was good. One could drive till top, leaving only few steps to climb. We climbed to top to see Giri NaraSimha temple, of course the doors closed. The nice pushkarni and setting sun kept us occupied for some time! Having churmuri, TumpsUp we bid adieu, to the day that go down in our memory as a thrilling day. We reached Bengaluru Mahanagari(our room) at 9pm after a dark night ride.
click here for more info.
Transport : My Pulsar 150, Yamaha FZ16 and Bajaj Discoverer
We : Jaanesh, Me, RV, Kaddi and Bhatta
Distance : Covered 271km
Started 6:00am End 9:00pm