Best ride of my life
I did not want this weekend to be spent the usual way, so tht i will go on a trip. As usual we gys planned to go to Ooty but the planned got canceld Sat mornin. The same evening i badly wanted to go on a short trip n called up Vikram by 5.30 asking if he could get his bike and to my surprise he said "Yes". Wooooooow, we both packed our stuff and he was at my place by 6.45 PM (Till nw we don kno whr r we gonna go ......... i kno..... dats crazy..... We r :))...... N in just 5 mins we dicided we will go to Shimoga (300 Kms from Bangalore) with our limited money and frm there to my university.......
I need not tell hw the traffic in Bangalore is on Sat evenings..... it took more than half an hour for us to touch tumkur road. That was a 6 lane road and the ride was awsome frm there but the only problem was it was rainin a bit. i must say that Vikram and i share more or less the same wavelength so naturally we had a lot to talk about so we didnt feel tired. By 10 we were in Tiptur and had our dinner. By now my whole back started to ache and adding to the misery was the fact that we were driving in the night. By the time we crossed Kadur it was almost 12 and stopped midway for a break. The route was pitch dark. The lorries and other heavy vehicles come in such high-beam headlights that they virtually drill ur eyeballs and see ur skull. I stretched myself on the middle of the road for nearly 15 mins. I even thought I will spend the whole night there, but then a lorry was coming and I had to get up and take a snap of Vikram and here is that http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/sunilkaushik15/DSC00678-1.jpg.
By 1.30 we were in Tarikare which is about 50 Kms from Shimoga and it was rainin heavley, so we decided to halt there and leave once it stops rainin. By 3.30 we left tarikare and we were in Jog Falls by 5.30 (it was still rainin). Out of nowhere Jog strikes you. It was as though some one was pouring gallons and gallons of milk from a height of more than 800 ft.I should curse myself for not being able to describe its beauty in words. One has to be there to enjoy it!
We then started to drive back to my university and we reached there by 10. I studied there for 2 years. But this time it was a completly different experience. This place is about 30kms from Shimoga and is called shankerghatta (I don kno wat dat means). For a Bangalorian this place would be like heaven if he stays here for a day or two. My university is located in between dense forest wit max to max 10 shops around. From the time we reached Tarikare till now, it didnt stop rainin even for a sec. We had tea in a small hotel near my university and i was able to take a snap of that hotel. http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/sunilkaushik15/DSC00681.jpg
By 2 we finished our lunch and went to Badra Reservoier Project which is hardly 1Km from university.
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Next day we had plans of coming back to Bangalore, but Vikram wanted to go to Shringari badly which is around 95 Km from my university. We finally decided and left by 12. Initially the road was too bad
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But the nature around us didnt let us feel the pain of those bad roads
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By 1.30 we were pretty close to NR Pura. From there the roads were too good.
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At 3.30 we had delicious lunch in shrungary temple. Again no words to describe the beauty of the temple.
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Came bak to university by 8Pm. Slept nicely as we did not sleep for 2 days. Next day while comin bak to Bangalore we went to see Gomateshwara
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and we were in bangalore at sharp 5.............................