Met Hitesh and hemant (his freind at Rajarajeshwarinagar arch and started around 12, the sun playing hide and seek. It was the same Mysore road which I have travelled n times, lazily cruising around 80 kmphr we took a stop at Ramanagara. Had some cool drinks and started again. With 2 more stops on the way we reached Shivanasamudra (Bluff) around 2:30 PM. I was disappointed as soon as I say the falls, I knew it was wrong time to visit but still i expected something better because of the heavy rains from last one week in Bangalore.
Some where near Malavalli. Hitesh and Hemant.
This is all we could see.
Bluff in May
Hitesh was very knee in taking a dip in water, through locals we got to know that even in balamuri the water level was very low. So it would be waste visiting it. They advised us to go to Talakadu instead. It was just 23 kms from here so headed back. Initially i thought we could cover this distance in less than 30 mins but i was proven wrong completely. On the way back saw this place looked good for some photo session.
Nice place
My bike posing
Me posing
After taking a diversion from malavalli road towards TalaKadu, the worst part of the trip started, we took more than 20 mins to cover 3 kms, after which the roads got improved from worse to bad. Finally reached Talakadu around 3:30 without any delay we were in the water.
The boat ride we didn't take
Riding 150 kms considering the worst roads for more than 40 kms had taken a small toll on my body, dip in the kaveri water washed all the things away. Later we purchased a ball so we could play in the water, thanks for my great throw it was far away from our reach with in the 2 mins we bought it. The depth of the water was till our shoulder so we enjoyed a lot. At 5:30 we were out of the water, I had a quick lunch after this and we pushed off from there around 6. Couldn't visit the temple, will come again in rainy season for sure.
Stop some where after malavalli.
The ride back was bit painful till Malavalli, after which it was smooth. Reached home around 9:30. Missed F1 and a chance to see the IPL on big screen but dip in kaveri will compensate those things. Altogether one more nice ride.
Route Taken : Banglore - Maddur - Mallavalli - Shivansamudra - (12 kms ride back, take a diversion towards) Talakadu - Mallavalli- Maddur- Bangalore.
Total Distance: 290 kms (From to Rajarajeshwarinagar gate)
Roads: Till mallvalli good roads, than the nightmare starts (especially towards Talakadu).
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