Happy New Year to All :-)
What a start to the year, partying till 3 AM and riding 220 KMS to see nothing but still enjoying every bit of it.
The plan was to visit the unheard Dumuku Rallu / Kiagal water falls in Chittor district. This place is around 125 kms from Bangalore.
Route : Bangalore - Hoskote - Kolar - Mulbagal - Head towards Palamaner (Its around 25 kms from Mulbagal)
The plan was to leave around 9 or 10 AM and join my family members at Mulbagal who were starting from my native. Thanks to the New Year party, we over slept and could only leave by 1 PM :D. By than my family members had already reached the water falls, my dad gave me the directions to the place and hung up saying will see you in an hour :D. [because he thought I was already half way... you guys have any idea why he thought like that... ;) ]
It was full rip session for the next 3 hours, post Hoskote we hit the under construction NH-4 which was pretty empty, we stopped for small break some where before Kolar.
Flashback,2 years back on a special trip we had stopped here, the place was differentthan.
By now the time was 2:45 and Chetu was fuming on me for leaving late. As soon as we left Kolar got a call from Dad asking about our whereabouts, we said we will reach there in 30 more mins max but he asked us they had come back from waterfalls so better for us to meet them in Mulbagal on their way back.But we said anyways will catch them near water falls and hung up. After Mulbagal we hit some forest area, the roads were narrow but very well laid out, the ride was good but it was getting frustrating as it was almost 4 PM and we didn't reach the water falls.
Finally, at 4 when we reached the waterfalls we were invited by hundreds of people, we very quite shocked because we thought this place was not so famous so it would be pretty empty. It was like an fair , after some off roading we joined our family who looked very exhausted. Thought we will get mouth full but they were busy having lunch :D.
Later they narrated about their experience about the falls, the falls was around 2 kms trek from the parking lot through some tough terrain and with all the crowd it took them total of 2 hours to to go and come back. So us visiting the water falls was gone :-( Chetu gave me this stare which made me run for cover :D. My dad convinced her we can visit this place some other time and we had lunch and decided we will visit Kurudamale Maha Ganapathi Temple on our way back. After visiting the temple , we headed back to my native.
[ Quote from wiki:
Kurudamale Maha Ganapathi Temple: Situated north west at 8 km from Mulbagal. This place is famous for Lord Ganapathi Temple.the Idol of the lord ganapathi is made of single " Saligrama rock " and the height is about 21.Ft from the ground level , & This Idol as well as temple is told to be 5000 yrs old.
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Now few pics
The plan was to visit the unheard Dumuku Rallu / Kiagal water falls in Chittor district. This place is around 125 kms from Bangalore.
Route : Bangalore - Hoskote - Kolar - Mulbagal - Head towards Palamaner (Its around 25 kms from Mulbagal)
The plan was to leave around 9 or 10 AM and join my family members at Mulbagal who were starting from my native. Thanks to the New Year party, we over slept and could only leave by 1 PM :D. By than my family members had already reached the water falls, my dad gave me the directions to the place and hung up saying will see you in an hour :D. [because he thought I was already half way... you guys have any idea why he thought like that... ;) ]
It was full rip session for the next 3 hours, post Hoskote we hit the under construction NH-4 which was pretty empty, we stopped for small break some where before Kolar.
Flashback,2 years back on a special trip we had stopped here, the place was differentthan.
By now the time was 2:45 and Chetu was fuming on me for leaving late. As soon as we left Kolar got a call from Dad asking about our whereabouts, we said we will reach there in 30 more mins max but he asked us they had come back from waterfalls so better for us to meet them in Mulbagal on their way back.But we said anyways will catch them near water falls and hung up. After Mulbagal we hit some forest area, the roads were narrow but very well laid out, the ride was good but it was getting frustrating as it was almost 4 PM and we didn't reach the water falls.
Finally, at 4 when we reached the waterfalls we were invited by hundreds of people, we very quite shocked because we thought this place was not so famous so it would be pretty empty. It was like an fair , after some off roading we joined our family who looked very exhausted. Thought we will get mouth full but they were busy having lunch :D.
Later they narrated about their experience about the falls, the falls was around 2 kms trek from the parking lot through some tough terrain and with all the crowd it took them total of 2 hours to to go and come back. So us visiting the water falls was gone :-( Chetu gave me this stare which made me run for cover :D. My dad convinced her we can visit this place some other time and we had lunch and decided we will visit Kurudamale Maha Ganapathi Temple on our way back. After visiting the temple , we headed back to my native.
[ Quote from wiki:
Kurudamale Maha Ganapathi Temple: Situated north west at 8 km from Mulbagal. This place is famous for Lord Ganapathi Temple.the Idol of the lord ganapathi is made of single " Saligrama rock " and the height is about 21.Ft from the ground level , & This Idol as well as temple is told to be 5000 yrs old.
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Now few pics
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| Kurudumale Temple |