Exploring India

Team : Deekshith, Narendra Route : Bangalore --> Makalidurga --> Hindupur (nearest railway station)--> Lepakshi (~123km) Transport : Train, Auto Date of journey : 08 July 2017 When it comes to travelling, I always prefer to travel by Train. This time, I decided to explore a place which could be covered by train route. After some sort of search in Google, I found an interesting place - Lepakshi. It didn't take me much time to search a train to Lepakshi. Hindupura is the nearest railway station, located  at a distance of 13km from Lepakshi.  View of Makalidura hill as seen from the train We took a Jaipur Express (12975) train from KSR railway station, at 1 in the noon. The train goes via Makalidurga, giving us beautiful view of Makalidurga hill. It took ~2hrs to reach the nearest railway station, Hindupura. Hindupur railway station From Hindupura, there are two options to reach Lepakshi, one is by local bus and other option is to...

Team : Deekshith, Manoj, Shashi Route : Bangalore --> Mysore --> Virajpet --> Kakkabe (nearest bus station) --> Tadiyandamol (~273km) Transport : KSRTC bus, Bike ride Trek distance : 5+kms (One way) Trek timing : ~2.5hrs to reach peak, with couple of short breaks in between Trek difficulty level : Moderate Date of journey :  17 jun 2017 It was start of the rainy season and the wait is finally over for the monsoon trekking. This time we decided to explore a hill - Tadiyandamol. About the Place:  Tadiandamol is the highest mountain of Kodagu district. Situated at a height of 1,750 meters above the sea level, it is the fourth highest peak in Karnataka after Mullayanagiri, Baba Budangiri and Kudremukha peaks. The journey : Two of my friends decided to travel by Bike, while I chose to travel by Bus. We started our journey at around 1:30pm from Bangalore. It almost took 6 hours for me to reach the last bus station called Kakkabe. From her...

All these times, me and my friends roamed places outside Bangalore and we never thought of exploring anything inside Bangalore. So, this time we decided to explore few places around Bangalore. My friend Shashi came up with few list of places in Bangalore to explore on weekend. After sorting the list, we decided to visit three new places which were unheard all these years -  The Big banyan tree, Turahalli forest and Omkar hills . We started our journey at 1:30PM from Domlur, Bangalore. Though the distance of travel to Big banyan tree is just 20km, the heavy traffic inside the city made us to take more than 1hr to reach our destination. The Big Banyan tree : The Big Banyan tree is a 400 year old tree and considered to be the 4th biggest banyan tree after world's biggest tree at Andra pradesh, Kolkata and Adyar tree at chennai. The main tree had over the years spread out widely with several aerial roots. With thousands of such roots spread out, the tree covers a area of appro...