Trip to Shivanasamudra, Melkote, Tonnur Lake.

It was almost 5 months that we school friends went out on a trip. So we decided to go out on weekend and choose Shivanasamudra, Talakadu, Melkote and Tonnur Lake.

We hired a Innova and started from Bangalore at 6.30 on a Sunday morning. It was Anjan, Dinesh, Lakshmi Kanth, Sanjay, Tejas and myself who eventually made it. we reached Shivanasamudra at 9.30am and the majestic sight of water fall made us to forget everything else. Initially few of them stepped into water and later most of them got into water one by one. We got the Jacuzzi bath and a photo session for a while. We had read that this fall is made of twin waterfall called Gaganachukki and Barachukki. Once we were into water, we were not bothered to discover that. Also we got to know that we were lucky to get that much amount of water during this season.

Shivanasamudra Falls

Picturesque place  @Shivanasamudra

We should have gone to Talakadu after this according to plan but the driver told us that the water flow is very less. So we had breakfast to start moving towards Melkote which was accompanied by a decent nap  and reached at 1.30pm. The pond which is called Kalyani was huge and superb and we just made it to Narasimha Temple but Cheluvanarayana Temple which closed at 2.30pm. Both Temples were built some 70 years ago. This spot especially the Kalyani  has been picked by many directors for shooing including film Guru, Aptharakshaka and many. We were hungry and had puliogere in an Iyengari hotel which tasted awesome and this dish is famous here.

Narasimha Temple @Melkote

Kalyani @Melkote

Finally we reached Tonnur Lake at 4.00pm, very huge built by Tippu Sultan and has a history of never getting dried up during any season of the year. We fully relaxed and spent some quality time here by having snacks which  we got parceled. Soon it was time for sunset and we enjoyed it till the very end and started our journey towards Bangalore at 7.00pm.

Sunset @Tonnur Lake

Sunset @Tonnur Lake

This trip was not so very exciting but definitely a tension reliever and much needed break from usual corporate world. Thanks to all who made this possible.

NIGHT-OUT RIDE (a perfect weekend)

It was like any other Saturday, My friends and I had put in a hard week at internals and we were looking forward to go out and do something stupid and crazy. Then we decided for a night-out. Totally it was 11 bikes and 21 of us left our college late in the night at 10. Thanks to Rajeev Prasad and Shiv Sagar for arranging extra bikes. We were about to leave the city, soon one of our bike got punchured and took some time to fix it and left the city at 11.


Soon it started drizzling. There was a beautiful smell of the earth in the air.  It was really a very pleasant ride in rain. This was interrupted again by another punchure. But this time we were in the outskirts and threw that bike in a petrol bunk on highway and few bikes had 3 people.It was Kanakapura, 60km from Bangalore where we rested a while and reached SANGAM at morning 3.

Trust me this turned out to be a very nice ride with absolutely no traffic on the road to worry  about till the last 90th km of ride. The last few kms to Sangam is an enjoyable drive through the ghat roads. Drizzling rain made it even more thrilling. Soon the rain disappeared and some started preparing for chicken barbecue and some started lighting up campfire. Unfortunately the firewood was wet and the effort to set up campfire went in vain. Thanks to Vinod for giving his best to light up the coal in wet weather. Thanks to Swaroop for bringing the Barbecue set. Having grilled chicken in that weather is heavenly. Thanks to Nauman for preparing masala and grilling it. It was 6kg of chicken and everybody had enough. Some started boosing and were high in the morning.


It was 6 in the morning and the majestic sight of sunrise with the confluence of Rivers Cauvery and Arkavathi which is called Sangam is awesome and the sound it makes is pleasant and worth spending some time. We spent few hours and left for Chunchi Falls, this is a small water falls on the way to Sangam. Reaching this falls involves a kind of treck for some metres. This is a nice place to relax and we did so. It was afternoon when we left for Bangalore and we came across picturesque hills all around us till Kanakapura. We had some mishap in between, without which a night-out ride becomes incomplete.

Then we went to a daba on highway for brunch, by this time the punchured bike was fixed and we were towards Bangalore. Thanks to Ashok Keni for a wonderful NICE road which made us to reach Bangalore city within no time. This was a perfect nightout which made us  forget everything in this world.The most interesting was among 11 bikes, few didnt had documents and some rided with no DL and prasanna was the only one who was caught and luckily he had those. The riding was the most exciting, thrilling and the sexy part in this nightout.
UNFORGETABLE!!!!

Thanks to  RAJEEV, SACHIN, PRASANNA, SATHISH, VIKKY,SHAH, SHASHI'S, SHIV SAGAR, KIRAN, NAGRAJ,SWAROOP UMESH, YASHAS, SANTHOSH, SOOGURESH, SHARATH, VIJAY, VINOD, SRINIVAS AND MYSELF.