Bike Trip: chandru

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Bike Trip

Nov 07, 2006 21:13

I guess this photo sums up the trip. 8 days , 1635 Km , 2 bikes , 3 people.
rgururaj ,manjlanata, and me.

This is the route we took from 29th Oct 2006 to 4th Nov 2006. Mostly covering south Karnataka and west Karnataka.
Day 1
Meter reading : 29033.65 18345.55
Started from manjlanata house at around 5:45 in the morning.

Bags , Map of Karnataka , Fuel for the bikes , all check . manjlanata's mom doing pooja to the bike for our safe journey for the next 8 days.
For the next 8 days it just the bikes , us and the road. No Outlook for the next 8 days, no gmail, no formal shoes, no bus, no Fm 91, no work.

At around 6:00 am we left Bangalore and headed towards Mysore, the road was nice, more importantly the weather was awesome.
Our first stop was at madur for breakfast , had Madur vada for breakfast and headed towards srirangapatna. just before entering srirangapatna towards the left we visited "Aale mane" jaggery factory.

The Sugarcane juice is boiled in such huge containers for 2 hrs and are poured into the mold which after cooling becomes the jaggery we know.

the Sugar cane is crushed to get the juice, the juice flows through the pipe to the large containers then the cooled liquid is poured in the mold

after a while this becomes jaggery

apparently this is one of the industry where there is no waste products produced. The pulp left after removing the juice of sugarcane is used as firewood to boil the sugarcane juice.

After visiting the Aale mane, we headed towards ranganatitu

bought carrots for our travel in the market.

This is not the right time to visit rangantitu , hence we could see only few ( to be precise 4) species of birds.

And there are about 15 crocodiles

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Later we headed to Byalkuppe, Tibetian Refugees rehabilitation scheme. The monastery is about 7 years old and has a Buddha statue which is about 60 feet.

Then our journey continues towards madikeri , and our day ends by spending the evening in place called Raja seat.

Day 2
Meter reading : 29318.4 18630
Started heading towards Kukke

some BJP campaign on bikes

. Kukke Subramaya temple

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On the way to darmastala we have a near death experience, our tube burst. The bike wobbled and fortunately we were going at lower speed and manjlanata was able to stop the bike. The flat tire

the bike after the tire was removed for puncture

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The road from Kukke towards Bangalore is bad

so if you can avoid it please do so. But unfortunately there are no other roads.
We came to the Mangalore - Bangalore high way and took a deviation to darmastala. I must say the road is awesome. It was about 5:00 in the evening and the weather was perfect.

Darmastala temple entrance

darmastala temple

and on the way back some other temple

Day 3
Meter reading : 29471.8 18787
We started heading towards Chikmagaluru through charmudighats. this Stretch is one of the scenic roads we took.

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Some of the Indian Road blocks

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By Afternoon we were at Belur , a separate post is necessary for only belur and halebedu. Will do it as soon as possible.

and Halebedu

and our day ended at chickamagaluru.

Day 4
Meter reading : 29636.65 18954
from chickmagalu we went north towards bababudangiri and kemangundi. early in the morning. It was freezing.
We could barely see the road.