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Yercaud Trek I've been watching Peter's Chennai Trekkers for a while now. Having missed the Kodai - Munnar, Venkatagiri and Tada treks, I was keen to join at least this one. But, alas ... the trek to Yercaud was meant to be a four day and I was not sure if I could take days off from office. Luckily, everything worked out in the last minute, I was headed to the satellite bus station in Mysore / Mysuru road on the eve of a long weekend and hopped on to a Salem bound bus ... more» Meenmutty Trek Though, I drive thro' Wayanad almost every month and have seen the sign boards talking about Meenmutty, the first time I heard in detail about the place was last year from Arun. He and couple of friends (including Prabul) had trekked and camped there. After, seeing the pics I wanted to go there ... more» Kudremukh Trek Kudremukh is one of the first names I heard, ever since I started showing any interest in trekking. Then why didnt I do this trek all this time?
Mukurthi Trek After the hyperactive traveller bug which bit me post Meesapulimala Trek, the next in line was Kudremukh. The place had been marred by naxals recently and it was always risky to go there. Besides, there was a question of feasibility. So, the gang was downsized to just a few. Rajeev and Jamshy were ready to come and Pappan gave a 'conditional yes'. Just a couple of days before the actual date, I could get hold of the Kudremukh range officer's phone number and the trek plan bombed. Permissions to trek till Kudremukh peak was not being given and I was in no mood to go to the nearby waterfalls :( At this juncture Anil came to our rescue. He had already talked to the wild life warden @ Nilgiris, taken permissions for a trek to Mukurthi peak and looking for company, as his partner ditched him for work ... more» Subramanya Trek I really have a bad knack of ending up with the busiest and most packed up travel plans! Most of the trips/treks we've planned and done had almost zero buffer time and most of the time, its been enjoyable and trurned out to be time effective ;) This time was no different, when on thursday evening, I felt we cud drive upto Subramanya on saturday afternoon, trek from Subramanya road to Shiribagilu and drive back to Bengaluru by sunday night ... more» Kodaikanal Trip Sabitha's engagement @ Elamgulam (midway between Ponkunnam and Palai in Kerala) was a very good excuse to make another trip. Especially when I was granted a couple of days leave from the otherwise hectic work schedule :) One can think of numerous routes between Elamgulam and Bengaluru, the most obvious one being the chartered waters thro' Salem, Dindigul, Teni and Kumily, but we had other ideas ... more» Delhi Trip Pappan's sister is getting married @ Gwalior and we had to go. Pachu suggested that we take a few day's leave, book flight tickets and check up places around Gwalior. Plan sounded good, since, none of us had been to any places north of Mumbai and this was a good excuse. Well ... the whole picture changed when Shabbo sent us a map of Madhya Pradesh marked Bengaluru - Gwalior = ~ 1700kms ... thro' the heart of Andhra and Madhya Pradesh ... isnt it best to drive ???? ... more» Yana Trek After the amazing trek to Kumaraparvatha, it took us some time to come up with a new plan and bring together most people in the group - almost four months and it finally happened in the end of October. This time, the plan was for a milder trek and Yana was chosen. Yana's major attraction is a pair of tall, ponited rock formations, called Mohini Shikhara and Bhairava Shikhara. There is a legend behind these rocks attributed to the destruction of Bhairavasura induced by Mohini ... more» Kumaraparvatha Trek Many has told me that a trek to Kumaraparvatha is the most strenuous in Karnataka making this beautiful mountain in the Western ghats so enticing to me. Finally, on a friday evening - the first in June when the monsoon had just begun - we (a gang of 13) booked our tickets with KSRTC and started towards Subramanya ... more» Visakhapatnam Trip Whenever I would look at a South India map, there was a big gap towards the North East. Me and my bike had never been there!!! Hence, Visakhapatnam was marked as the last in my list of places to bike. Also, it turned out to be the furthest from Bengaluru. Pavan and my CBZ was ready as ever and we started planning from Oct 2004 ... more» Goa Trip It was a four wheel drive again ... in my Maruti Versa on a long weekend due to Diwali holidays. We decided on the Tumakuru - Shivamogga - Honnavar - Karwar route to Goa and return via Hubballi. Starting on a thursday early morning (this was the earliest I ever did - 3 AM), we hit the Tumakuru road (NH4) as early as 4'O clock. At Tumakuru we took the NH206 and sped towards Shivamogga ... more» Karwar Trip Karwar is the north - west point in Karnataka, just couple of KMs away from Goa. The most obvious route to Karwar is via NH4 (Bengaluru - Tumakuru), NH206 (Tumakuru - Shivamogga - Sagar - Honnavar) and NH17 (Honnavar, Gokarna, Karwar) with a total distance of about 521 KMs. And we had grand plans ... 7 of us in 5 bikes - 5 forcians (now motorolans) and 2 ex-forcians (still, ex forcians) ... more» Pondicherry Trip Time for another bike trip and this time I decided to visit the beaches of Pondicherry and take a ride along the rest of East Cost Road (ECR). The stretch from Mahabalipuram to Chennai was explored during the Chennai Trip. So I was to drive along ECR up till Mahabalipuram, while coming back ... more» Mangaluru Trip Managaluru is 352 kms from Bengaluru (according to the milestones i.e.) along the NH48. Once again, my trusted CBZ was with me, along with another friend. We hit the Tumakuru Road by around 4.00 on a Friday evening. Even at this time the traffic is messy in this area. But, once you go some distance in the NH4, it eases out ... more» Ooty Trip Ooty trip was a huge endurance test for my car (Maruti Versa). The Masinagudi route via the Sigur ghat was really hard on it. With 36 hair bends to climb around 1500m in just over 14 kms, this route is deemed as highly avoidable, but then its a beautiful experience for a guy behind the wheel ... more» Kanyakumari Trip Well ... this one was being planned for a long ... long time ... and visiting the land's end seemed to be a big 'project' for me. Not that I didnt try ... I did ... last december ... had to come back due to a minor accident, totally spoiling Soorji's Fiero and an SLR camera ... more» Yercaud Trip Yercaud is a hill station situated in the Servaroyan hills (Shevaroy Range) of Salem District, Tamilnadu. Its at an approximate altitude of around 4950 feets and is a nice place to be around the year ... more» Hyderabad Trip Wow !!! this was a big one. Alone in my CBZ, around 575 kms, through the National Highway 7, amidst of picturesque landscape. I started of on a friday early morning with leaves on monday and tentatively on tuesday ... more» Pookot Lake Pookot lake (also spelled Pookode or Pookodu) is situated in Wayanad amidst of the picturesque western ghats. Around 3 hours drive from Kozhikode, this was another trip by car. This time with Ashish, Aravind and Ashi's cousin ... more» Mullayanagiri Trek Chikkamagaluru is 265 km from Bengaluru and is known for coffee plantations and its scenic beauty. Mullayanagiri (aka Mulayanagiri), is part of the the Baba Budan Giri Hill Ranges here. It stands 1930 meters and is the tallest peak in Karnataka ... more» Maribetta Trek The trek to Maribetta was organized by The Wild - an adventure club in Bangalore. The club is headed by Mr. Ravishankar and is located in Jayanagar ... more» Palakkad Trip Palakkad (formerly Palghat) is around 400 kilometers from Bengaluru. The route includes two national highways. NH7 from Bengaluru to Salem and NH47 from Salem to Palakkad ... more» |
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