The Traveller

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Nandi Hills Revisited

We were thinking of going out for an outing on Friday night. This was the criteria: the place should be near to Bangalore and must have a nice weather. We thought of Nandi Hills, Bheemeshwari, Madikeri and even Nagarhole. We ruled out BR Hills as anyway we will be going there in another two weeks.

However none of us (in case you're not our regular, us refers to me and Ankur) could zero in to any of the places. Then I had an idea. Lets go to sleep.... the very first name that would come to our mind the next day... we will be going there.

The next day was Saturday (obviously as the previous day was Friday) and Ankur woke before me. So going by the rules, he was the one who would be thinking of a place... and voila... the first name that he thought of was Nandi Hills.

So there was nothing to pack; Nandi hills is just 60 Km from Whitefield. I am not going to repeat about
the route and all. You can find all those in my first (very nostalgic) blog post here:
http://thetravellerweare.blogspot.in/2011/09/nandi-hills-yet-another-ancient-hill.html

Time really flies. It has already been a little more than two years since we went there first. Here are some of the pictures from the trip for you.

Drongo

Monkey

Nandi

Dhutra Flower

Robin

A Tree

View From Top

Hotel and Viewpoint

Time of travel: Dec, 2013

The Konkan Trail

It's been really a while since I last wrote a blog. Most of the previous blogs were written by Soma. So now that I'm writing this one, I better make it short!

As far as I can recall, about a year back, we chanced upon a blog on St. Mary's Island. Soon after, this place found its place in our famous list of "1 trillion places to see before we die".

So, according to our research, we chalked out a circuit, and along with St. Mary's, we included Jog Falls and Murudeshwar. Luckily the whole circuit falls almost under the famous Konkan Coast.

On 11th October, 2013, the great explorers, Soma, me and our good old Sparky, set out for the Konkan Trail. We followed it in this order: Jog Falls->Murudeshwar->St.Mary's Island (Udupi). I'm listing down the individual blogs here and you can follow those to get the detailed info regarding that place.

Jog Falls: http://thetravellerweare.blogspot.in/2013/11/jog-falls-beauty-at-its-best.html

Murudeshwar: http://thetravellerweare.blogspot.in/2013/10/murudeshwar-bless-us-lord-shiva.html

St. Mary's Island: http://thetravellerweare.blogspot.in/2013/10/st-marys-island-basalt-wonder.html

And here are some of the shots for you to enjoy.