Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Part I - A weekend in Dakshina Kannada and Shimoga...

Hi Folks, well it's been long time since my first blog, was hooked up with some severe office work.

Okay, here in this post I would like to share my travel experience with my best buddies on the following places,
Byndoor, Kundapura, Jomlu theertha, Kudlu theertha, Shimoga, Gajanur, Kundadri :)

It was our college mate's marriage at Shimoga on April 1st 2012. So, we planned a full weekend masti travel drive to the coastal Karnataka. With the plan finalised, my friend Rajesh booked an Innova and we started off that friday night. After picking up everyone at their board point, as per the plan we decided to go to Byndoor first, we wanted to avoid the normal route[Bangalore->Kunigal->Hassan->Sakaleshpur-> Uppinangadi->B.C Road-> Mangalore-> Kundapura-> Byndoor]. Instead, we opted to go via Bangalore->Tumkur-> Arasikere->Shimoga Bypass-> Kollur-> Byndoor.

During the overnight journey, there was some surprise for our buddies Pradeep and Ramya. Their birthdays fell in the same week and hence we thought of celebrating it on the national highway at 12:00AM. It was a memorable b'day for them...



The next morning at 5:00 AM we were at Kollur, some of us had goddess Mookambika devi darshana and others were still taking nap. Then we started off to Byndoor, it took us around 45 min to reach the view point of the Byndoor beach.

Here's my first click of the beach,


It was really awesome time over there, we Bangaloreans are fond of beaches, water falls, scenic beauties etc :).

After taking some snaps there, we headed towards Kundapura[Rag's Aunt's place]. We had our early morning refreshments in their house and went to the beach to have some fun. We were amazed to see such a calm beach with no people thronging and it was also clean. We were overwhelmed with joy while just hearing the sound of the waves with no other noise.



Then we came back to the house and had a fresh bath from the water pumping out of the well [remember never miss an opportunity to take bath in the well water], then we had some breakfast. Thanks to Rag's aunt for preparing those delicious food.

It was time to start again and we headed towards Jomlu theertha a water fall spot near Hebri.



The spot was really calm and a treat for the nature lovers. Since, there was no rain the water level was a bit less. But we had something to cheer.



By the time we left Jomlu theertha it was around 2:30PM. Then we headed towards Koodlu theertha, we couldn't reach the falls as it was late and some localites also suggested not climb the hill after 6:00 PM since it will be very difficult for anyone to come back in the dark. So we had some time pass at the foothill.


It was 6:30 PM, had to plan for the night rest. Everyone shared their bits and pieces of thought's and finally we decided to reach Shimoga.


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