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Trip was going as per plan until Deepu saw that Hospete board, after the last minute change in plan we reached  Hospete with out any prior preparations in terms of accommodation, somehow managed to get rooms to stay, but in the morning next question in front of us was what’s next…!!! To be frank 15 days also not enough to explore Hampi, we were there to explore Hampi in one day. From Hospete Hampi is at 13 Kms distance, which won’t take more than 20 – 30 mins. We started with Vittalla Temple which is famous for ‘Kallina Rata’ (Stone Chariot) and musical pillars.   Always I will think, if these temples were not destroyed by enemies then how beautiful it would be…!!! ‘Kallina Rata’ (Stone Chariot): As mentioned earlier one day is not enough to explore Hampi, we just visited some of the monuments. Covered as many places as possible and finally visited to Virupaksha Temple, this is the only temple which is not destroyed in Hampi. ...

On second day of our trip, we headed towards Gokarna on the way we planned to visit Shirley Falls. As i mentioned in my previous blog Yellapura is a pradise of Waterfalls, after visiting beautiful Satodi and Magodi falls it was time to visit one more water fall around this place. Shirley (Shirale/ Shirle) water falls nearly 20kms from Yellapur town. Here you can see the water falls from 100 feet height (approximately). Due to the lack of publicity this beautiful falls is still unknown to lot of people. From Yellapur town need to take Yellapur- Ankola National highway (N.H-63), approximately 18kms you will get Shirley cross on left side of road. From that cross you have to go 2.5kms in forest (mud-road) downwards. It is better to go by walk only. This water fall is a private property, we need to pay Rs.10/- per person to visit the water fall. It was a nice place to visit. You will find many more water falls in and around Yellapura especially in rainy season. But o...

Much awaited Monsoon began, had lot of plans for this monsoon but after coming back from Leh bike ride could not executed any of those plans. Deepu started mail thread regarding plan for August 15 th long weekend, decided to visit Yellapura (paradise of water falls in Karnataka  😃). Seena arranged for transportation for us. This time it was team of 14 members. All set for one more vacation, keeping huge crowd on long weekend in mind we decided to take one day off and start our journey on 13 th August itself…  😃 Finally the day arrived and we were all set to start our journey. Yellapur is around 425Kms from Bangalore and it is almost 6 hours journey since we take NH – 4 till haveri easily we can reach in 6 hours. We thought of leaving Bangalore at 10.30 PM (or max by 11.00) but heavy rain started from evening only, because of rain it got delayed to start our journey as per plan.  Finally left Bangalore around 11.30PM..!!! Day – 1:  Yellapur. Reached Y...