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2014 – One of the best years in my life and I would like to tag it as ‘Adventurous Year’, because of some of the adventurous trips J , most importantly managed to cover most of the places which were pending from long time.  Here it comes, Memorable moments of 2014…!!!   January – Trip to Mallalli Falls: Date: 11th & 12th Jan 2014 This was the first trip in the year 2014. In fact this was the 5th time  I had planned to visit Mallalli falls, Previous 4 times i could not  make it, due to one or the other reason it was getting cancelled.  Finally I have executed this trip as per the plan. Mallalli Falls is situated in the northern region of Kodagu District. Mallalli falls is situated around 25 km from Somwarpet and 265 km from Bangalore. February – One day trek to Savandurga:  Date: 1 st Feb 2014 Savandurga is around 60 km from Bangalore towards Magadi road. The hill is considered to be among the largest m...

Honnemaradu is around 27 Kms from Sagara, because road is not so good it will take minimum 1 hour to reach from Sagara. From almost one year we were trying to get permission for Honnemaradu, finally we managed to get it this year. One personal advice is do not expect any luxury at this place, just enjoy the nature.   Bharathiya Sahasa Samanvaya Samsthe is taking care of activities in this place. Seriously we should appreciate the great work of this organisation. Nowhere around this place we will find plastic or any other garbage.  Even nearby villagers are supporting this organisation to keep this place clean. Dr. Swamy & Namito is running this organisation.   We reached base camp around 10.00 a.m. Mrs. Namito was there and she explained us about the activities. We were allocated one room to dump all our luggages, later breakfast was served for us, and luckily we were the only batch on that day at this place.            ...

Last trip of the year 2014; it was planned well in advance. Deepu started mail thread almost 2 months before so that everyone can apply for leave on 26th December. Dates were finalised before we decided about the place, as always Deepu & Seena were organisers for this trip. Our next challenge was to decide place. Initially we thought of bike ride to Kanyakumari but last moment we changed our plan, since we got slot in Honnemaradu. We were trying for the permission from past one year. Finally it we got slot on 26th and 27th December.   Though we got slot on 26th we decided to start our journey on 24th night only and visit places around Sagara. Initially when we planned for this trip we were group of 15 people, but as usual at last moment couple of people dropped out of this trip. Finally 13 people turned out for this trip and we left Bangalore in 3 cars around 11.30 p.m. on 24th night. Sanju and me reached Seena’s home around 9.00 p.m. only and we were waiting for rest of t...

Dandeli trip will be incomplete if we don’t do Kali River rafting, since we didn’t get a chance for rafting on first try. Though we visited   Syntheri Rocks   and other places around, trip was not completed without rafting. We were eagerly waiting for the update from the form house guy.  We were informed that rafting may start around 9.00AM and be ready by 8.00AM. Finally around 8.30AM they have confirmed that rafting will start and you can go and pay the fee.   We rushed towards Jungle lodges and resorts (We need to pay and get receipt here for the rafting; from here they will take us to rafting place from government vehicle). They will charge Rs.1550/- per head (including transport) for rafting.  By the time we reached already it was too crowded and there was a long ‘Q’ waiting for their turn. We managed to get a slot and finally we reached rafting place around 10.00AM. Dandeli river rafting (also known as Kali river rafting) will be conducted ...