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Ride to Yelagiri Hills

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Sometimes more than the destination we will enjoy the journey; Ride to Yelagiri hills is one of those journeys.  Yelagiri (Elagiri) is around 165 KMs from Bengaluru. One should take Bengaluru – Chennai Highway to reach yelagiri.  Ride to Yelagiri is my first ride with this group. Vedesh and Prajwal planned for this ride and asked me to join for this ride. Me and Nagesh joined them for this ride.  Yelagiri was in my wish list from long time but couldn’t execute it. Finally we planned for this place. We decided to start early in morning and return back on the same day. Gathered near nice road around 7.00AM and started our journey to Yelagiri.  Since road condition is awesome it will not take more than 3 hours to reach this place (even including your short breaks).   Once we take deviation from the national high way it will be single road stretch to reach Yelagiri.   The uphill ride with 14 hair pin bends on this ghat road will pro...

Drive through Nagarhole Forest

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One more unplanned long drive! Its been almost 4 years we went out with this gang.   Pradeep and Anil were in Bangalore for vacation, instead of meeting our buddies in some coffee shop we thought of going for long drive. We thought of couple of other places initially, but finally we decided to take a drive through Nagarhole Forest and stay at Kutta. Anil booked Home stay for us and we are all set for one more long drive. From Bangalore Nagarhole Forest is around 250Kms we have to take route towards Mysore – > Hunsur – > Nagarhole . Friday early morning around 3.30AM we started from Bangalore and Reached Nagarhole and inquired for the Safari, but by they said we need minimum 10 people per vehicle to go for Safari! We waited for some time and clicked some pics around. Morning mist provided us some of beautiful clicks.  We waited for more than 1 hour, because of week day no one turned up for Safari. In search of wild animals we traveled in the fo...