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Magadi Ranganatha Swamy temple is one of the weekend gateways around Namma Bengaluru. Temple is located around 50Kms away from Bengaluru. History of Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple: The main idol of the god in this temple is facing West, Hence the name Paschima Venkatchalapathy, Magadi is also called as Dakshina Tirupathi which means south Tirupathi. It is said that Lord Ranganatha swamy statue size is growing year by year, so it also called as Beleyo Ranganatha swamy. While coming back from Savandurga we visited this temple. Many movies were shooted around this temple. Other places around Magadi are, Savandurga & Thippagondanahalli (T.G.Halli).   In a single day we can cover all these places, but if your planning for Savanduraga trekking its suggested to start early morning and get down by 11.00 Am and while coming back to Bengaluru we can visit other places. 

Hemavathy dam (also called as Gorur Dam) one of the must visit places around Hassan, which offers a beautiful view to the visitors. The sight is more attractive when the gates of the reservoir are open and the water gushes down in a lovely manner. When gates are closed, it’s not suggested to visit this place. Best time to visit this place is monsoon and we were lucky enough to visit this beautiful place on the rite time. From Hassan its around 25Kms away (around 205 Kms away from Bengaluru) and roads are too good to reach this wonderful place. Even we can stop on the way in couple of places to see the beauty of Dam’s back water. While coming back from Mudigere we planned to visit this place, It took around 30 mins to reach Gorur from Hassan but spent more time park our vehicle because of huge crowd. From main entrance we need to walk a quite distance to reach the gates. There is no entrance fee to enter the Reservoir. To capture the beauty of water flow in on...

Drive in monsoon will be always awesome, but with the bunch of crazy people it will be even more fun. When we decided for a long drive, we thought of some places which are around Chikkamagaluru. Since over we decided for long drive in a last minute, challenge was to get a decent home stay for our trip. Even though we have n-number of home stays around Chikkamagaluru spent some time to get one. Finally we booked Robusta Valley Stay (Contact number 099866 28555). Homestay is around 35 away from Chikkamagaluru and very much close to Mudigere. Mudigere is around 255 Kms away from Bengaluru. Considering the road conditions we can reach this place easily with in 5 hours. Started early morning on Saturday, and plan was to have delicious Tuppa Dose in Gajanana Hotel – Haasan on the way. Since Karan had been many times before and suggested this place for breakfast. One should taste Dose at this place whenever you are around Haasan.   It’s not the same taste of Dose, It’s totally dif...

Kailasagiri is one of the weekend gateways around  Bengaluru.  This place is around 85Kms away from Bengaluru, nearest town is Chintamani. Kailasagiri is locally know as Ambajidurga. There are 3 temples inside the Kailsagiri cave and one big stage inside the cave. Heard they will give this rent for some devotional activities. Still this place is under construction, hopefully it will be done soon! This place will be open for the visitors from morning 9.00AM to 6.00PM, one should not miss the lunch provided at this place.  If some one is traveling in own vehicle, before reaching Chintamani town there is a deviation to this place (Land mark is Petrol Bunk). Better to visit this place on own vehicle so that we can cover couple of other places on the same day.  Other near places are Kaivara, Aalam Giri & Murugamalla. Best time to visit this place is in monsoon, since there are couple of dams near this place and can see water only ...