006 - A Beautiful year...

Thank God for such a beautiful Year.... It was not very eventful year for my career and profession like last year but at personal front it was a great year....

Lot of dreams completed... Lots of unforgettable trips... Lots of love from everybody

what else one need from life....?

Thanx to my Parents,SISs,Friends for giving me your love,having trust on me and sharing many beautiful moments with me... I hope new year has much more for me to explore... so keep going keep clicking....

Have a wonderful New year 2007...........

Chikmagalur..It's all abt sipping coffee,Enjoying weather

Christmas weekend came finally ... and we are planning for this weekEnd for last one month.. with so many options in mind and no booking available..... Dandeli,Devbagh,Goa,Gokarna and many other ideas came to enjoy Christmas vacation. After making lot of google searches (love u google) and phonecalls I found one homestay in Chikmagalur but only for a night.... well we decided to go and find out abt the place...Our bikes roared early morning on Saturday 23rd,2007 and we were on the road to chikmagalur....Road was awsum to the destination.

homestay - I was worried about the homestay we booked because I didnt find much information abt it on the net but when we saw it we liked it immidiately.Rooms were neat and clean and it was inside a coffee estate.hosts were very nice and Food was Excellent.. we could stay there just for food...Mr Ansar, Owner of homestay is very frindly person we enjoyed his company and he told us lot of things abt the place etc... we were planning to go to kudremukh but he told us that Kudremukh is sealed now because of Naxal activities so we changed the plan and decided to visit mulyanagiri first day and Hebbe falls,kemmangundi next day.
two days in Chikmagalur were full of beautiful sunsets,Gr8 views,tiring walks,Chilled nights and unforgottable drives on curvy roads...... Will come back Chikmagalur.

While coming back we stoppd at Chennakesava temple at Belur.One more beautiful treat to eyes which cant be captured in Camera.

Bike Trips Till Now

While making plan for my next Bike trip on Christmas.. just thought of compiling all my old trip.. :
1) Bangalore - Nagarhole
Who all - with Abhishek.. just two of us.
Date - 14th to 16th April 2006
Route taken - Bangalore -> Mysore -> Nagarhole -> Dubare -> SriRangPattanam ->
Bangalore.
Places visited - Nagarhole national park,Golden Temple (Buddhist monestry ), NisargaDhama,Harangi Dam,Dubare Elephant Camp
Total Distance - arnd 600KM

Most Memorable thing of this trip was Spending night in tent on the beautiful River Bank at Dubare elephant camp. And ya You can't take two wheelers to Nagarhole Forest .had to face soem problem because of it:-)

2) Bangalore - Madumalai - Ooty
Who all - with some frnds
Date - Dont remember exactly.. will update later
Route taken - Bangalore -> Mysore -> Bandipur -> Madumalai -> Ooty -> Bangalore Places visited - Madumalai national Park,Ooty,Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary.
Total Distance - arnd 650KM

3) Bangalore - Hampi
Who all - with Raj
Date - 30th Sep to 2nd Oct 2006
Route taken - Bangalore -> Tunkur -> Chitradurga -> Hospet -> Bangalore
Places visited - Chitradurga Fort, Hampi.
Total Distance - arnd 800KM

Hampi is Lovely place. heaven for photography . Road is awsum other then stretch Near hospet.

4) Bangalore - Maidanhalli
Who all - with Raj and Abhishek Jaiswal
Date - 2nd Sep 2006
Route taken - Bangalore -> Madhugiri -> Maidanhalli -> Madhugiri -> Tunkur -> bangalore
Places visited - Madhugiri Fort, Maidanhalli blackbuck Sanctuary.
Total Distance - arnd 250KM

Maidanhalli is very Nice place for blackbucks photography.It's a proposed blackbuck sanctuary.Though not very well managed ,It's still a nice place for wildlife photographers.You can easily see blackbucks here.


5) Bangalore - Waynad
Who all - with Raj, Abhishek Jaiswal & Deepinder
Date - Nov 4th and 5th 2006
Route taken - Bangalore -> Mysore -> Gundulpet -> sultan Battery -> Kalpetta -> Bangalore
Places visited - muthunga national Park, Edukal caves,waterfalls
Total Distance - arnd 750KM

Waynad is awsum place like any other in Kerala, full of greenery... I can call this trip THE WET TRIP as It was raining all the time on this trip and we were drenched all the time.Driving in rain with Greenery and forest everywhere was a wonderful experience.