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Duration : 0.75 days Distance covered : 145+145 km Way of travel :  Car Date : 14-06-2008 Hogenakal : Its around 150Km from Bangalore and one has to pass Hosur - Rayokote - Palakkad to reach this place. The other route is through Dharmapuri which is 30km more and known for not so good roads !!     As it appears like "HOGE" (that is smoke in Kannada Language) coming from the top of  "KALLU" the rocks when the water falls on it, it is said HOGENAKAL Our team should dedicate this trip to Kamalahasan !!! yes.. we all planned to see Dashavatharam in the weekend but due to unavailability  of the tickets in any theatre,it lead to a long drive to this place where one can see more than ten avatars live :)) latest photo of elevated high way to electronic city  Started at 11.30am from Bangalore and stopped for lunch in a thamilian daba (thaba!!) it was a nice drive through the greenary have to cross this valley to reach hogenakal even thou

 a cool bike ride in hot summer  Duration : 0.75 days Distance covered : 90+90 km (Bangalore to Mekedhat) Way of travel :  Bike Date :  29th March 2008        Mekdhat (Sangama)   : May be its the nearest and dearest place for the ppl in bangalore. Especially for a   college or office group who want to chill out in the weekend. It can be realised if we see the number of vehicle (specially mini buses) which comes only in the weekends to this place.       Even though, its not the right time(season) to visit this place, we four decided to go for a ride just to prove that we are still young to drive 200 kms in a day :))  We started at 7am.. road up to Kanakapura is excellent and after that.. its a little exercise for the bike as well as to our back. Breakfast time at Vaishnavi palace... on the way to Kanakapura River Cauvery heading towards Thamilnadu... ppl were finding one or other reason to be in water.. :)) have to do some rock climbing, if u w

Duration :  2 days Distance covered :  750km  (Bangalore -Shantisagar- Davanagere - Vanivilas -Bangalore) Way of travel :  Travera Date  : 21st, 22nd March, 2008     Continued from " http://kiransagar.blogspot.com/2008/03/ShantisagarDavanagere.html " 2nd day : 22nd March Saturday morning... after having the popular "Butter dosa of Davanagere".. we headed toward our next target Chitradurga.      Chitradurga   is just 200km from Bangalore and 70kms from Davanagere. Its famed for its massive Kallina Kote (Palace of Stone) and also known as The Fort of seven rounds (ಏಳುಸುತ್ತಿನಕೋಟೆ),made by the Nayak Palegars. It has 19 gateways, 38 posterior entrances, a palace, a mosque, granaries, oil pits, four secret entrances and water tanks. place of stay.. officers club in Davanagere Chitradurga - its the 2nd best and biggest fort in South India...   our team seriously listening to the words of  guide... each and every stone tells a story of t