ChitraDurga + VaniVilas

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 the old times....
Chtiradurga City in the background
the popular "obavvana kindi".. trying to recreate the scenario :)
TEAM IBM

next target : Vani Vilas dam.....
   Its also called as Marikanave. and this place is around 20 km drive from Hiriyur on a deviation from NH4. The dam was built by the Mysore Maharajas pre-independence across the river Vedavathi.
this dam is standing from a Century !! 
a nice view of the dam....
one more view.. 
still remember the look on the face when we realised its leaking !
time for some water sports...

nagaraj threw almost all the stones in the shore, into water while trying to get the max no. of hopps
pick of the day... a perfect photo
mother nature is the best artist in the world...
 
can you remember the slow song from "Hucha" .. the same dam. 
dam is compared pretty clean i should say..
Channel water going out of the dam
hmm... enough of lakes and dams.. time to get into water :)
we got down to fresh up for 5 min.. it took more than 1 hour for our driver to drag us out of the water :))

Finally.. we reached Bangalore at 11pm on Saturday with hopes of making team building activity more often in near future :p


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Location: Chitradurga, Karnataka, India

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