Shantisagar lake (Davanagere)


Duration : 2 days
Distance covered : 750km (Bangalore -Shantisagar- Davanagere - Vanivilas -Bangalore)
Way of travel : Travera
Date : 21st, 22nd March, 2008

21st March

   It all started with a plan of attending our team mate's marriage. Friday morning, we were able to  start early at 5am. After having special "thatte idli" at katsandra ( near Tumkur), we headed towards Davanagere thinking about lunch menu in marriage :) After marriage, none of us wanted to come back to Bangalore for weekend.... I visited to Shantisagar lake almost 2 years back and we decided to have evening tea there. Everyone enjoyed the green fields on the Chennagiri route and rain which was playing hide & seek added more kick of enjoyment to the trip.

Shantisagar is the biggest man-made lake in asia.Its 40km from Davanagere. Local tradition describes its construction to a rich courtesan by the name of Shantavve, who probably lived in 10th century CE 
hmm.... i bet everyone enjoyed the breakfast in katsandra :)
one more stop @ Chitradurga A1 Plaza
Mr. Mansoor and Mr. Pattar enjoying the colourful kesaribath !
Our full team 
Wait.. thats not the channel we were targeting !
Shantisagar lake.... Its 10 miles in length and 7 miles in width and irrigates 70,000 acres of land. 

 one more view ..
Greenery around the channel shows the real reason why they are build in first place.
water channel.. the life line for 1000's for former. And if i fall.. my final line :)
  its an aerial route for water ....!!!  i was sitting right on the middle of this in the first photo

 a better view... this was build decades back.  Still in bangalore, ppl are finding hard to buil small  flyover !!!
one more view.. 
spending a "class" time....
  smiles all around.. 
could not get into the big channel on the top.. satisfying ourself in the smaller water channel :P
 Waiting for tea in rain can change the looks :P
with our vehicle.. 

 Its always wonderful to travel in a big group... having dinner in open air and argue about some stupid subject till late night.. was the real fun of the tour. 

2nd Day continued in "http://kiransagar.blogspot.com/2008/03/chitradurga-vanivilas.html"

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Location: Davangere, Karnataka, India

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