Treks and Travels

5 Feb 2009

Plastic free Nilgiris!!

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27 December 2008 Below is a picture of the dumping yard of Ooty. An area supposed to be green is filled with filth, a disgrace for the hill station and to ecologically sensitive Nilgiris biosphere. In Ooty, I saw several … Continued

23 Jan 2009

Avalanche

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27 December 2008 Avalanche is a place 26 km from Ooty famous for the dam by the same name and tribal settlements. It was not in our Ooty trip itinerary but strange circumstances on that day made us to visit … Continued

16 Jan 2009

Lepakshi

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11 January 2009 This was my first trip to Andra Pradesh in recent years!! My earlier trip to Andra Pradesh before was to Tirupathi 20 years ago. I feel that Andra Pradesh has a general impression of being a hot … Continued

12 Jan 2009

Pykara Lake, Ooty

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26 December 2008 The options for this Chirstmas vacation were limited. Though I and my wife wanted to go for a long trip and far off place in India, it would put lot of strain on my one year old … Continued

4 Jan 2009

Manchanabele Dam

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21 December 2008 It is a small dam near Bengaluru. I liked the first view of the Dam while driving from Big Banyan Tree. There is a road that goes along the backwaters of the dam. Contrary to my belief, … Continued

30 Dec 2008

Hulikere Kalyani

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15th November 2008 Sun had already set when we reached Hulikere. Since it would not take much time to see the place, we decided to make a quick visit before it is completely dark. The tar road naturally turned into … Continued

25 Dec 2008

Belavadi

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15th November 2008 It was another not so visited place in our Hoysala trip. Though quite a number of people have heard about Belavadi and in spite of being just 10kms from Halebidu, Belavadi is not frequented by tourists. Belavadi … Continued

23 Dec 2008

Devarayanadurga

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23rd November 2008 Krishna was asking me for a long time to go on a trip to some place near Bengaluru. The destination we decided was Devarayanadurga, near Tumkur. The motive of the trip was to get take some good … Continued

16 Dec 2008

Halebidu

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15th November 2008 Halebidu was once the capital of Hoysala Empire. It was called Dwarasamudra (Entrance from Ocean) during those days mainly because of a huge lake. Early 14th century saw an attack from the rulers from Delhi who sacked … Continued

5 Dec 2008

Manjarabad fort

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16 November 2008 This was a bit of an odd man out in my tour of Hoysala Temples. This fort was added in the itinerary to break the monotonous visit of temples. Manjarabad fort is in Donigal on NH 48, … Continued

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