Alekhan falls,Charmadi

Alekhan falls

we had been to Alekhan falls on last sunday with our friends...we had lot of fun...its been very long time since we had gone for picnic ...due to heavy rain in south canara we couldn't able to make any plans....

Beauty of Charmadi ghat
We got the few information on this falls so we thought of going. The beauty of nature was awesome..We took many snaps while on the way to falls..Its very difficult to point the falls since you don't find any clue about the way to the falls. Its written on the road side board saying Allekhan falls but you have to get down few meters to reach the base of the falls.

Beautiful view
Where exactly the falls is:
Alekhan falls is on the way to kottigehara from charmadi. Its just next to the road before 4kms from Kottigehara.This water just next to a small bus stop by name 'alekhan horatti'. Since being both very easily accessible and immensely beautiful it attracts people of all minds both nature aware and 'pollution creating kind'.


Alekhan falls
The distance:65kms
The route:Udupi-->Karkal-->Ujire-->Charmadi ghat-->towards Kottigehara

Om beach Gokarna

Om beach and Apsara konda


Om beach Sunset from fort
This time we decided to go to Om beach,Gokarna. We left early morning in a tempo traveler, we were nearly 13 people in our list. First we reached Maravanthe beach,stopped for a while and clicked few snaps there. We didn't step into the water since the Maravanthe beach is known to be one of the dangerous beach. We moved towards Igdagunji temple and bowed to Lord Ganesha and took his blessings. When we reached Gokarna it was noon already, we went inside the temple and bowed to Lord Shiva. We touched atmalinga too. We had the lunch in one of poojari's house and moved towards Om beach. The road to reach the beach was not good and the wonderful thing was we have to climb the hill to reach the beach. It was 2.00pm already when we reached Om beach and it was hot too. So we stepped into the water and played in water and few people played volleyball too. The beach was crowded by foreign people. After we had a enough time pass we thought of move back. We went to see one more beach in Gokarna called paradise beach(also known as naked beach ;))
We left Gokarna and later reached Kumta. There we went to see Apsara konda falls. It was end of the season when we had gone for this picnic and falls was not in a good mood to show its real beauty.

Apsara konda
There is a old fort and from there we could see the beach too. We were there for few hours to see the sunset. After sun settled we continued our journey and thought of having evening snacks,as one of our friend was known to that place he suggested us to have benne dose(butter dosa). and it was really tasty.

Benne dose
Total distance:nearly 100kms
The route:Udupi-->Kundapura-->Idagunji-->Kumta-->Honnavara-->Gokarna-->Om beach

Kemmannu gundi

Trip to Chickmagaloor,Kemmannugundi,Shringeri


A view from Mullengiri hill

This was a amazing picnic I ever had. We all decided to go to Kemmannugundi by bike from Udupi.We had decided that we will cover maximum places for two days. So we left with our packed bags on 22Apr at 6:30am. As everyone knows there wont be much traffic in south canara and so we could reach Karkala in 30mins and had nice breakfast in hotel Swagath and continued our journey towards Kemmannugundi. We took via Kudremukh route since the charmadi ghat was spoilt fully. The route from kudremukh would be long route for us but we knew the road will be good. We went till Samse and took diversion to kottigehara. So we reached kottigehara at noon 1.00pm as decided. We couldn't had lunch there since we couldn't found any good hotels around so we adjusted with tender coconuts and biscuits. The road after kottigehara to moodigere was not good which was the hurdle for our speed. We reached Chickmagaloor at around 2.00pm and had lunch there. After lunch we thought of changing our plans,as decided we suppose to go to Kemmannugundi but before that we got to know the place called Mullengiri hill.

So we went through Kaimara and reached the hill,but before that we will get the place called Sithalayyana giri,we rested for a while there. It was really amazing and superb place to be frank. We really missed it if we had skipped that place. Really worth seeing. I never miss that place if I ever had to go there. The scenic view from the top of the hill was awesome but we have to climb nearly 1000 steps to enjoy the real beauty of the nature. We reached there around 3.30pm but still the wind was so chilling in that hot son. Once we decided we will stay there for whole night, such a chilling place it was.We spent little time over there and decided to move forward towards KG. It was nearly 30kms from Mullengiri to KG,so we thought we can reach within 30-45mins,but the road was worst which we never expected. The dirty road made us not to speed up more than 20km/hr. So it was nearly 6.30pm when we reached KG. Our previous plan was,if we could reach before 4.00pm to KG then we could continue our journey towards Shimoga and stay there for night but when we reached KG it was late and sun already settled after his duty. So we got to know from KG to Shimoga its around 70kms distance and the roads were not good moreover we had got no stamina left in us to travel again 70kms. We all exhausted. It was real nightmare to us. So we thought of staying in KG and continue to move in the morning. When we asked for a room the manager said no room availabile today since all were booked. We have no option left other than pleading them. After waiting for a while they said they can arrange a room for us. We were very happy that time,since we left all hope and we couldn't decide what we can do. We cant move out from KG since it was dark already. So we were arranged for a room there and we stayed there. Morning we woke up early and decided to reach "Z"point and shantifalls.
It was very chilling night and we got sound sleep since all were tired. We got up early and started walking towards Z point. It s nearly 3-4kms to reach Z point but our whole team was so enthusiastic to walk and reach the endpoint before sunrise(its difficult to walk later),So we did..thanks to girls who cooperated with us. We were the first group who reached the Z point. We had a nice time pass,chat and cursing each one,pulling each ones leg,fight and we started back from there and reached back to room and had breakfast and decided to vacate.
So as we planned we have to take the way to Tharikere-->Shimoga via Badravati. It was nice journey in the morning,it was so chilling morning so. We have to go through forest and there was a shade through out our journey till we reach Lingadahalli.
The Tharikere road was straight and superb so we could raise up the bike throtle 100km/hr in that road so we did ;) When we reached Shimoga it was already noon 1.00pm and it was very hot,we had watermelon and tender coconut there and moved towards Thirthhalli and we could reach by 2.00pm cos the road was good. We had lunch in one restaurant in Thirthhalli and moved towards Koppa to reach Shringeri temple. Until we reach Shringeri our whole journey was went on travelling,we didn't see anything. We reached around 3.30pm and bowed to goddess Sharadamba and took her blessings. Now we had two options either we have to skip our plans to Sirimane falls and go back to Udupi, since it was late already,else we go and see Sirimane and move. But all are decided to go to Sirimane falls and go as planned. So we went to Sirimane falls and had nice time over there,played in water. The water was very cold,it was already 5.00pm when we reached there. The best part of this falls was it pours through out the year,whenever we go we get to see water. After this picnic I nearly had been more than 5 times to this place.So after taking bath we really became energetic to move forward. We were happy because we could execute our plans properly,On the way to Sirimane two of our buddies fell from bike and that was the sad part,luckily they were not injured other than little scratch on their body.We took the short cut to reach Kudremukh ghat and we really speeded up our bikes because we had to reach down before its getting dark(traveling in ghat section could be dangerous in night),and we could reach down as we decided. We reached Karkal by 7.30pm and had snacks there in the same Swagath hotel ;) and reached Udupi around 9.00pm.
It was wonderful,lengthy and memorable journey I ever had. We really became tan due to hot sun.


Total distance:630kms
No. of days:2 days
The route(first day):Udupi-->Karkal-->Kudremukh-->Samse-->Kottigehara-->Moodigere-->Chickmagaloor-->Mullengiri-->KG hills
The route(Second day):KG hills-->Lingadahalli-->Tharikere-->Badravathi-->Shimoga-->Thirthahalli-->Koppa-->Shringeri-->Kigga-->Kudremukh ghat-->Karkal-->Udupi

Sirimane and Mogebail falls

Shringeri+Sirimane+mogebail falls


In front of Shringeri temple
This time we decided to go to Sirimane falls. This was my third trip to Sirimane falls. So we left Udupi and went by TT. First we went to Shringeri temple and later went to Kigga falls aslo known as Sirimane falls. It was a nice time pass playing in water.

Sirimane falls
Later we went to see Mogebail falls. We couldn't find proper way to reach the falls even we couldn't hear the sound of water falling too and somehow we managed to go. It was a walk in a thick forest. After walked for a while at last we succeeded to discover the falls. We couldn't go near to the falls,it was very deep. So we managed to play in water. It was chilling water and due to huge trees around, the sun rays was not entering inside the forest. We were there for few hours then we moved back to Udupi.

Mogebail falls
Sirimane is one of my favorite falls too. It will be pouring through out the year,the water wont get emptied there..thats the specialty of sirimane.

Total distance:nearly 70kms
The route:Udupi-->Agumbe-->Shringeri-->kigga-->Sirimane falls-->Mogebail falls

Madikeri,Belur,Halebidu

Madikeri+Belur+Halebidu

Golden Temple
This time we had two holidays in hand and decided to go somewhere far. So we got flashed in our mind the place called Coorg. The place known to beautiful nature and estates. So on 15th Jan we gathered in Udupi and left to Coorg in one TT. We were nearly 12 persons in our journey. We reached Coorg at noon 1.00pm since we left Udupi early. We decided to check for a room for us to stay the night in Coorg itself. We got a room and we dumped all our bags, got freshen and went to see Raja seat,which was near to our room too.
After that we planned to go to tibetean golden temple, Bailhongla. It was very lovely temple to be frank and very nicely maintained by lama's. After seeing the temple we had lunch there and decided to move towards Abbe falls.
When we reached Abbe falls it was already evening. We were disappointed when we reached Abbe falls since nobody was allowed to get into the water,we could managed to see the falls from far and took the snaps and came. It was already dark when we reached our room.

Abbe falls
We three guys went to see the Omkarashwara temple there. The architecture of the temple was different compare to our places. Later we thought of having some sweet stuffs and asked for honey cake and coffee.

Omkareshwara temple
Night we had arranged for a campfire somewhere outskirts. We got one person to arrange for the same :)
We had nice dance over there,it was a nice time pass and we had our dinner over there itself. We went back to our room around 11.30pm and had a nice sleep.
Morning we vacated our rooms and dumped our belongings in TT and moved towards Kaveri nisargadama.We saw few animals there. Later we went to Dubare,the place was famous for elephants. There we got many info on elephants.
We skipped few places in Coorg. We thought of doing trekking in Brahmagiri/Pushpagiri but we couldn't due to lack of time, didn't go to Iruppu falls,bagamandala,thalakaveri. It was our two days journey and we had planned to visit Halebidu and Belur too,So time didn't permit us to see few places,only we could visit few main places.

Halebidu Hoysaleshwara tepmple Belur Gopura Belur chennakeshava temple
We left Coorg and headed towards hasan. It was a dirty road through out our journey and that made us to skip many places. When we reached hassan it was noon and we had lunch there. After our lunch we headed towards halebidu. The temple known for its sculpture. A gem of Hoysala temple architecture, the Hoysaleshwara temple of Halebid is ornamented with a plethora of exquisite carvings and sculptures. It was built by Ketamalla, a minister of Hoysala ruler Vishnuvardhana, in the 12th century AD. It is believed that the construction of the Hoysaleshwara temple never reached completion as the Hoysala rulers were forced to relocate their capital in the face of attacks by the rampaging armies of Malik Kafur.
The Hoysaleswara temple enshrines the deities of Hoysaleswara and Santaleswara, named after King Vishnuvardhana Hoysala and his wife Queen Santala. The composite structure of the Hoysaleswara temple comprises a pair of identical temples, each with its own east-facing linga sanctuary opening on to a hall and a screened porch. As the two halls are joined together to create a spacious columned interior, the temples function as a single monument.. Its very sad thing that few of the monuments were spoilt. The more sadest thing was the present generation people carved their names on Nandi idols and many more places. Which was real painful to see.
We left Halebidu and headed towards Belur since we were running out of time. The road from hassan to Halebidu was ultimate and from Halibidu to Belur also too good. So these two roads were only the good roads in our journey.
We reached Belur in the evening, The first thing that catches one's eye, is the beautiful ornamental Gopuram of the Channakeshava Temple. It stands tall , giving a feeling that one is entering a grandiose royal court. As one steps onto the temple's sacrosanct platform, in a corner of the vast courtyard are tossed a golden horse and a temple chariot. The winged figure of Garuda, Lord Vishnu's carrier, stands at the entrance, facing the temple, its palms touching in homage. The main structure of the temple, which is a stellar, stands as a homogeneous architectural unit on a raised platform.

We left Belur and moved towards moodigere and took the charmadi ghat way. The ghat was real spoilt at that time and it took 2hrs to reach Ujire.

Travel distance:nearly 300kms
The route(first day):Udupi-->Mangalore-->Madikeri
The route(second day):Madikeri-->Hassan-->Halibidu-->Belur-->Ujire-->Udupi