We started from home on 1st April at 7PM and got a BMTC bus to KGBS. All the roads were crowded and it took 45 min. to go from Corporation circle to Mysore Bank circle, which is lesstan 2 KMs. Most of the people got down from the buses and started walking.
After sometime, our bus driver got irritated with the traffic and said, he is not going towards bus station and asked the passengers to take another bus going to bus station. We had to switch to a different bus crossing all the traffic. After all the stunts, we reached KGBS at around 10PM. Our bus was at 10:30PM. We were waiting in KGBS and dad was trying to control me not to go near the buses. Finally the wait ended at 12:30AM, when the bus arrived on platform.
We reached Chikmagalur at 5AM on 2nd April. We had booking in Soundarya Residency near the bus stand. We checked-in into hotel and slept 7Am. We got ready by 8AM and had breakfast in the attached restaurent there. By then our cab was ready.
At 9AM, we started towards Mullyanagiri. Reached the place at around 10AM. Thought there was not much greenery due to hot summer this year, the road to Mullyanagiri was very scenic. We had to climb up to Mullyanagiri peak. This is the highest peak in Karnataka. There is a small temple on top of the hill. Though it was sunny, the wind was very cold and I started shivering.
Some photos near Mullyanagiri.
On the way:
At Mullyanagiri:
From there we went to Seetalayyanagiri. This is a very beautiful old temple.
At Seethalayanagiri:
From there we went to Honnamala falls. This does not look like a water fall. But is good place to enjoy sometime in water.
Dada hired cab for two days. But the driver seems to be in hurry and wants to go back to town early. We could understand his feelings as it was the big day for all cricket fans - 2011 world cup final match.
Then we headed towards Baba Budanagiri. This place was closed for some renovation, so we had to skip it. Then we went to Manikyadhara falls. This is near Baba Budanagiri. There was no water in fall and there was a board which says "anyone taking bath in the fall should leave their clothes there". So, we skipped it.
The cab driver was very happy that we didnt spend time there and came back early. Then he said, he would show rest of the places next day and took us back to Chikmagalur. There was no place to have lunch. So, we too wanted to go back to town and have our lunch.
We reached Chikmagalur by 1PM. Had lunch and then went to a muncipal park at 3PM.
The park is big and had a toy train too. They said they will run train only if they have enough people. So we were waiting for more people to come. A big family came at 4PM and we did a toy train trip around the park. Then raomed around the park sometime.
Reached hotel at 6PM.Took some rest and had dinner.
Day 2 [3 Apr]:
we got ready by 8AM and started for Kemmanagundi. We reached Kemmanagundi at around 11AM. Its a small hill station. It was not scenic as expected. Dad's photos of his previous trip [in May 2008 with his friends] had so much of greenery. Even he was disappointed with the look. We roamed around the place for sometime and headed to Kalathagiri falls.
The place was too crowded. There was some festival going on and no place even to stand there. Someone said, they were celebrating BCCI's [Its not Indian team] victory
in 2011 world cup cricket. Crazy people...
We could not spend any more time there and started back to Chikmagalur.
Reached Chikmagalur at 2PM. Had lunch and got our return bus to Bangalore. I didnt have anything from morning and was not feeling well and puked in the bus. The bus didnt have open windows and dad and mom had to pack all of it in their kerchieves... until they reached home.... yaaak.
Reached home from a not so good trip at 9PM .
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