Location: Madhugiri town, Tumkur district Distance: 110 km from Bangalore, 43 km from Tumkur How to reach there: Best is private vehicle. Public transport can be hardly found and may not be convenient. Journey time: 2 hrs Route: Bangalore – Rajkumar Road – Tumkur road – Dobbaspet – Take right under the flyover – Koratagere…
Location: Chamarajanagar district District Headquarter: Chamarajanagar Distance: 210 km from Bangalore, 90 km from Mysore Journey time: Around 4 hrs from Bangalore How to reach there: By KSRTC bus via Mysore or Kollegal to BR Hills, private vehicle or bikes. Please note no bus is available from BR hills to K.Gudi. So private vehicle is…
Location: Chamrajanagar district District Headquarter: Chamrajanagar Distance: 135 km from Bangalore Journey time: Around 2.5 hrs How to reach there: KSTDC tour package, break journey on KSRTC buses and Private vehicle. However, if you want to take bath in the falls and spend more time then you should hire a private vehicle. Route: 1. Bangalore…
Mysore airport was inaugurated by Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyrappa on 15th May 2010. With this the tourism and cultural capital of karnataka is on the air map of India. Now onwards tourist can fly directly from destination like Mumbai and Chennai soon. This is just the first phase and it should be able to…
This was my 7th visit to Mysore. With every visit I started to like Mysore more. It was a very short visit lasting just over 24 hours. As a city Mysore is quite calm and can as a rejuvenation trip. First we quickly saw St Philomena’s church which around half a kilometer from Sadar bus…
On the way to Talakad at Malavalli lake Yesterday I went for the longest ride on a two wheeler driving myself. In all four of us went to Talakad. Official sources show Talakad is 130 km from Bangalore but I feel it was longer. May be because of the long driving on winding roads of…
Kote Venkataramana Temple was built towards the end of 17th century around the time of Chikka Deva Raya (a Mysore Wodeyer king). The rulers of Mysore had bought the city of Bangalore from the Mughal empire. Kote in Kannada means fort, so literally it means Fort Venkataramana Temple. It is located just besides Tipu Sultan’s…
My latest trip was to Magadi, Savandurga and Manchanabele Dam. Out of this I had already visited Manchanabele dam earlier. Let me share how the idea of this tour came up. When I went to Shivaganga, on the way I found a circle with a yellow Karnataka tourism board. It says left turn takes to…
Me and my friend planned to leave for this trip early in the morning by 6 am. The night earlier I hardly slept. I called him up around 5.30 am, at 6 am and then again at 7.30 am – no answer. Lol! dude was fast asleep. He called up around 9 am and told…
