Trip to Kemmanagundi

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This is my first blog, although I have traveled alot but never thought of sharing my thoughts. I don’t know what drove me to write but I decided let’s start sharing my thoughts. So we 5 friends took self-drive car from Zoom cars and on 27thDec2014 midnight we left from Bangalore. We took the following route to reach Kemmanagundi

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After Tumkur one needs to take a deviation from NH-4 and join NH-206.The traffic on this highway was relatively less compared to others. There is a stretch of 130km which is single lane and very beautiful. Around 4am we stopped in between on the highway and all of us shared all our experiences about life and one of our friend is singer who sang beautiful songs. Then we started again at 5am and then at Kadur we had tea. We then proceeded towards Birur, where one has to take a deviation towards left which leads to Lingadahalli. The road condition starts to deteriorate once the deviation is taken at Lingadahalli.This is the point where one can start getting the glimpses of the Kemmanagundi. One can see cloud covered hills and valleys creating a very beautiful view. The pollution free environment, the chilling
weather, cool breeze added the excitement. After Lingadahalli one needs to take left turn on Sh-57 and follow the Karnataka tourism boards. We had already booked a home stay “Kanthi niwas” for us. The owner James was a very courteous man. We had our breakfast and then headed towards Kalhatti falls.

Kalhatti falls:

Kalhatti falls are situated in village named as Kalhattipura. The water here comes from height of 100+ meters in front of Veerabhadreshwara temple. One can see three elephants carved on the rocks right in front of the temple, over which the water falls. We then went to the top of the falls through the stone steps placed next to the falls to get view of the falls. There was very less water however we even enjoyed there and then returned back to our home stay to have our lunch and then we got ready to head towards Kemmanagundi hills.

Kemmanagundi hills:

We headed towards Kemmanagundi hills which were around 15kms from our home-stay. The road leading to Z point was really steep and had bad patches in between. We reached there in 45 minutes to enjoy the beautiful sunset, watching the changing color of sky from orange to red to dark. The serene beauty and beautiful sky took our heart away. There is a Government guesthouse at that point. We then went back to our home-stay which took around 40 minutes to reach. James had arranged bonfire for us, we sang, danced had our dinner and then slept.

Next day morning we had our breakfast and we enjoyed cycling for some 4 to 5kms and played badminton and then headed back towards Bangalore.

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Photos

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Home-stay

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Home-stay

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Sunset

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Sunset

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Government guest house on Z point