Chetan's Travel Diary

  5th Feb 2022 Nagarahole forest is the home for many wild life, a natural habitat for many flora and faunas. Little facts I was knowing about this forest from the internet. When I visited here it gave a totally different perspective to wildlife and forest. We reached nagarahole gate by 10am and understood that 2 wheeler is not allowed in the protected wildlife sanctuary.   The idea was to ride inside the forest range to get a feel of thick forest, but for safety reasons entry of two wheelers are restricted, from the short talk with gate keeper of KFD got to know that   there were instances of animals attack on two wheelers in past. We totally understood and headed to our stay as we have already booked for safari which will be taken in same roads. The stay in Jungle lodges and resorts was exceptional, the rooms, the facilities in the premises, the food and also the staff were very courteous, we roamed around the resort and had delicious lunch and were waiting for safari to sta

Myself n Vinay decided to go for a short morning breakfast ride. We decided to take our beloved partners with us. The place was decided as boganandishwara temple. 21st Aug 2016, Sunday morning.. We could not leave on time as decided due to obvious reasons ;) never the less v left my home by 7 15 am on the way I picked sow ( my finance). After our engagment I was waiting to take her for a ride on bike, we went around in car, but the feel is entirely different with our partner. Soon we were cruising on airport road, enjoying the cool breeze of Bangalore awesome weather. We stopped at Nandi upchar for much awaited breakfast. After munching some yummy dosas n idlis we headed towards boganandishwara temple. Boganandishwara temple is one of the oldest temple around Bangalore, situated just below the nandi hills in nandi grama. This Shiva temple has 3 garba gudi, n a big nandi in front of Shiva linga. The temple also has a big pushkarni surrounded by many pillars n 4 gopuras. It has

The wait for monsoon was over, it was heavily raining in western ghats and it was irresistible for us to get drenched in the beauty of nature. After cancelling Nishani Motte as bhagamandala was flooded and no access to talacauvery, we decided to trek Brahmagiri peak. Brahmagiri, is a mountain range in the Western Ghats of south India. It is situated on the border between Kodagu district in Karnataka state in the north and Wayanad district of Kerala state on the south. height 1608 mtrs. The shola forest is house for many elephants, sambars, wild boars etc. Quick arrangements of transport, stay and  permissions were made by swamy and myself, the team is all set to leave the city on Friday night. it was 10 people from Bangalore and Arun joined us from Mysore. left the city around 11pm and picked Arun in Mysore by 3am in morning. our early morning stop was in Shrimangala where we need to take permission from forest range officer. with help of swamy and his brother we got permissions

As an adventure enthusiast, the happiness is striking of the task in the bucket list by accomplishing it. this time its an unplanned adventure, Paragliding. 25th March 2016. I was on a trip with my friends in idduki, kerala. it was a long weekend as it was good friday. we were at kerala to explore vagamon, iddukki and kumliy. on day one on the way to Vagamon pine forests, i spotted a board beside the board which stated "paragliding station". We were excited to watch the flying glides in the sky and decided to have a closer look on the activity. as we approach the point, my mind was rushing with excitement and at same time was juggling with the decision if i need to give a try on this or not. after watching the big paraglides, i decided to give a try on this. something was repeating in my mind if not now, then when ?. Even my friends encouraged to take up the adventure.                                                                                      

Monsoon came to an end and whole of western ghats were calling us with its all glory of green mountains. Nov 1st and 2nd 2014. The plan was hitched to trek Charmadi range. Near ujire and dharmasthala. We left Bangalore bit late on Friday night, blames on Bangalore weekend traffic. It was 11 30pm when everyone were fit into tempo traveller and say Hi to highway. Arrangements for stay n guide were made in prior. Our sincere thanks to Keshav Mulya from Charmadi. Day 1:  6 30 am we reached Charmadi gate, and took deviation to panchalinga temple where we have a small hall to rest and halt. Lets call this as base camp. Everyone got fresh and all set for the day, while few of them prepared breakfast n lunch. We quickly had breakfast and packed our lunch. Our guide Nemanna was with us on time, he is the well known person of that region and should appreciate his activeness even in his 50+ age. Starting point of trek is near annappa swamy temple, this temple is on the road side of the

7 guys from Bangalore gear up for an adventure trip, its time dive into the sea and experience the feel of fishes and other aquatic animals along with them. the dates were fixed a month back and everyone were very excited for the much awaited weekend. Day 1: April 26 2014 Sun rays, chilled air and little fog woke us in the tempo traveler and found ourselves moving in the curvy roads of gerosoppa forest region near shimogga. It was 7 in the morning when we reached Honnavara,  our first stop was at Ram thirtha, a place where a small stream flowing all over the year from unknown source. We took bath in that pond and had a visit to temple attached to pond. After breakfast our next stop was at idugunji ganapathi temple, soon at 2 we were at our final destination murudeshwara temple. Visited temple and finished lunch at temple. Checked into kamath hotel which was pre-booked, rooms were pretty good with AC which was must required at 35+ temperature. We decided to take a small nap befor