The way route we have choosen was

Bangalore --> Nelamangala --> Kunigal --> Hirisave --> Shravanabelagola --> Halibedu --> Beluru

Start from Bangalore take Tumkur Road NH 4 towards Yeshwantpur 30 km on NH-4 reach Nelamangala and Travel 44 KM to hit NH-48 and take left at Neelamangala
Reach Kunigal and from there 52 km continue on NH 48 to reach Hirisave continue 16 km and Turn Left from Hirisave that connects to Shravanabelagola, from here every thing is easy to reach Halibedu and Beluru.
We traveled around 580 KM in this whole trip.


Shravanabelagola - Wiki
Finally we reached top of the hill where we can see huge (57 Feet)Bahu bali / Gomateswara idol. As it was one of the best pilgrimage center for Jains; we found so many Jain's and foreign tourists as well. I was surprised to see the tourists actively climbing the hill with out any fagged feeling. Got to know that this huge idol was build by king "Chamundaraya".

Gomateswara monolithic idol

The word Shravanbelagola means "The white pond of the Shravana" -as the name suggest there is nice pond we can see from the top of the hill, nice scenic view from the top of the hill. Just beside this hill we can see another hill called Chandragiri(Chikka betta) which has many memorials to other Jain monks. It is believed that emperor "Chadragupta Mourya" meditated on this hill. By the way there were Palanquin facilities from the down of the hill to reach up of the hill, around 400 INR were charged for this.

On the way to the top of Bahubali hill ...

There were so many inscriptions on the way to Bahubali, most of them were written on old kannada and Marathi. I was telling my friends there should be a wonderful language compiler for all the indian old and new languages which will convert from any to any; dreaming that at least our next generations will decode the photos we have taken for all those inscriptions to understand the history. There were many theerthankaras idols placed behind the Baahubali idol.

For every 12 years there will be "MahaMastakabhishekam" performed for this huge idol; in which they will perform abhishekam with ghee, milk, gold coins and saffron. It is a spectacular ceremony. the next will be in the year 2018. We skipped to visit the chandragiri to visit other places in plan.

Coconut water is my all time relaxing technique which again I applied after getting down from the hill and quickly started Off to Halebidu which is 78 km from Shravanabelagola.On the way we stopped for Lunch in Hasan town. Food was average though we have choosen the best hotel in the town and in the heavey rain itself we started to Halebedu to save the time.

Halebedu wiki 

By the time we reached Halebedu, climate was good and entered the uncompleted, Hoyasaleswara temple constructed by Hoyasala dinesty kings ...Halebedu which was previously called Dorasamudra or Dwarasamudra) was the regal capital of the Hoysala Empire in the 12th century. Surprising thing to know was the word "Halebedu" means ruined city. Guide was many times telling that it was invaded by Bahamani sultan and other Muslim kings who ruled the near by places. But how come they would have thought of invading this much great sculptures.

One of the best sculptures @ Halebedu

In this place there were two uncompleted Hoysaleshawara and Kedareshwara temples  and before them two big bulls (Nandi's) and also one big lake called as Dwara samudhra which means entrance from ocean by which the name of the village too. The two big monolithic Nandi's and many sculptures in the temple were made of soap stone or Chloritic Schis. One will definitely gets amazed while seeing the beauty and understand the view of artists who carved these sculptures.There are beautiful and numerous sculptures surrounding the temple as well as inside the temple. I can't express the fineness of these sculptures one has to see and feel it. There is one archeological museum inside the temple premises which has few invaded stones and uncompleted sculptures.

@ Halebedu temple ..Whole group

Belur wiki 
We reached Beluru around at 4:30 PM; it is just 16 KMs from Halibedu. The temple here was Chenna Kesawa swamy (Good looking Vishnu in meaning). Unfortunately the temple was closed for that day. Unlike Halibedu, Beluru temples were 100 % completed. Even Sri krishna devaraya has done some renovations to this temple during his kingdom.

King Vishnuvardana and his qween Shantala devi who has paid attention and developed these two places.As like all the temples there was pushkarani in this temple complex as well. The surprising stuff is that, there was one prototype temple in the same complex which we can see for the original temple. The star base for both prototye and main temple was really powerful. The sculpture and temple architecture is simply superb. I don't think modern artists can build this kind of fine artistic monuments just with hands.The temple is one of the finest examples of Hoysala architecture, there is no doubt for this.

at Belur Temple ..

Belur and Halebedu architecture reminded me my trip to Somanathapur , because the architecture is same in these three temples, the fine ness and techniques in carving these sculputures are same they look almost same but different in views of different artists. The imagination and views of the artists who carved all these sculptures are from our Puranas, Itihaasas, technology, culture, Habits, Intersts to Kamasutras.

One line to say about these two places is "Belur - Halibedu are pride to India in terms of its culture and its standards". I never imagined 2D and 3D views in the sculptures till I see this place. Hats-off to the creativity of architects and artists involved in this great fine monuments and sculptures in this temple.

Finally we started our retrun journey to Bangalore around at  7 PM and everybody took rest and reached our places almost by mid-night.
It was a good trip after long time for all of us....looking for some thing different this time .. Let's wait and see...

At Belur temple ..

Though it is sun you will definitely feel the fun in the sparkling sand and splashing beach tides. This is the real holiday for me as this is first time I felt in my life that a beach can also be a bustling place when you are with your friends in that place. It will be the perfect celebration with gusto in your holiday if you are in Goa.

This is a new place may be a heaven for us for few hours we are the kings and emperors served by many angels. This heaven has streets filled with gorgeous women.... OMG you made this nature the striking one by just creating beautiful women.

Go Go Go Go GOAAAAAAAAAAAAA.....Relish your time ..Cherish Your memories

Venue : Palace grounds- Bangalore
Date  : 14 Nov 2009
Entrance Fee: 50 INR per head





There are TATA,Hyundai and Mahindra stalls where they showcased their latest cars. Along with this there are few stalls which exhibited the car accessories like vacuum cleaners and GPS systems.

Hot Bikes ...and Cool cars ... This is Auto show 2009 Bangalore event

Telugu review on this : http://manasumaatalu.blogspot.com/2009/06/bangalore-to-hogenakkal-route-bike-ride.html

Hmm it is 29^th May 2009 Im some how clear in my heart after getting out of few disturbances in my life and then thought of rejuvenate my self...As I am frantically thinking about a bike ride for a longer distance since long time ; “Hogenkkal” is the place got in my mind. No second thought just googled it for more details; many blogs helped me in finding the shortest route and history about the place. I should confess myself that this place don’t need really this much browsing.Finalized the place, with great confidence on my roomies. Yes, they accepted and then thought of informing people who shows interest in bike riding. At last we became 8 people to start next day morning from Bangalore. Got all the bikes fueled and ready for ride. Though many told me about the good things about the place we truly have no speculations. After reading blogs bit confused about the routes to Hoggenakkal falls and its distance; still we strongly decided to ride that's all.

4 bikes on 4^th gear …Moving ahead.

All of us (Gopal,Syed,Pradeep, Ramana, Nagaraju, Meeravali, Surendra and me)Gathered around at 7 AM at Silk board. Discussed about the route we will be riding. We finalized the best and shortest route to reach Hoggnakkal.

Bangalore - Attebelle - Mathigiri - Denkanikottai - Anchetty - Hoggenakkal (Just around 120 KM)

After reaching falls I saw my bike’s Milo-meter; it was exactly 122 KM from Koramangala.

We geared our bikes and set out to explore the real speed of our bikes.Whole route is single lane forest “ghat” road with hair pin bends and so many turns in deep ups and downs. It was really thrilling and even weather added its effects by breeze and drizzles. We really enjoyed the lush full lands both sides our bike as if we are riding our bikes in a videogame which has landscapes shown in WinXP default theme. There is no chance of breathing when we are on 90 speed and suddenly noticed the deep valley beside us.

One of our sojourns is at a bridge where we had a pleasant experience of small streams of water in between mounds and green trees. Looks like this place is untouched and hardly there are no people except one are two vehicles crossing this bridge in an hour; hence we were able to savor the silence. We walked around this place had some photo session with the help of our creative photographer Pradeep(we call him PK).

Next stop is at a place on the pathway covered with dense trees bloom many wild flowers on the road. Don’t know why all of us really like this place.We had deep breaths here and of course photo session is quite expected where ever we stopped all the day.Through out the entire route we passed few villages but saw very less people and latter we smacked our ride as the route (around 10 KM) is ot good, it is bumpy one.

When we reach the destination most of us are ravenous; so decided to have lunch before planning anything. We found a hotel named “Tamilanadu Hotel”, quickly ordered chicken along with meals. Of course; I’m a veggie that day (Saturday) so far away from famous fried fish slices and other non-veg stuff. After lunch, successful talks between our mate and the coracle people lead us towards the falls.

Hognekkal has created many disputes between Tamilanaadu state and Karnataka state, just for the reason of beautiful water resources by Kaveri River here. In a year many times this place will be in news due to this. Actually the present situation here is like there two entrances to this place one from Karnataka entrance and another is from Tamilanadu. Unknowingly our route took us to enter from Tamilanadu. Actually we can see different boatmen and different stalls in both entrances. Even boatmen classify the whole place into two parts (in which water falls) showing one big rock as Tamilandu’s and another as Karnataka’s. Our great Indian politicians are creating these sensitive issues due to regional weakness in people of this place.

Actually the coracle (Small round shaped boat made of bamboo sticks and tar sheets like any skiff) ride is the major attraction here and body herbal oil massage is the nest best here. The whole place is fully crowded and there are many kids due to the summer holidays for schools. There are enough number of small stalls and shops for eatables.

People can recollect the “Nagamani Nagamni ..”Song from “Roja” movie which was shot here while traveling in coracles. During this ride we can touch the drizzles when we go near to canyon flow from high hills. That was really a splendid experience for me. While we were enjoying this we could see dare kids jumping from top of big rocks into water just for 10 rupees. We can’t even imagine it from a normal people and there we can see the real rock climbing by those kids after jumping from the high. With a soothing music of water fall we reached island.

We frolicked in the island for around 3 hours and some of us had oil massage here then returned to see the main falls view by crossing a rope bridge. Really an amazing view it is. The falls force is so high, though we are standing very far from the falls we are able to sense the strength of it just by the hitting water droplets in the drizzles.

Then around at 6 PM we started our return ride in the same route. Don’t know why, but my sixth sense expected a rain and the same happened in less than an hour. As planned; before light failure itself we were able to cross the bumpy road. And at one stop (It’s a newly opened petrol bunk on that forest ghat road) we took shelter due to heavy rain after half an hour we started and crossed the elephant’s zone. Then again it rained cats and dogs and we took another stop for almost 2 or 3 hours we were stopped. But at that point it was just 40 to 50 KM to cover so we were least bothered and I personally enjoyed this thrilling ride in the rain. Then we reached RK Dhaba near Electronic city around at 11:30 PM and finishing dinner there reached my room exactly at 1 AM.

As a whole it was an amazing trip and a wonderful day filled with incredible beauty while on bike ride and I loved each minute of it.

Note: People going in the short route I mentioned above should be careful while going as there won’t be any service shops if your bike got any repair.

P.S: One should not miss this falls when it is heavily flooding and one should be with enough care while playing near this falls.
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