Date : July 30th, 2011
On 28th July, Thursday I suddenly felt I need a change this weekend and I casually pinged my friend Sugan to ask what can be done and she said she is fine with any plan. Then I pulled in Vidya, she was also fine to travel that weekend. Then Sugan just put a mail to all my friends about the plan of going on a one day trip.
The place was finalized by me and Sugan as we found Devarayanadurga interesting compared to all other shortlist of ours. By the end of the day as per logistics recieved it was like only three of us are going to travel, still we kept our plan alive.
29th July, Friday slowly the count started increasing and by the end of the day it was 7 of us set to travel. We decided to take food and hence sugan and me prepared chappathis, tomato chutney, Soya peas fry and curd rice and Aishu and Vidya came with Tamarind rice. The night went cooking and we had about an hour sleep.
30th July, Saturday:
Our plan was to start at 5 30 from Marathahalli, but by technical mistake I switched of my alarm and went back to sleep and got up at 5 o clock which was pretty late. @ 5 30 all others were ready except me and sugan. But its ok, sometimes it happens. Our trip finally started at 7 30 from Majestic.
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| Photos taken on the way |
Places decided to cover:
1. Sri Lakshmi Temple
2. Boga Narashimha temple, DD hills
3. Yoga Narashimha temple, DD hills
4. A Lake nearby, foothill of DD hills
5. Namadha Chilume
From Majestic we took a bus to Pavagada, got down at Goravanahalli cross and from there you get share autos which take you to the temple.
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| @Sri Lakshmi Temple, Goravanahalli |
After our visit to the temple we reached back Goravanahalli cross in auto and took another auto to DD hills, its about 12kms from Goravanahalli cross.
We reached Bhoga Narashimha temple at the foothill of DD hills at 12 noon for the Uchikal pooja, after the pooja there is annadhanam also.
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| Bhoga Narasimha temple, DD hills |
We then took another auto to reach Yoga Narasimha temple which is on the top of the hill. By the time we were all hungry and planned to finish our lunch before visiting Yoga Narasimha. There are steps being laid to reach the hill by walk and the work is still in progress so we had a good place to have our lunch and our photo session.
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| Yummy food carried.. |
After the heavy lunch, photo session and refreshment we went up the hill, its about 100 steps u need to climb to meet Yoga Narasimha. Be careful as u can find all your friends there running around you with love ;)
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| Pond back of Bhoga Narasimha temple |
All posing in different directions and cameras continuously capturing all our fun, meanwhile the auto driver got ready to leave the place. We ran to the auto then.
The bug in our trip: Our plan next was to go to Namadha chilume next but assuming that the place takes a different road from the bus stand (Uradagere - the place where buses from Bangalore
Namadha chilume is supposed to be amidst the forest reserve (better to visit the place before dusk) and it was 6 o clock when we reached the spot.
The watchman said its closed and refused to allow us inside, but the auto driver spoke for us and finally the watchman agreed with the condition that we should return back in 5min (OMG 5min again ;) ).. We 7 brave Girls entered in while others were leaving out with a weird look on us. :P You can see a place where water keeps snoozing out, a very tiny steam – it is believed Lord Rama shot his arrow to get water to quench the thirst of his beloved wife Sita. The place gives you a feel that you are amidst a deserted forest reserve. At the entrance of the reserve you can find a deer park
We were forced to leave the place before it turned dark. The best part of the to and fro journey to Namadha chilume was that we hired one auto for seven of us, and when the auto had to go uphill three of us had to get down the auto and run back of it for a distance and after some time the next three.. Those were real fun filled moments, memories to be cherished.
It was 6:45 when we reached the bus junction back. With our hearts filled with satisfaction and joy, eyes filled with tiredness we were grabbing our bags from the auto and getting ready for our way back home, our fun didn’t last long, it completely crashed when my friend discovered her handbag was missing and to add spice to that moment my other friend’s mobile was also there in her bag. Within seconds and before we realized what has happened, three of them sat in the auto and went back to Namadha chilume to look for the bag… The other four left out here in fear about the three who went back into the forest area, meanwhile we tried calling the mobile that was left in the bag, it was not reachable, could not conclude on anything. After sometime the mobile in the handbag got connected and a person picked up saying the bag is in Koratagere Police station, so we came to know the bag is safe. Now all that we wanted is the three girls to come back safe, and we tried calling them to ask them to come back but their mobiles became unreachable, the situation was becoming worse every moment. It was 7 45 when they came back, we didn’t think about anything, just that second there came a bus to Bangalore
It was after we got into the bus we realized that those three girls should not have gone back, but the panic filled moment froze our minds from taking any wise decision… Anyways they came back safe with a good lesson for all of us… “Practicee makes a mann perfact” (In santhanam style ;) ) We reached back Bangalore
It was a great trip with loads of memories.
