It was almost five in the evening by the time we reached our home-stay near Kalasa. After driving for more than 250 KMs on the twisty roads of western ghats along with visits to Kukke Subrahmanya and Dharmasthala, all I
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Friday evening and I had no plans for the weekend. Just when I was running out of options on what to do, I got a message “I’m planning to hike Kabbaludurga again. Do you want to join?”. This was about
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“Are you sure this is the hill we are supposed to climb?”, those were the first words uttered by a friend when we approached Kabbalu Durga. “Let’s climb a smaller one instead. This one is huge.”, quipped another one. Though
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“Hurry, you’ve got only 15 minutes. We’ll be closing by 5:30PM sharp.”, the security folks at the entrance of Chennakeshava temple, Somanathapura were in a real hurry. Though it was very close to closing time quite a few visitors were
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It is always a gamble to paying visits to waterfalls in Summer. There is a high chance of returning disappointed with no much water. With that low expectation set, along with a bunch of friends I set out to visit
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What was supposed to be a weekend trip to the canyons of Gandikota, the plan turned on its head and it turned out to be an impromptu trip towards Sakaleshpura. Day one was to visit Mookanamane falls (my first visit
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