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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Melukote, the hill town famous for delicious ‘pulioyagre’ was in front of us, far ahead in the horizon. We were approaching the hill town from a different route – not the usual route from Mandya, but from south. After spending
Read moreFor most of the people visiting Shravanabelagola, their purpose of visit starts and stops at the huge monolithic statue of Lord Gommateshvara on top of Vindhyagiri (more commonly known as ‘Dodda betta‘). What most of them don’t know is that
Read moreThe pleasure ride on the longest pier in the world. Southend-on-Sea, my visit in 2009 to this coastal town 40 miles east of London was a completely unplanned or unexpected. I just jumped in when a friend asked me to
Read moreLast time I was at Mandharagiri (popularly known as Basadi betta or Basti Betta), it was an overcast day. It looked as if the sky was ready to open up any time. But this time it was a clear blue
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