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Distance: Shivanasamudra is located 100 km from Bangalore and 60 km from Mysore.

Journey time: 1 and half hours to 2 hours from Bangalore. 1 hour from Mysore.

How to reach there: It is advisable to go for KSTDC package/private tour packages or hire your own vehicle.

Route: 1. One can take the Bangalore – Mysore highway, after Muddur take a diversion and drive upto Malavalli and then ask a local for direction.

2. There other route is Kanakpura road. Drive upto Malavalli and ask any local for direction.

Best Time to Visit: The best time to visit Shivanasamudra is from June to September.

Where to eat: I did not found any good place to eat. So do not expect much.

Gaganachukki – Source: Wikipedia

Shivanasamudra is the place where the first Hydro-electric Power station in Asia was set up in 1902. Electricity produced from here went on to power the first city in Asia – Kolar Gold Field or KGF. It is located in Malavalli taluk of Mandya District in the Indian state of Karnataka. This place is famous for the hydro – electric project and two waterfalls formed by river Cauvery. Gaganachukki is the largest falls where the tourists mostly go. View gallery has been constructed by the state government there. The Gaganachukki falls from a height of 98 metres and has two segments – the eastern and the western segment. One can go to the buttom of the falls by trekking. But in monsson season, one should be very careful or should avoid going there altogether. The Barachukki falls is about a KM from there but it is quite small and less popular. But to many the Barachukki falls is more beautiful. Shivanasamudra is also known as Bluff.

Gaganachukki falls

Barachukki Falls

Barachukki falls

There is no place to stay here and it is better to leave the place before evening. This is a nice place for weekend gateway from Bangalore.

Video courtesy – Balaji

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Date: 19th July, 2008

Where the road ends our journey begins…

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Nandi hill is around 60km from Bangalore. About the place – Need a break from the heat and dust of the plains? Welcome to the Nandi Hills one of the hill resorts of Karnataka. Standing 1,478 meters above sea level Nandi hill is Bangalore’s own hill station. It was Tipu Sultan’s summer retreat and Tipu’s fort walls still stand as testimony to history, once you reach the summit of the Nandi Hills you will spot the ruins of the Fort that once belonged to Tipu Sultan The Nandi Hills or the hills of the Nandi have been named after the bull of Lord Shiva Nandi Hills is a small hill range near Bangalore. Its claim to fame is the beautiful climate all year round. The pleasant hill resort of Nandi Hills is also known as Nandigiri or Nandidurga amongst the locals, it is wonderfully cool in the Nandi Hills. So, many tourists head to this beautiful hill station (unlucky ones don’t know the trek route and so travel by road).

The Nandi Hills have attracted people since long. Nandi hills were the summer haven of Tipu Sultan as well as the British. The palace of Tipu Sultan and the Bungalows of the British stand in testimony of the same. Now Nandi Hills are popular with the tourists and act as ideal weekend getaway for the people from Bangalore. The rivers like Pennar, Palar and Arkavati Rivers start off from the Nandi Hills.

We will also visit the Tipu’s Drop the tourist attraction is A 600 m high cliff face where according to legend, condemned prisoners were pushed/thrown to their death. Tipu’s Drop offers some wondrous vistas. On misty days when the wind wails in the trees, you can almost hear the blood-curdling screams of the prisoners as they met their gruesome end. But look down on a clear day and the view is inspiring.

Nandi Hills shot into prominence during the visits of Queen Elizabeth II in the 1960s and the heads of SAARC countries in the 1980s.

Events included in this package is Trek in various terrain as you can see in the photographs, we call it as an multi terrain trek as it has rocks, plains grasslands, bushes, trees and a bit of roads too.

About the event – Trek to Nandi hills will be totally cross country and not through the roads, all the participants are requested to report a common point in Bangalore at about 6:30 am. From there we will be traveling by road for about next 50 kilometers, we will be parking our vehicle in the foothills in a farmhouse and start the trek (at least by 8:30 am). It’s an approx 3 hrs trek to the summit, obviously we will trek back to the foothills, but not by the same route.

Somewhere just before mid way we will have our breakfast. Lunch (Plate Vegetarian meals, any extra should be purchased by participants at their cost) will be taken on the top of the hill at a restaurant; evening tea will be taken in a Dhaba on our return journey.

Departure (expected) from Bangalore at 6:30 am and expected arrival at 7:30 pm.

Food Vegetarian Breakfast, Vegetarian Lunch (Non vegetarian Lunch optional at participant’s expense – minus our lunch budget), and Evening Tea.

NOTE: – No Liquor advised as it leads to dehydration.

Fee per participant including food and transportation would be Rs. 550/-

TravelingBeats.com is in no way related with this offer. We are just providing the info.

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