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This is the ideal time to witness the great beauty of malenadu. Hills will be covered with mist…. You will find the pearl like water droplets on the top of coffee plants… one should experience such climate… I visit to dharmastala every year in the time of August/September. This year we [ my friends and I ] planned to cover some surrounding places along with dharmastala We planned to visit Kukke, Dharmastala, Chikkamagaluru, beluru, halebidu,Mullayanagiri,Bababudanagiri and manikyadhara. Following is the brief introduction of two days. 14 th August: 9.45pm: Leave Bangalore by Kukke Bus 15 th August: 6AM: Reached Kukke 10.30AM: After Subramany swami darshana Left to Dharmastala. 12.30PM: Reached Dharmastala 4PM: finished darshana and prasada by. 5PM: Left to Chikkmagaluru and reached there by 9PM. 16 th August: 7am : Left chikkmagaluru 8am: reached Beluru 9.30AM:reached Halebidu 11AM : Back to chikkamagal

It is also known as Skandhagiri. This place is situated around 75 KM from Bangalore. This place is well known for the Sun rise point and night trek. It is around 10km from Chikkaballapura. On the day of Ram Navami 3rd march 2009 we (group of seven members) left Bangalore around 11.30Pm (Hebbala fly over) . We watched Ramayana Play on the way to Kalavarahalli (The place was Avati). We reached Kalavarahalli at 1.30am. Ramayana Play.. We need to pass through the Chikkaballapura town to Kalavarahalli (As shown in image below) We were equipped with torches and carried some snacks and water. The starting point of trek is Papagni math. There are two routes to reach the top. First one is the easy path which could take around 2 to 3 hours to reach peak and the second one is the most difficult path you should go with guide in this route. Map to reach kalavarahalli betta Click on Images to enlarge... We are accompanied by another five member group. We started our trek without guide through th

“Taj Mahal was not built by shah Jahan. He captured it from the Rajput king King Jai Singh. It was lord Shiva’s temple called Tejo Mahalaya ” This message from my friend makes me to think a while. I heard this fact by my friend Deepak when we were studying BE. Next day when I got some free time I googled to get more information about the Taj Mahal. I got many sites, in that I found following site more informative. http://www.stephen-knapp.com/true_story_of_the_taj_mahal.htm The research about the fact is done by Purushottam Nagesh Oak generally known as P N Oak. The information given in his research makes me to search for his book " Tajmahal : The True Story " Go through the above link at least once.

At the time of our Madikeri trip, we planed our next trip to Dhandeli on 24th and 25th Jan 2009. But due to some reason we shifted our plan from Dhandeli to Wynadu. This place is in Kerala. We all heard that Kerala is the Gods own country. We felt it when we entered the Kerala through Bandipura forest. We reached the state border check post around 6am. It was full misty environment. We paid 1800/- interstate road tax and persuade our journey towards Sulthan Bathery. Sun covered with mist..... We had already booked a home stay at Menamutti. We finished our breakfast at Sulthan Bathery. Home stay owner Mathew said he will pick us from Sulthan Bathery. We reached home stay around 9.30am. After drinking a full glass of Tea (which was not good. It was not strong; as we used to drink small quantity but very strong tea here obviously none of us liked that tea) we left for Minamutti falls under the guidance of Mathew (home stay owner). The time was around 11am We paid 30/- per head near Mina