My first blog (trip to Savandurga)

Well well well... Finally I could prepare my mind and fingers to get down and write my first blog. I had been planning it from quite some time to pull up my socks to add some cents from my side also to this astonishing blogging world.


Saturday (the 12th-May-2007), we went for Savandurga trek. Like almost all my past experiences, this trek/picnic (whatever one may please to call it) also was an outcome of the instant decision. It's my experience so far, the more you plan things, more failure prone they become. It happened here also. We 5 friends had gone to play morning cricket on Saturday. We finished it at around 9:00 A.M. and just had this thought of going out of Bangalore while enjoying our morning tea. So, the plan was decided there itself and we prepared 3 more friends to go along with us.

Though this trek wasn't as fantastic as the Rajmachi trek, but still, this trek is special in its own way [2-ways :) ] to me as one, this was my first trek in Bangalore and second I could find some material to write my first blog. :)

We were 8 bikers on 4 bikes. We stared from Bangalore at around 10:00 A.M. We got some sandwiches packed for us and headed towards Mysore road. Though, it was a bright sunny day, so we were dicey that it would become hotter later in the day. But once you get out of the city, the clouds came to rescue us from sun-heat through out the day. :)

We had searched a so-called road-map of Savandurga on internet and had a slight idea of where to move and all. Its almost 85 KM. from the city and around 70 Km. when you actually get onto the Mysore road. Some one said, we need to reach to "Magadi" (before Ramanagaram) on Mysore road and from there we need to take a left turn to reach to Savandurga. But when we actually started, we could not find Magadi even when we had reached Ramanagaram. Then we asked some localites in broken Kannada and Hinglish, and got to know that we need to take a left turn from Ramanagaram for Savandurga.

People living in Bangalore would agree to me that Mysore road (SH-17) is one of the best roads to ride. But we refrained ourselves not to go beyond 90 KMPH mark. :) Similarly, the road from Ramanagaram to Savandurga is also fantastic and its also a newly created state highway (I don't know what's it's number, as all the milestones were in Kannada, so my bad, I couldn't read them). So, overall the drive was all enjoyable and fantastic. After driving for 30 Kms, we took a right turn to go to Savandurga. This 4 Km. patch is not good, yet manageable.

We reached at the foot of Savandurga rock at around 2:00 P.M. or something. Then we ate our sandwiches and all. It was great to see that water facility was available there. After resting for a while, we started to climb the rock. After the tiring morning cricket, and this long drive only 3 of us were enthusiastic enough to go to the half of the rock, and other 5 chose to stay back and rest in the nature's arms on a rock.

Though, we all 3 were thinking to go to the top of the rock, but later we dropped the idea at the half way, as it was already 4:15 P.M. and we were worried to reach the main highway before the sun sets, so we returned.

We started back from there at around 5:00 P.M. On our way back, we enjoyed fresh mangoes (straight from the tree) also. There are lots of mango trees on the highway. Around 7:30 P.M. we were at our home.

It was really a tiring yet a very energetic day for all of us, and we enjoyed each and every moment of it.