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ರೈಡ್ ಟು Hogenakkal Falls

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Nothing concrete planned yet decided to Ride to Hogenakkal Falls and Krishnagiri dam on Saturday, along with Vijay and Avinash!! Finall Bunty, Ramesh, and Shivanand just came back from darwad, also joined us!!!! Three bikes, six people, we where off to explore Hogenekal falls though pretty late by 11 then planned. . After a quick Brake fast on hours road near Electronic city, reached Hosur at almost 12pm and it was a sudden decision taken to go only to Hogenakkal Falls and leave the Krishnagiri dam for another day as we where late on schedule, Initially had no idea of which direction to take to Hogenakkal falls as there are many route to reach there and finally decided to take the Hosur -Denkanikottai- Anchetty -Pennagram- Hoggenakkal route(135 kms); the main reason behind that; this route is supposed to be very scenic and the shortest, but Had to compromise on road condition!!! Also I thought it would be better off for some off-road bike ride (After Muthathi forest- Sangama ride long

A Lazy Ride To Manchanballe Dam….

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On a Lazy Saturday Instead of watching the same old movies on TV, I got ready and set off ... where to? lets see ... Doddaballapur road, Bellary road, Mysore Road, Tumkur road ... all are pretty much seen…. Nothing seemed interesting for a short ride, later I dug out from the archives of my grey area and pulled out Manchinbele dam(One my favorite get away places around Bangalore). At 1.00 pm after few Phone calls I was out on my ever-faithful bike with camera behind me, along with Vijay and three of his friends(Bunty, Kesahv, and Darshan) who joined me for this short ride, as they had never been to this place and a superb weather played host for wonderful afternoon everything was falling in place for a half day ride across the beautiful country side, and out of noisy & dusty Bangalore to spend a perfect evening with Arkavathy River. Folks, before I start on what you can see there, let me tell u some thing … Bangalore to Manchanbele Dam is a beautiful country side drive (Just an hou