Beast and its rides Trip 10
BR Hills, MM Hills, Hogenakkal Falls and coracle ride (500km)
We had 1 hour late
start waiting for others and two guys dropping out at last minute, witnessing
an accident from our start place where a MUV collided head on with a sedan as
MUV was coming in wrong side of the road (Urvashi signal), luckily there was no
death but serious injuries to the drivers.
BR Hills
Pretty cold at 5am even though we were late we reached on
time as per the plan to BR Hills, we took short break in Malavalli as usually
we do in that route, met a fellow rider who was heading home to Kerala from
Bangalore, the sun rise near Talkad was amazing, wish I could come here every
day to see the sunrise between the mountains, we missed a turn after Talkad
20km extra de-touring as it's there in all the trips without it is no fun of
the trips, reached BRHills by 8:30am. Its open from 6am to 6pm, hardly 2km
inside from the check post we could spot dozens of Peacocks on the road side and
on the road too little further for first time we were lucky to spot 2 Bison's
crossing the road after quenching their thirst from nearby pond, on the top
from the view point the name stands true Biligiri Rangantha Betta means white
hill but a small change in the name we could make after reaching there is
Billigri Mangana Betta as there were plenty of monkeys in the view point, even
at 10am it was covered by thick white fog.
MM Hills
We reached there by 12:30pm, the roads were simply superb
got a special entry to park the bike near the temple as I requested the keeper
to allow me b'cos of my broken leg (ligament tear) was using ankle brace, we
could see small chariots carrying the idols were out and people were rolling on
the road around the temple, the queue to go inside for darshan was huge so we
stayed out, we did one round around temple on our bulls, had our lunch in
nearby hotel and we started to descend
towards mettur, hardly 5 km done with hairpin bends and the bike had to do dirt
biking, the roads were bad for 15km we were covered by mud completely by the
time we could hit metal road.
Hogenakkal Falls
We reached Hogenakkal falls from Karnataka side, the roads
were narrow and empty.
Return (coracle ride)
Got to know the bike can be put in coracle and shifted
across the river as we wanted to enter Tamil Nadu side from there we could save
30km. Shifted two bulls together in one coracle and we took hardly 3mins to
cross, but to shift the bulls in and out of the coracle it took more than half
n hour. The roads were good so kept our average in 60s as there were many
winding roads, saw a snake of two and half feet in length cross the road it was close to the bull which
was ahead of my bull. As we entered the city near atibile the light fuse of
classic 500 got burnt, spare fuse too got burnt, the classic chrome was in
stealth mode, we were lucky as it was
inside the city and rode slowly and reached home exact 500km done.
Riders,
1 Sharath Chandra
2 Santhosh Venkataram
3 Vishwas vishu
4 Venkataram
Bikes,
1 Classic Chrome
2 Thunderbird 500
Photographer,
1 Vishwas Vishu
