Last month I went to Nandi Hills with 4 of my friends. Ofcourse in Bike. Nandi Hills which is 60 kms away from Bangalore is famous as Tippu Sulthan’s summer retreat. Its around 1200m above the sea level.
I woke up on a saturday morning without no idea of going anywhere, whatever. As I felt boring, I sarted to my office which is few minutes walk from my home. As soon as I started my regular mail checking at office, one of my friends from a different house at Bangalore called me up and said that we can go to Nandi hills today. Suddently a plan materialized in front of us. We had three bikes and 5 guys as usual ‘Vetti’ ( Useless / Guys with no work ).
So we started. We went to Hebbal and from there followed the NH7 road to reach Devanahalli. We filled up our bikes’ tank. I felt happy to have my first bike ride to a hill station.
We started at around 11:30 AM. We were on our way in bike. I forgot the names of small cities we went past in our bike. On our way we saw some paragliders, but we had no idea where they were starting. May be this one – http://www.paragliding365.com/index-p-flightarea_details_4822.html
On our way we ate in one of the restaurants (forgot its name). Had cheap good lunch. We saw some ‘ChowChow’ vegetable creeper gardens on the way. We took some nice photos. We didnt take camera as it was a suddent trip. We used our cell phone cams. But one should take a nice camera especially when one is targeting for the famous Sunrise visits at Nandi Hills.
We went through Hair-pin bends and took lots of snaps on our way. Saw monkeys on the way as well. We reached there at around 3 PM (delayed because of dinner) and got tokens for bike parking and entrance ticket.
We went to Tipu sultans guest house. They told there is a temple, but we didnt find any. We roamed around. Saw some colourful flowers. Saw a palace with a Nehru statue on the back side. Nothing much, just roamed around.
As the dusk has started, we started early as one of the guys was an amateur in riding bikes. There was nothing much to tell during our return trip except that we stopped to have a glimpse of the Sunset. Though we dont have much to tell out of this trip we had a fairly good trip with no plan. We had fun while returning as it was dark and my bike head light stopped glowing.
And ya, one can have a great trip to Nandi Hills from Bangalore if they plan better than us. One could try for Paragliding as well, if possible.
