SMILES OF 1000MILES

“If you want to improve yourself, you should challenge your own limits”.

From sweltering to chilly weather, we smiled through 1000 miles of our bike trip in karnataka . it was a great experience as it was our first travel 1000miles. We have to exact it was 1106 mileswe travelled through cities, tiny villages, mountains and forests. we had some great and worse experience.

We started our trip at 3’0 clock early morning from salem to hampi. on the way we want to mandaragiri betta, which was in tumkur. There was a jain temple in the hill, you have to climb 450steps to reach the top of the hill. It was kinda of unsafe because there was no fence there and the hill was quite steep. But the view from the top is exquisite. But when we were there  the temple was under construction.It was great place spend time on a weekend.

Then we strated our journey to hampi , we are on NH48 till chitradurga , till that the road was great and it was fun. Then from chitradurga to hampi the road was under construction, so it was hard to drive and it took some time then we thought.

We reached hampi around 8pm, we drove for 15 hours. As it was a weekend most of the good hotel was booked, so we opted homestay, After roaming we end up in decent hotel, but the prices of the hotel and food seems to be expensive .The next day we visited temples, monuments and in the evening we watched sunset at Hemakuta hill.That’s  our day end in hampi.

Next morning, we strated from hampi to jog falls through mountains, small village, agricultural lands and forest. Finally we reached jog falls at 3pm. the view of falls was just exquisite.There are two view points. There are totally 1400steps for the falls. The entrance timing to go down on the steps are 10:00 am to 4;00pm. Make sure you go there before 4’o clock. we missed it by 2minutes. We regret it. Maybe next time we ll make sure we check timings before we start. We spend some time by standing there enjoying the beauty of nature.

Then we continue our ride in the evening to murdeshwar. The road was middle of hills, we somehow managed to reach Murdeshwar before midnight  and stayed in a hotel nearby. Then next day morning we visited the shivan temple and Lord shiva statue ,which is the second highest statue in the world. The we went to top of the gopura which was 123feet and witness the breathtaking view of statue, beach and sea. Then we spent some quality time in the beach.

Then we headed back to home through cities, forest and hills in the rain covered with fog. In this trip we spent most of our time on bike than staying and visiting places and lot of things wasn’t going as per plan . which was out of our comfort zone.

But Everytime when we drove a hills which was covered by fog , Roads of small village, brisk weather and drizzle it all made us excited and bring smile in our faces . It made the 1000miles of this road trip a memorable one.

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