dummy's tale..

Friday, October 15, 2010

After so many bored weekends, we finally decided to carry our lazy bums to Bannerghatta National Park, a place which is on the outskirts of Bangalore. There were four of us : Vinit,Ashish,Saurabh and myself. We stopped in jayanagar just after IIM to have breakfast. It didn't took much time to reach the place as it was a small ride. Then roamed around the park, had Jungle safari. It was decent enough to spend some time off from the boredom. Below are the pics, which will describe better.

Route: Indiranagar-Jayanagar-Bannerghatta National Park-Jayanagar-Indiranagar

Total Distance Travelled: around 60 kms

For more pics visit: BannerGhatta National Park

Saturday, August 21, 2010

After a gap of around 10 months, we decided to have a road trip. The destination was God's own country 'Kerala'. We were total of five including myself, Hari, Raj, Venkatesh and of course Santosh with his SWIFT. We started around 7 PM from Hari's place ( Sarjapur ). The route taken was via Salem-Coimbatore as it is a toll road and expected to be good. We took few stops for dinner and loo breaks. After driving in single stretch for about 600 kms, we were there at Cherai beach (Kochi) at 6 am.

Checked-in the home stay which we booked. Took rest for a while and left for the city tour of Kochi.

Had a good lunch at the marine drive.Took a nice speed boat ride in the backwaters.

Next morning woke up and left for Alleppey.Reached in the afternoon. Took a boat ride in the famous back waters. Then went to Alleppey beach, to my surprise there were no tides what so ever even in the evening.

Next morning, we took the different route via Athirapally forest to go back, so that in the way back we could see the famous waterfall where movie 'Raavan' was shot. It was beautiful, though it took long for us as it was ghat section and we could not maintain speed. After the falls we drove back to Bangalore and in the morning around 4:30 am, I was at home.