Wayanad

A very beautiful hill station in God's Own Country...

From Bangalore... 250kms from Bangalore.. You can reach Wayanad from Bangalore via mysore, gundalpet. Its always better to stay in Kalpetta, as this is a central point from where you can cover most of Wayanad.

One of the must visit place is Manathavady.. On the way you will get worlds second largest dam build with sand.., Banasura Sagar.. Near Mananthavady, you can visit 'Kurava Islands', 'Pazhassi's Tomb' ad the famous Thirunelli temple on the banks of Kabani river. Also there is a sanctuary at Tholpetty, were you can have a ride through the forest.



Pookkode lake near Vythiri..., you can enjoy boating here. Two beautiful waterfalls are there in and around Meppady, Sujippara and Meenmutty. To reach meenmutty you have a 3hour trekking. Also there is a beautiful rose garden at Ambalavayal. The famous Edakkal Caves are also located here. There you can have a trek upto 1000 meters. You will easily spend 5-6 hours at edakkal caves. There is one more dam nearby this place, Karapuzha..



10 kms from Sulthanbathery is the famous Muthanga wild life sanctuary. Also you will get the place where it rains the most in kerala.., Lakkidi.. If you are ready to travel to Calicut from Wayanad.., you will get the beautiful Wayanad churam :-) Its very nice to drive through.., especially if you are coming during early morning.., you can enjoy the scenic beauty.. Above all Wayanad is filled with tea estates and you can enjoy the lush green vegetation....

Hoganakkal

Hoganakkal In Tamil Nadu is a beautiful water falls,140kms from e-City, Bangalore. There you find the famous bamboo boats and can go beneath the falls... its a very good place to visit, you will get fresh fried fish to eat at the shore. The boats generally costs Rs 750/-, The best route to follow is .... Reach Hosur from Ec, after the hosur bus stand take a right to the Royakotta road, head straight to Royakotta ... then reach palakkode and from palakkode to hoganakkal.



The place is also reachable from Salem.. via Dharmapuri. while going from EC dont take the Krishnagiri route as you will have to pay Tolls and also travel 40 kms extra. :)



We have already visited the place 4 times and still feel to go there again, the place is too good, to this place the transportation is not at all a problem as there are so many Tamil Nadu state buses in this route, you ca get the bus from Hosur, Krishnagiri, and if coming from salem you get the bus at Dharmapuri. There is a bus directly from bangalore and it passes EC by 6:30am

Sivana Samudram

sivana samudram is a beautiful water fall 160kms from bangalore, here you can take a good bath in the falls, also interested can do a small trek to the top of the falls, its better to plan a one day trip and on the way back to bangalore you can visit thalakkad were there is a famous shiva temple and can enjoy swimming in the kaveri river, this place is very safe to swim in the river, you can also enjoy boating in bamboo boats. From bangalore .. if starting from e-city take the nice road and reach Kanakapura road and take left and head straight, the roads are good and the traffic is less too, you can enjoy the ride.....
only thing always take the Kanakapura road and dont go via mysore road its 40 kms extra.

Yelagiri

Yelagiri in TamilNadu is the nearest hillstation in Tamilnadu from Bangalore, its almost a mini OOty, its very calm and cool place just 150 kms from bangalore(e-city).
Reaching Yelagiri , go straight on the Hosur road head straight till krishnagiri, from there take a left towards the chennai highway, and head straight till bargur and then take a right .. reach thirupattur and take a right to reach the ghats road leading to yelagiri..


The Sunset at Yelagiri is wonderful to watch, there is abeautiful lake were you can do boating, near by there is a small waterfall were you can take a bath in the chilled water.It will be a nice place to spend a night as the e climate is too good and you can enjoy a camp fire toooooooooo.. :)

North East India

The NorthEast India trip we covered Meghalaya,Assam and Sikkim.
We started for Shillong on a WED morning, reached shillong by AN, and visitd in and around shillong with Peter's brother. We stayed in a Guest house in Shillong, Shillong is a female dominated place, it was surprising to see everythings there are managed by the women of Shillong.
Next day we went to Chirapujee, to see whether its really raining there :), it was a nice place to vist,it was really raining hard, and was totally misty.


We visited the famous elephant falls, 7sisters water fall and so on.. And to our greatest surprise we met a Malayalee inside the Shillong Caves ......
Thursday evening we took a cab to Guwahati, to catch the train to New Jalpaguri(NJP) in west bengal. We boarded the train at 10:15pm and reached NJP by 7:30 am on friday.
There we had already arranged a scorpio to go to Ganktok(Sikkim) we reached Sikkim by 1 PM, from there we took lunch and started our journey to Lacheng its 120KMs streach, there is literally no roads and its a really scary road, and its a real adventure...
Friday night we stayed at Lacheng, next day early morning we started for Yumthang valley the most beautiful place we visited, its a realy good valley at an altitude of 11000+ feet. We really enjoyed the scenic beauty.


Saturday evening we reached back to Gangtok, we went for shopping in the MG Marg, its abeautiful commercial street to vist,its extremely well maintained.. Only problem we found there is the food the hotels were not that good.


Next day sunday, we started for the indo china border Nathula Pass, its one of the places you must visit if u go to Gangtok. its 53 kms from Gangtok.Near by is the BABA mandir built for a soldier.There the main thing is that you can keep a bottle of water for a day and take home and use it as a medicine, it is believed that consuming the water for 21 days will take ur illness away.

Then by late afternoon we started from Gangtok to NJP to catch the train(Darjeling Express) to Kolkatta, we reached sealdah next morning and for our bad luck that monday was All INDIA BANDH, and we got stuck at railway station, our flight back to Bangalore was at 6pm, we decided to reach the Airport some how, we tried for govt vehicles and luckily got a police jeep to go to airport, we had our food at the road side shops and took rest in a small lodge nearby airport, we reached airport by 4 and luckily our flight was not canceled and we reached back at bangalore by 9pm.