Bengaluru Sawaara

A half a day outing to visit the great Adiyogi and breakfast at Nani hotel | The Crew: Prashanth,Pallavi, Kaushik, Prathiksha. Background:  Just after our first ride of 2023  we decided that we will visit Mandaragiri Hills and agreed to go there on the last weekend of January. But wait things don't go as per plan, the day before the ride I get a text from KK with a completely different plan since the newly wed got an invite for a royal stay at his granparents place. So Tumkur road got shifted to Airport road.  About the place: Isha Bengaluru(more of Chikkaballapura) - https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/center/sadhguru-sannidhi-bengaluru  Nani Hotel:  Just a small hotel in Vijaypura town which serves excellent dose |  7RX3+F3 Gandi Chouka, Vijayapura Town, Karnataka    The Day: The nicest aspect of leaving early is that we get to experience the deserted city streets and typical Bengaluru weather. As per usual, we left home at approximately 6:45AM beca...

A breakfast ride to visit the unexplored Nelligudde Kere(NG lake) | The Crew: Prashanth, Pallavi | The Ride: Duke 390. Backgroud: So it had been a week or so since we visited Markandeya hills and we had an extra off day in the mid of the week(Jan-26th), so by default we thought of exploring something new and also not crowded. Started we looking for spots online and saw very few posts/videos about this unexplored gem - NG lake a.k.a Nelligudde kere. About the Place: Its just another lake with spectacular view. | R96G+H4M, Muddapura Karenahalli, Karnataka 562109 The Day: Since the distance was less and it was only two of us we didn't have to think about coordinating with friends. We started around 6:45 and maps showed ETA of 8AM. As usual google maps suggested some inner roads to exit the city where road conditions were pathetic.  The Views and disaster:  Within no time we touched the mysore road and this is where maps started to have fun with us. We entered some unknown villa...

A short day ride from Bengaluru to Markandeya hills (Kolar) | The Crew: Prashanth, Pallavi, Kaushik, Pratiksha | The Ride: Duke 390, 390 Adventure. #CouplesRide :) Background:  Two weeks of 2023 had passed; work was getting hectic and bike was lying in the parking without any action for almost a month now (Not considering the basic city commute). Our (Prashanth & Pallavi) resolution for 2023 was to travel more and wanted to kickstart (or self-start :P) the travels ASAP. Got the pillion seat upgraded from a local vendor and installed backrest and a top box for my bike and a message went out to Kaushik - "Bro, what plans for weekend?" About the place:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markandeya_Hill   323V+XGX, Kolar, Karnataka 563137 The Day:   So, we had decided to start early and reach home by lunch time and planned to start by 6:30-7AM and meet just after KR puram bridge. As planned we left at 6:45AM and took Indiranagar road to reach KR puram while Kaus...

 A day ride from Bengaluru to Gandikota. | The Crew: Prashanth(Duke 390), Kaushik(390 adventure), Sarath(Z650) Location: https://goo.gl/maps/umJPHcvxgwmPtTx6A About the place: Wikipedia to make life easy(for me 😄 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandikota Background: It was new year and had been a while since I went on a motorcycle ride, I had switched my role in office and was working for a new team and still had time to plan such small outings. The plan was to ride to Gandikota on Republic day but we couldn’t do it since Kaushik was yet to recover completely from COVID-19 , so we decided to push it . Fast forward two weeks and he was back in shape so eventually republic ride almost became Valentines day ride(FYI: It was on 12th and not 14th). On 11th evening I meet Sarath for the first time and we got his chain lubed so that the beast is all set for morning. TheDay: Plan was to leave our places at around 5:30AM but we were late by 10-15mins. I meet Sarath at JP nagar...

A short drive from Bengaluru to Gudibande | The Crew: Prashanth, Pallavi, Pavan, Chaitra | The Drive: Honda Brio Background: So it was almost the peak end of January in the year 2022 and both me and my wife were bored sitting at home and following our regular routine. Despite our love to travel we had to stay at home due to the third wave of COVID-19 that had become horrendous. My wife’s exams got postponed by a week and we got a weekend that did not have any work related stuff on out to-do lists. We had been planning to go out for a while and started googling places near by and believe me we got about 30+ places to visit. After a while we finalized that will visit Gudibande and Vatadahosahalli lake which is close by the fort. We called my brother in law and checked and they were in too so we finalized that we will hit the road on Sunday Feb 6th 2022. About the place: Wikipedia to make life easy(for me 😄 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudibande The Day: We woke up aroun...