Our trip to Mekedatu

It was an usual Sunday morning. We woke up around 8.30 AM. Not we, only I woke up at that time to see Viky, Ravi, B M, Dev still sleeping. Once I thought does these guys belongs to "Kumbakarna" dynasty by any chance !! Before going to bed on Saturday night, we had decided to go to "Shivanasamudra" on our bikes for a trip. But now it seemed unlikely....

Anyway, I went home (by the way, I stayed back in Ravi's house on Saturday night ) to finish the usual routine. Then again, my camp on Sunday is at Ravi's house. So drove back to his home to find the other guys getting ready, packing luggages, searching for water bottle.. huh !! Suddenly where are we heading to ? The plan has been changed.. We are going to Mekedatu.. Thats what Viky told... Fine !! Done !! We all yelled in unison !! Hurray !!!

We started on out bikes @ 10.30 in the morning. Viky and Ravi being "Wing Riders" started their Unicorn and Me being "Definitely Male", kicked my Pulsar. Dev in my bike and B M in Viky bike... Done.. Ready, steady Gooooooooo...

Heyyy stooooooop... But why ? Common, we didnt have our breakfast yet.. Hmmm... We decided to give a stop in Kanakapura Road Adigas hotel. Fund was raised and we had out breakfast.. But it was costly there. One plate Idli Vada costs you 24 bucks.. Decided not to visit that place again !! Fine, lets start.. Its already 11, I murmured. But everyone was about to start their second innings in Adigas except me and Dev.. Then they decided against it and we started.. But heyy.. one min... Petrol ?? Yeah, we have to give one more stop to fill our bike's tank... Thats also done as we got a bunk just about 1km from the hotel.. Now a straight and long journey to Mekedatu without giving any stops, we decided... Ruyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...... We started racing with our mean machines.

Dev is always bit reluctant to be a pillion rider. But now no other go. He has to. :-)... While starting from Adigas I decided to go slow till we reach the outskitrs of the city. But man, I couldnt, as vicky and ravi were racing. Even I started. All of us were going in 90+.. Whah !! What a ride !! We reached Kanakapur in no time. We packed some eatables from a "Kiraani angadi". After Kanakapura the road was really bad. To travel 30km, we took one hour or so. By the time we reach Mekedaatu it was 12.30PM.

We parked our vehicles at Sangama ( Sangama is a place where river Kaveri and Arkaavathi meets ) . Mekedaatu is just 5 km from Sangama. To reach the other end of River Kaveri you have to take a "Ukkada" in rainy season which will cost Rs. 40 per head. Yeah ! Bit costly. But cant help man.. You have to shell out money there.. But for urban people thats a different experience going in Ukkada. Once you reach the other end of Kaveri, you can walk those 5km or take the bus. There also you have to shell out 40 Rs per head for the bus. The bus is a musium piece. Please take a look at the above photo carefully, to have a glimps of that antique piece.

Anyway, we decided to take the bus, as all of us were bit tiered. We reached Mekedaatu around 1.30PM. Woooooooooow !!! Its amazing !! What a wonderful stretch this is !! You have to visit that once in the rainy season !! We climbed the rocks (BM didnt), took snaps, stared at some beautiful gals ( c'mmon, we are all bathcelors, and we are permitted to do this !! ) and we watched Kaveri, and its endless journey... It had cut rocks, waded thro' the Jungles to create that scenic beauty !! We spent quite a lot of time there. Everyone forgot about LUNCH !! Dev took a nice video as well. Han, we had a good Camera.. The one, GS bought from US...

After spending 2 hours, doing some adventure, we decided to go back to Samgama to have fun in the water. We took the bus again, back to Sangama.. As soon as we reached there, Dev sat under a tree, as he had headache. And am bit reluctant to play with water, in places like Sangama, as I had done the same thousands of times in my childhood days.. But Viky, BM and GS jumped to water as soon as we got down from bus. I played the role of a spectator well !!! Took some great (only for batchelors, on request) snaps of those guys playing with water.

Finally they came out of water afresh ( I assumed ) and we decided to move. It was 4.30 and we were yet to have our Lunch !! We were hearing lot of sounds coming from inside our stomach.. Thaa dhimi thakka dhimi tharikita dhimi ... Guess ... We were hungry !! But you cannot have anything in Sangama if you are a veggie.. So we started. We started the racing !!! This was one amazing race... 2 pulasrs ( 1 is mine, I dont know the other one, it was 180cc RED ), Viky's Unicorn, 1 Fiero and one Apache !! I never knew that Unicorn can go in neck to neck with that 180cc Pulsar.. huh !! I maintained 3rd spot ! Bronze medal for me !! I didnt see that Fiero and Apache for a long time after we gave a stop in Kanakapura :-). Well, no need to mention about GS.. He got stuck behind a car and he couldnt overtake the same !! We waited for him to reach Kanakapura.....

We entered a nice looking veg hotel. All of us played 2 innings !! And then headed back to Bangalore.. We reached Bangalore Safely by 7.30PM... It was really a nice experience and a nice, refreshing one day trip !! You also plan for it one day !! Now me signing off !! Bybyeeeee....

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http://picasaweb.google.com/bharadwaj.arjuna/Mekedatu#