Rocks really Rock in Antaraganga a.k.a Dakshina Kashi (also Koti-lingeswara trip)

We started towards Kolar by 6:30am, Route was, B'lore --> KRPuram -->Through Hoskote--> -->NH4-->Kolar, From Kolar bustop take left (Dont forget to have food in Kolar) -->Antaragange (a.k.a DakshinaKashi)

There are steps which take you to Vishwanath temple, but we tried our own way through the Mighty hill of majestic rocks. Route was little risky but Wat's the fun in life without risk.....
It was nice small trek, not very tiresome. Nicely arraigned rocks on each other are real eye candy. Another proof for Mans architecture can never match natures creativity.

We climbed down to Vishwanath temple & Antaraganga. Antaraganga is the water flowing continuously from Nandi's mouth 24/7, all throughout the generations. Local people told, they never saw, the water drain stopped. Also, no one knows abt the source of the water. We took bath in the shower of that cool water n took darshan, played with the monkeys.

KOTI-LINGESHWARA trip....


It was lil more than 1:00pm when we came down. Had enough time to kill through the day, n decided to go to Kotilinga near KGF. It is around 30KM from Kolar, good place with over ONE CRORE shiv linga's. Nice place to take your parents n Grand parents. Also 108ft big Shivlinga was center of attraction.

Skandagiri (place above the clouds)

It was Thursday, was rearranging the mail box & suddenly saw an old mail (forward). Thought of doing some adventure & forwarded to friends, few brave guys (like me... of course) responded. As usual no plan is the best plan (my strategy for effective planning), Me, Kumar, Prabhakar, Ishwar & Chamnesh, packed some food, took a torch & few bed sheets, took our bikes (mine Honda Unicorn, Yamaha RX135 of Kumar & Ishwar's passion) & started from Bangalore towards NH7 at around 8:00pm.

It was totally drizzling all the way; it was my first long drive during night, so resisted the temptation of breezing ahead & just kept on following the reflector of Kumar & Ishwar till we reached kalavarahalli by 11:30pm. Parked bikes, took rest in front of Omkara Jyoti Ashram, hired a guide & started to trek by 12:00 midnight.

We didn’t even need a torch; moonlight getting reflected over the rocks was really awesome. Drizzling rain made it a lil complex but more rememberable trek. By 2:30 am we were at the top of the hill (1750 mts) & in the clouds, totally worn-out & badly in need of sleep. We couldn’t sleep outside b'coz of strong chill breezes, rain, fog & cold. Nothing was visible after couple of steps. Couldn’t even find dry woods to lit camp fire & had no tents & hence slept in the temple for around 2 & 1/2 hrs...
It was 5:30 AM, felt water falling over my head that made me wake up. Ohhhh boy, never experienced that coldness of whether & never want to experience also. We started climbing down by 9:00 am after some timepass (others we aramse coming up at that time). Came down taking the pics & climbing all possible rocks.

Climbed down the hill by 12:30PM, started riding back from Nature's architecture to manmade concreet jungle. This time, I couldn't resist the temptation of flying my unicorn & raced back to bangalore covering almost 45kms till hebbal in 30 mins & just another15 kms till Indiranagar in another 1hr. This clearly shows the significant change inside & outside the cities....

Came back to noisy, polluted yet breadearner city Bangalore by 3:00 pm on Sat...