{"id":398,"date":"2016-10-08T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthu.co\/?p=398"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:05:35","slug":"road-trip-to-avalabetta-and-nandi-hills-from-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/road-trip-to-avalabetta-and-nandi-hills-from-bangalore\/","title":{"rendered":"Road trip to Avalabetta and Nandi Hills from Bangalore"},"content":{"rendered":"

An idea of a trekking trip took us to the peak of Avalabetta hill which is around 100kms from Bangalore on Hyderabad highway.<\/p>\n

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This is what it looks like from the top, greenery as far as you can see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We started\u00a0at around 7:30 A.M and\u00a0stopped at Nandi Upachar right next to the road leading to Nandi Hills.\u00a0The restaurant was crowded, we had to wait 10 mins for a place. The food was tasty but the service was slow, I would blame it on the number of customers they had to serve. Right after our\u00a0breakfast we were back on\u00a0road.<\/p>\n

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The drive was\u00a0smooth, I\u00a0hardly switched gears. The scenery around is a delight to watch. We found a marigold farm we couldn’t resist stopping by. We took some pictures and were back on road.<\/p>\n

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Few kilo meters from the marigold farm ended our highway route\u00a0from where\u00a0we took\u00a0a left to enter the Yerramaranahalli village. The road wasn’t good\u00a0as expected but was drivable. A lot of bikers were riding back home\u00a0as\u00a0it was noon\u00a0already. They probably\u00a0came a lot earlier in the morning.<\/p>\n

We again took a break for a while to check\u00a0out the farms.\u00a0A friendly villager came and asked us where we are from in Kannada. She may be wondering why\u00a0we are\u00a0so excited to see the corn fields.\"art-img-20161003-wa0016\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A group of not so friendly goats we wanted to take picture with but could not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The slope\u00a0uphill was steep with bikes and cars coming from both sides. It was a tough ride but we reached the top\u00a0without much problems. The place was crowded more than I expected but\u00a0had ample parking space for cars and bikes. There is no entry or parking fee. There are many small shops up there one\u00a0can buy water, fruits, juices, cigarettes and chips from. Visitors can look around, take selfies, sit and chat with friends or just sit and stare at the world.<\/p>\n

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We wanted to take a picture at the much talked about scary spot but\u00a0unfortunately it\u00a0was closed. There is a temple at the top you reach by\u00a0stairs.\u00a0The walk up the stairs was physically exhausting but the view from top\u00a0is worth it.<\/p>\n

There are\u00a0many monkeys running around the trees. The temple priest asked us to keep our phones inside as the monkeys may snatch them.<\/p>\n

We came down the stairs and were back on road. It was 4:00 P.M and Bangalore was just 2 hours. We\u00a0decided\u00a0to visit the Nandi Hills as they are open till 6:00. We followed the Google Maps and reached Nandi hills in an hour. It was near sunset\u00a0which made Nandi better than I ever experienced it.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the pics of the beautiful\u00a0evening taken by us at Nandi Hills.<\/p>\n

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It was still fairly crowded for the closing time. A perfect picnic spot for families and friends.<\/p>\n

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Heading back we found two monkeys sitting on top of our car. We had to ask the security\u00a0to help us.<\/p>\n

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The last time I came\u00a0here\u00a0was to see the sunrise, after 7 years it was the sunset.<\/p>\n

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An idea of a trekking trip took us to the peak of Avalabetta hill which is around 100kms from Bangalore on Hyderabad highway. We started\u00a0at around 7:30 A.M and\u00a0stopped at Nandi Upachar right next to the road leading to Nandi Hills.\u00a0The restaurant was crowded, we had to wait 10 mins for a place. The food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}