Bike ride to Nandi Hills

Bike Ride To Nandi Hills

About Nandi Hills:

Nandi Hills or Nandidurg or Nandi Betta is an ancient hill fortress of situated in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka. This is a group of hills that lies at an average elevation of about 1,478 meters (4,851 feet) above the sea level, the Hills is open to public from 6 AM to 10 PM.

Nandi Hills offers historic and scenic attractions such as Tipu’s Drop, Tipu’s Summer Palace and Fort, Horse Way, Secret Escape Route, Amruth Sarovar Lake, and Brahmashram. It is also famous for its temples such as the Bhoga Nandeeshwara temple, Sri Bhoga Narasimha temple, Sri Ugra Narasimha temple, Sri Yoga Narasimha temple, and Gavi Veerbhadra Swamy temple.

Best time to Visit

Nandi hill is the place which can be visited at any time during the year. It will be cold during winter and cool during summer. There is a resort at the top of the hill which is being run by the Karnataka Tourism which offer you to stay for the night  which would be best to view the morning sunrise.

How far from Bangalore :

Nandi hills is situated at a distance of about 65 km from Bangalore, on the way to Hyderabad National Highway (NH7). This place can be easily reached as it is linked by roads with Bangalore and Chikkaballapur (24 km). 

How it went :

This is only trip wherein maximum number of riders joined the trip , expected as this is the shortest distance trip and one of the best within 100KM.

We started from our workplace at Manyata tech park, as the strength increases the the waiting time increases, I started from home by 4.20am and reached the workplace by 4.45am, and we waitind for the whole team to join, it was by 5.45am   everyone reached the spot and we started toward the destination.

On the way to Nandi

The traffic was very minimum and we reached the Bangalore-Hyderabad Highway in no time, The road till Yelanka went with all patch works as the flyover was under construction, as we crossed the yelanka market, the road turned to be silky smooth and the traffic was clear and all of us accelerated to enjoy the speed on 6 lane road. 

We kept our vision focused to find-out the sign board of deviation  towards nandi, and we are able to make out to the point in a short while.

We stopped at the deviation point for the pitstop and it was quite dark even at 6.00am in the morning, the weather was very much pleasant , and few took few snap and started towards the hill. The stretch of around 10km was not so good, the road condition was better but lots of speed breakers.  Finally we reached the point from the where the actual ride starts, the drive through the ghat of nandi hills, even though the stretch was very less as 8km but still enjoyable, should be careful about the oncoming traffic as its a single road. 

Morning view from Nandi

View from Nandi

As we started ascending we are able to see many vehicle behind us everyone comes to nandi hills basically to enjoy the morning ride. We reached the checkpost by 6.15am, the checkpost was not open yet, in another 5min few police officers opened the gate and allowed bikers to move on after checking the valid documents. 

At around 3km from the hilltop the hair pin curves started with steep range, most of the bikers would enjoy riding these kind of the stretch. We reached the top and parked our bike, few bikers had already reached the top, we took the break and had some snacks, actually snacks was for the monkeys around, they didn't leave us to have any food stuffs :)

We took the entry ticket and entered the entrance of the gate, there was a big route map of the view points located inside the nandi hills range and we followed the maps.

The first spot was the kalyani (small pond) and it was filled with the fish, manb and his wife started feeding the fish and few took few snaps. And we encircled the kalyani, the next point was the park way, where they have constructed new viewing arenas.

View Point

 Along the way there were many children's playing activities which could be enjoyed by the small kids. 

After going through all the way we reached the top the of the hill, it was very windy at the top and the view was exciting. 

There was the temple of bhoga  nandeeshwara and many other temples around it, since it was early morning the temple was not opened yet so couldn't make it out to the temple.

Group Pic

We had few food stuff which was packed last night by sonali and sushmita, which we shared among us and we were followed by a dog from long time and it was expecting some food from us so finally shared the remaining food with the dog. We started moving around and we came across the KSTDC hotel, these hotel was not opened yet, but there was a small stall in front of it who was making some hot dosas and omlet, everyone was hungry by then and we ordered one for each. It was crispy and hot and tasted better than what is being served in our cafeteria :)

Once we finished with the morning breakfast and sip of coffee we moved towards the new view platform which government had installed very latest. And the view was magnificent from the view the point.

There were lots of monkeys around and they will

KSTDC Hotel

never make you eat anything around them, we stayed at these place for long time as it was very much breezy at the top and all of us were enjoying the view. 

Then we moved toward the tippu trop, this spot is called the suicide point of nandi hills as there were many cases of suicide which had happened earlier. We spent quite a bit of time over here and Anand , Zeeshan and Sonali started making some actions pics for there social sites to be uploaded. Other people were just enjoying the activity which was going on.

We had spent enough time and since it was quite late for Mehdia as here kids were waiting for her, and we started descending to the entrance gate, we didn't wanted to leave even though it was 10am and we had spent a lot of time, still we managed to click few pics here and there and finally everyone gathered together and left to the main gate. 

View from Tippu Trop

 Everyone reached there bikes and we started toward Bangalore, we had cup of tea at the start of the hill and these is were we missed the route, myself and zeeshan were together and we missed the route and we reached chikballapur town, we asked for the correct route then and diverted towards the bypass road, by this time I was out of fuel and I stopped at the near by petrol bunk, and started slowly towards the highway, by this time zeeshan had left, to my luck there was Traffic patrol by the side of the road who were and they were charging for the excess speed, I just crossed the as I was less speed, suddenly I noticed even zeeshan was caught by the police and I had to stop, since I was native person who could talk in local language and got rid of police by paying 200bucks. Finally by around 11.30 we reached office had nice brunch and left to our home.