Namooru Mysore

Namooru Mysore

About Mysore : 

Mysore is the second largest city of Karnataka. It is known the world over for its exotic sandalwood and rich silks.Also known as the City of Palaces, Mysore retains a quaint charm, that never fails to enchant. Mysore District is a popular tourist destination, offering several attractions ranging from the royal splendor of Mysore City and its fabulous Dasara Festival to exquisite temples, pilgrimage centers and scenic spots.
Some of the attractions in mysore are Wax Museum,Railway Museum,St Philomena Church, Mysore Zoo, moolika Bonsai Garden,Karanji Lake, Lalith Mahal, Jagan Mohan Palace, Mysore palace

How far from Bangalore :

Bangalore to Mysore distance by road is about 140 kilometers.The State Highway is quite busy all the time, but yet fast moving, the approximate traveling time is 3 hours.

Best Time to Visit Mysore : 

Mysore is a place which can be visited anytime, if temperature is the concern then October to February would be the best time as the temperature would range between 20 to 28(Max) centigrade.

How it went : 

Well this would be one of the best ride had so far, not because I loved the ride. It's because someone else who wanted to go for long drive was happy. This time it's the four of us in three bikes, mine, Rajaneesh (doesn't matter where we go this guy just follows :) ) and Sonali who was driving her aviator, yes its a scooter which covered around 350+ km hats off to her interest and capability. 
Well the plan was organized just a day before and it was not to Mysore instead it was till maddur, the plan was only to have breakfast at adigas and return back home, but we did had mysore in mind and we decided we will make dynamic plan based on weather condition.

@ Adigas, Maddur

As agreed the meeting point was at nayandanahalli and time was fixed at 6, Rajaneesh was on time and he called me up I was waiting for other two girls to come near my house to join, since Rajaneesh has already reached the point I started my bike and reached nayandanahalli, had a cup of tea finally these girls came by 6.45am still its not late buy could have started earlier, we didn't wasted much time and asked Sushmita to join one of the bike, as expected she didn't go in Rajaneesh bike as it was dirty :p, all three started the bike and moved along the state highway, the traffic started building up, we just wanted to cross kumbalgodu after the traffic would reduce considerably, these route has numerous numbers of speed breaker and it was killing the most of the time, somehow we managed to move out of the traffic and was ridding towards the destination, there are few stretch before entering ramanagar district which gives mile long straight stretch I could make up to 108kmph in that road even the scooter picked up till 100. We crossed ramanagar district and chanpatna as per the schedule we had planned finally reached maddur adigas by 8am, we ordered the Crispy dosa poori vada and karabath and our tummy was full after the breakfast. Now it the time to make dynamic decision, Sonali stared looking into weather and it gave report of chances of rain, but for us the weather looked great outside, but all of us had interest to continue towards Mysore. We decided that we will go to Mysore, I was tracing behind Sonali 's bike to find out of anything is wrong with vehicle,  so far so good.

View from Chamundi Hills

The route from mandya to mysore is very impressive, very less traffic and the speed breakers drastically reduced, I zoomed to my top sped of 113 kmph which was highest till then in the long stretch, was really happy as I Reached 110 range, and the journey continued we entered the historical city of srirangapatanna, and then the traffic was to pick, now the actually person is in focus, Rajaneesh was a person who belongs to mysore and we were dependent on him for route, all the time we were making fun of him for his route map knowledge as he is kind of 0 scorer in that, but for the city of mysore he was perfect, out first visiting place was chamundi hills.we ascended the hill range easily and reached the temple premise.

In front of Mahishasura

I don't know what was the occasion but the Temple was crowded, so there was no thought of going inside the temple, we just had a far off darshan and circled the temple and moved towards the vehicle, in mean time we were crossing the market, and Sonali bought me a squeaky monkey as a gift, we went to pick up our vehicle, since the scooter had come all the way up to the hill, we had to take the pic of the scooter in front of mahishasura.

The next spot was karanaji Lake which is a kind of time-pass spot it was almost 11o clock and we decided to finish it off by 12pm.

@ Karanji Kere

We took tickets And got chance to see beautiful birds and finally to respect the word Lake we took the boat ride, Sonali was excited to drive the boat but sadly could continue for more than 2min,so it was me and Sushmita who were at the pedal, we had nice boat ride for 20min, we took rest for a while and moved towards finding place to have lunch, on the way we found the domino's and everyone seems to be interested, and ordered pizzas, once done with the domino's Sonali wanted to go for some Bombay sweets to pack up sweet for home, so the search began and Rajaneesh should be awarded to taking to the correct spot, she took good amount of sweets and I became the tasting person, the next point was KRS dam which rajjo was very much interested to go, it was 1 pm by then and as expected it took 30min for drive with a break for fuel stop, we reached KRS by 1.30 and for our bad luck we heard that the bridge get was closed for public ling back, the roar of the gush of water could be heard from kms, whence went near the dam opening the view was spectacular, never seen krs with such a fledge, just went near the grill and stood for less than dew secs, and I was complete drenched and same happened with rajjo, we spent good amount time at KRS and started marching towards our bike, the next point to be seen was balmuri which was 2km from the road of krs, and the road condition was horrible, well coming to balmuri this is the place where many Kannada films were shot and it's a beautiful location where the water ides down the human pass, but since the water flow was very high we could go to the pass by, took few snaps and vacated the place with some snacks.

Balmuri Falls

KRS Dam

It was already 3 by then, and I said we should be leaving to Bangalore by now, so the journey toward Bangalore started, rajjo knew the shortcut which could take us to Sri rangapatna and we reached the highway in a while, it was looking like it's going to rain, we hoped for the best and we were riding towards mandya, we reached maddur adigas by 4.30 and had Snacks at the place,  by this time it was slightly raining anyhow we stared out bikes and moved toward Bangalore, we crossed chanpatna and almost reached Ram nagara the cloud busted the heavy downpour started, we pulled out vehicle nearby temple and took shade for a while until the rainfall reduces, we again started out bikes and we were moving, but this time The rain that stated never ended, after lots of mismatched communication we finally pulled our vehicle side by tree, and our madam Sonali stated vibrating, I gave her my raincoat and jacket, and we decide we will move with rain, myself and Rajaneesh Atleast had riding jacket poor Sushmita didn't even had that, but she adjusts for any situation and I was driving blindly tracing rear view light of vehicle ahead and slightly visibility available as it was raining heavy,  and in between we saw a accident which chocked all of us, and I flopped my speed from 60 to 45 by then,  by around 7 pm we reached the Bangalore outskirts and we stopped at  nayandanahalli to make a disperse plan, myself and Sonali continued in out way, and  I Reached home in another 15min and the rain had stopped completely by this time, after another hour other two girls made to there destination, we had a good experience in driving on heavy rains, overall Mysore trip turned to be Good.