Ride to Hampi Badami Pattadakallu

About Hampi, Badami and Pattadakal

Hampi is an archeological place with more than 500 plus monument in the surroundings. Hampi is located 20km away from hospet town and is around 300km from bangalore. 

Hampi is currently the remains of vijaya nagara dynasty and also the religious center for temples.
Badami is famous for it caves and is located in the district of bagalkot, the caves of this place dates back to 540AD and is the capital of chaulkya dynasty.
Pattadakal is also located in the district of bagalkot and it is 20km away from badami, this place is located near to the malaprabha river, patadakallu encloses 9 temples of which one is jain temple, the panoramic view of the temples are mesmerizing.   

 

Hello folks, I know this is the blog to express the bike riding experience but this time I would like to include my trip to Hampi and Badami which was done with a car, I thought of including this in biketripsfrombangalore blog only because this blog might help bike riders too.  Well lets start with actually content..
This was trip which was planned a week before by Puneeth and he asked other 3 idiot's if we were interested. I would never say no to any trips most of the time, later Ravi and Deepu too joined the plan too. The initial plan was to go by bike., but due to several  circumstances, we had to agree upon with a car.

How It Went

Day 1: 
Route : Bangalore - Chitradurga - Hospet - Hampi (350KM)

It was friday 29, November all four of us had taken relieve from the offical pressure and wanted to enjoy the trip of three days. I got up 4.30am in the morning, got freshen up and started towards Puneeth's place by 5am on my bike, I was kind of depressed to leave my bike at puneeths place but still was looking forward to have a great time with my close buddies, by 5.30am everyone was ready and we started towards the outer ring road and hit AH47.

Sunrise @ AH47

Our first pitstop was somewhere near nelmangala, we pulled our car to side and puneeth opened the car boot to pull out some snacks as I was feeling hungry, and I had the full control of all the snacks, we were chatting remembering all our college day fun and was cruising on the national highway at high speed, it was 6.45am by then, and everyone wanted to go for a pee break, and in mean time sun had just began raising it was an awesome view to see the sun raising over the side of highway :)

Puneeth in middle of AH47

We took some snaps and passed considerable amount of time.

Chitradurga-Hampi

It was 7.15 by then and it was bit late as per the plan, so we started our journey, we passed the fort city and are supposed to take right turn near chitradurga, but we missed the deviation and we proceeded almost 5km ahead. later on turning on the maps we were able to make it up to the route.

The fun drive ends here, we stopped near the chitradurga hampi road for a break and took some snaps of wind mills, later we observed that the single road is full of truck traffice and believe me folks I am noot joking this traffic is as much as our city traffic, we totally drained and depressed thinking about the journey we had to cover for the day almost 130km to reach the destination, as we continued our journey to add to the bad traffic we had to face the bad road too, our Honda City was crying hitting the bumps and I could make out from puneeths face too :( .

Virupaksha Temple

After a painful 4hrs of journey we hit the hospet town, and we navigated to hampi with our navigation system which was just 15km away from hospet, by 12pm we reached hampi and checked into one of the lodge freshened up in few minutes and was ready to roam around. We were in dilemma to decide whether to take rented scooter for ride or our car, we found that car would be find to reach all the place, we got hold of a guide and we agreed to pay him 1000bugs for 6hr guidance,

Ugra Narasimha

Vitthala Temple

we started from Hampi bazzar street and visited some of the famous temples in and around hampi, narasimha temple, lotus pond, shiva temple, monolithic bull and so on and at last the most anticipated place called Vitthala temple, this is the place which had the stone chariot and pillars which can produces different notes of music, this place is to be covered through an electric vehicle as per the norms of the archaeological survey of India to save the architectures. It was 3pm by then and we were hungry and dropped to a nearby hotel to fill up the tummy, after completing our lunch session to moved towards hapi town and we were asked to see the virupaksha temple and our guide finally gave up, he was not the best as he dint stick up to his word of 6hrs, we has with us for less than 4hr and collected his full payment, anyways we didn't want to get into the scene, and we wanted to pass some considerable time at tungabadra river,

Tungabadra River

later we visited virupaksha temple and then started towards the kadlekai temple, from where we had a beautiful view of the virupaksha temple, it was almost 7pm by then, and some security guys had asked us to vacate the place, and we started towards our room, had dinner at one of the German restaurant and ended up at the room.

Day 2 : 
Route : Hampi - Hospet - Kustagi - Katral - Badami - Pattadakal - Aihole - Hunagund - Kushtagi - Hampi (320km)

We started at around 8am in the morning and badami was 150km from hampi, the estimated time to cover was 3hr and we are right on track, we crossed hospet town and hit the national highway 13,

Sunflower field

this would be yet another freeway kind of road, the condition of the NH was too good, and you could see some sunflower plantain by the side of road, we took break point at one of the plantation field for pics and later hit the road again, now the actual fun started,

Capped 180kmph

since the road was clear and straight Puneeth wanted to hit the gas to its max, it was like a drag race effect at the NH, Puneeth could make it upto 188KMPH and later deepu took the turn and he could hit 160KMPH, we crossed kustagi and took left onwards gajendragad which is a single road and we had to maintain decent 80 pace, later near katral we had another right deviation towards badami which was 35km away,

Badami

 in another half an hour we were at badami and we fascinated to see the panoramic view of the Badami caves and its surrounding from the parking spot, we took the ticket and started hiking toward the caves, this cave could be covered within 30min and view from the top of the cave was truly eye popping.

Myself :P

We spent an hour or so at Badami and then started towards pattadakallu, it was almost 12pm by then, and patadakkalu was 20km away, we took more than an hour to reach pattadakallu, thanks to the wonderfully maintained road by our government :P, anyways patadakallu was also equivalently beautiful

Pattadakallu

and seems like the architectures dates back to 800AD, after spending an hour or so at the temple we had lunch at a near by stall and then we decided head toward aihole, the condition of the road towards aihole

Pattadakallu

is one of the worst somehow made it towards aihole and truly speaking we didn't like the place at all, no maintenance nothing at all, we saw the arch sitting inside the car and we decided not to go through aihole, so we started to head back to hampi were we planned to stay for the night.

Towards Kushtagi

We stopped near aminagad and this place sell one of the best karadantu packed some sweet for home and office and we headed back to hampi, we reached hospet by 6pm Deepu noticed a new kannada movie in the nearby theater and asked us to stop over and watch the movie, and without knowing what the movie is we took ticket and entered the cinema hall, later we came to know that it was a damn horror movie based on true story it was 6-5=2 movie, after completing the show we were literally shivering and scared to enter the car also, puneeth double checked the center lock and we headed towards mild jungle of Hampi and we were scared to death :) by 8pm we entered Hampi refreshed at the room and then we decided to go to the same German restaurant, sorry guys I don't remember the place name, but these place prepares some of the best pizzas and the ambiance of the place is also too good, by 9pm we hit our bed and we planned to visit TB dam in the morning. 

Day 3: 

Route : Hampi - Hospet - Chitradurga - Bangalore (350km)

All four of us were ready by 8am and as planned TB Dam was the next spot to be visited, we reached dam by 9 am and there was bus which was ready to take us to the hill top,

Tungabadra Dam

the view of tungabadra dam from hill top was too good and we took some snaps here and there, then we moved towards the park and aquarium located at the dam area, and they have also opened  boating recently and quite well maintained. It was 11am by then, and we had to start towards bangalore by then,

Windmill near Chitradurga

so we started towards our car and we hit the crossing of chitradurga road, again the painful journey towards chitradurga started, myself and deepu were in deep sleep, the journey continued for another 2hrs and later we found some people selling bananas at very cheap price we filled up the car boot full of bananas and moved towards the AH43 we took pitstop nearby and had some pics of windmills again, finally we touched pune bangalore nh and we were happy to see some speed on speedometer again, in another 2hr 30min we were at our homes.

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