devarayanadurga trip

This blog is on devarayanadurga trip. It was a small trip planned by shravan. It was initially planned by shravan with his office friends. But was finally done by us. The trip was on sunday 20th dec. On saturday we all friends met in our room and went to rab ne bana di jodi. Initially shravan, sarat,jaaysimha,sai and shravan's offc fnds are in the trip plan. As I was not feeling well i was out of the trip. But Sunday morning raghavendra, vijay and me joined the trip.
The speciality of the trip is it is planned on bikes. This was the first bike trip for most of us. It is only 80kms+ but going on bikes is a good experience. Finally 10 ppl made to the trip. I and sai on sai's pulsar, shravan and subbu on shravan's splendor, jaya and vijay on activa, ragha and sarat on new unicorn GP, then narendra and ramamohan on their pulsar.
All the 4 bikes started from BTM and met ragha and sarat at yeshwantpur railway station. The on-route to yeshwantpur railway station itself was funny as no one of us know the route. But we made it finally after some hiccups. Then from yeshwantpur the real journey started. I was driving the bike. So it was a good fun for me as I never rode for such a long distance.
In this blog I can explain more on our's journey(myself and sai) as most of the time in journey we are on bikes and each bike has its own experience. From yeshwantpur railway station when we started. Sarat's bike is leading the route. It is followed by me and others. After some distance we lost track of sarat. He is very much ahead of us.
Coming to the route, we googled and got some places in between bangalore and devarayanadurga which can lead us to destination. The main point is tumkur b/n these places. Before Tumkur we got a call from sarat to take a right turn from main-road. So I stopped in between the road at some petrol-bunk enquired about it and waited for other 3 bikers to come and join us. Then in the enquiry we came to know that we are on correct track and sarat-ragha took a wrong path. Then we told them about the correct route and waited for them to join us at the petrol-bunk. In this break time we had some bananas and took some rest after a long drive.
We waited for a long time but sarat-ragha are not coming. Then we thought of going back and trace them. We are calling them but they are not lifting the phone. Then finally after a long time they called us and then we came to know that they are at tumkur. Then we started our journey again to tumkur, but this time sai started to ride the bike and i enjoyed the ride sitting back. Then we all met at tumkur once again. And started to the destination-Devarayanadurga.
We took a road which goes through some villages then to the devarayanadurga hill. The road is good with no traffic and this time we are going first and others following us. Sai was drivng in 90's and the cool breeze is awesome. And this time its our turn to miss the route. There was a board on the road showing a left turn to devarayaandurga, but i and sai didn't noticed it and went some 6 kms ahead and found other board(one more way to devarayanadurga) and started waiting for others to come. No signal to call them. We waited for a long time and after that we started back again thinking we missed the route or there is some problem for others. In the back journey we came to know that there is one more way, and then we are happy that other bikers might took that route and there is no problem. Then we went back 6 kms and took the same route so that there will be no confusion later.
We started the trip thinking there will be a trek. But later came to know after reaching the place that there is no trek to do it is a bike-trek(climbing the hill on a bike). Then after reaching top we all met, got some scoldings for missing the route. On the hill there is a laxmi narayana swamy temple. So we had darshan there and there is a small hill near. So to add some trek to our list we climbed the hill, had some fun there and started back the journey.
In the return its my turn to ride the bike now. All the bikes started and when we are about to start the bike gave a problem. Its not starting, and by the time we thought of calling others they already left and no coverage to call anyone. Then after some time(by god's grace) it started and we are happy to go back. Then we started the journey back and all of us came to a understanding that who is going first should see for a dhaba for lunch and should stop others.
Sarat is going first with ragha and sai n me are following them. The back jounrey was good and special as there is no much traffic and everyone are enjoying ride in 70's and 80's kmph. I took some sharp turns and unnecessary overtakes, which made sai furious and he started scolding me. Then finally we found a dhaba and had lunch at 4 in the evening. All of us are tired and are hoping to go home as early as possible and go to bed.
After lunch we all dispersed according to the routes. Narendra-rammohan and sarat-subbu started on their bikes to go to BTM directly. Sai-me,shravan-vijay,ragha-jaya started to go to yeshwantpur then myself and jaya had to take bus to BTM, as vijay shravan sai and ragha routes are different. Then we went to malleswaram. From there I and jaya took a bus to majestic then from there to BTM. To our luck we got seats in bus to sit and go. Then after reaching BTM we had some light dinner and went to room around 9 called everyone about their home return and slept.
As it was a Sunday we had to sleep early and take rest because again the next day the usual routine starts(go to office).

The trip is not adventurous but has its own speciality as it was a trip on bikes. And for the first time in my life I rode for more than 100kms on a single day.