Jog Jog Jogad Gundi

After a month, it was time again for me to ride out. But I was uncertain as to where I should be riding out, but the urge to ride out was getting stronger and stronger. A small chat with NFSNFS (Santosh) the target destination would be the famous Jog Falls. Decided to meet and start off at 5 am from the Shell Petrol Bunk at Yeswanthpur. Somehow I’ve noticed, for whatever reason we always get delayed, as usual due to delay we started off at 6.10 am . Thanks to a big traffic jam caused by an accident near Peenya, we had do some off roading to exit from the city. Stopped at Kamat for breakfast on the NH4 on the way to Tumkur for about 35 mins. Started riding towards Arasikere and reached Arasikere by 9.15 am. A 15 mins delay at Arasikere to get the horn fixed on my bike. Continued riding towards Shimoga and reached Shimoga by 12.20 pm. We rode till Sagar and had lunch in Sagar and rode all the way to Jog and reached Jog at 2.30 pm. dumped the entire luggage in a Cloak room and started the trek down to the bottom of the falls. It took us about 45 mins or so go to the bottom of the falls. It was all fun getting down to the bottom of the falls. We did not have a clue as to what was in store for us on the way back up. Wondered how useful the lifts are. After clicking snaps we were ready to go. On the way up one guy who was drunk, was literally challenging us to trek back up with him and at his pace. It was drizzling on the way down, but to our luck, this turned completely on its head. It just got hot and humid. We started to trek back up, huh, super dehydration. We limped back to the top by 5.30 pm. We chilled there for about 45 mins. We were contemplating to ride back to Bangalore via Mangalore during the night. But this seemed almost impossible after the very tiring trek. So we decided to go to Gokarna and started off riding towards Gokarna via Honnavar. Reached Gokarna at 8.30 pm and with Arun’s help we lodged at Sea Bird Resorts. Had dinner and went off to bed.
Got up early (7 am) and we were ready by 8 am and left for the temple. Finished the Darshan and rode to the OM beach. Lovely beach, not too many people there to spoil the place. Spent about 40-45 mins there and came to the room to pack our luggage. We vacated the room to leave the AC room comforts and venture out in the humid weather and started riding towards Honnavar and next place to visit was Idugunji. We visited the temple and left the place and rode till Marvante Beach to take a few snaps and continued riding. Stopped at Kundapur for lunch. After lunch we left Kundapur (thanks to the delay @courtesy server at Harsha Refreshments) and rode towards Mangalore via Udupi. Reached Mangalore around 4.30 pm (thanks to pathetic roads that made NFSNFS to get his neck to ache, of course the roads were taking a toll on the butts too).

Stopped at BC road for coffee, just a few kilometers after BC road, the rain gods were in full fury. Rode almost non stop in the heavy rains and roads (oops I can’t call it as road as the tarmac is completely gone, and you cannot call that a road) till Sakaleshpur, It was 8.20 pm already. Started riding towards Bangalore, reached home at 12 midnight with sore butt, but a big grin on the face and part of life reclaimed

Also thanks to the Hella fog lamps which was very useful indeed….

Few more pics at the link http://picasaweb.google.com/n.krishna.p/JogFalls