Bangalore-Somanathpur-Talakad

This was a real unplanned trip. Was Sitting alone on a Friday night on the terrace and something just clicked the mind that how about a rainy ride someplace near. It was also a long time that I and White Knight haven’t been on a long ride. Plan was simple, start early in the morning and be back by 4ish to Bangalore.

All packed and ready by 5:15 in the morning as I wanted to avoid the morning traffic on the Mysore highway. Was sure about the road till Malavalli but from there to Somanathpur was completely new for me. I reached my first destination at 9:00 as the roads were a little confusing.

After spending around 30 mins clicking lot of photos it was time to move towards Talakad. This is actually a religious and also famous for river Cauvery taking a nice turn towards other direction. The road from Somanathpur to Talakad was non-existent. After travelling for more than an hour just to cover those 34 kms I was finally at Talakad. After a nice 1 km long trek in sand completed the visit to all the 3 temples.

By the time I was back to where I started from the time was already 11:45 and I was feeling like I didn’t had food for more than a weeks’ time. But to my disappointment the road from Talakad to Malavalli were not that great, so by the time I reached Mcdonald’s it was almost 1:30. Had nice Burgers and French fries and it was time to head back home. By the time I reached Bangalore it was almost 3:30, thanks to the between two ZMR’s(white knight and another black ZMR) . All in all a nice trip, except for the rains that were missing this was actually my main idea for the long drive.