Some old trips - Mekedatu & Chunchi falls July 2004
This is one of the first trips I made from Bangalore. I don't remember a great deal of the incidents from the trip, except the tea from the way-side teashop. They made some amazing tea and hot chilli bajjees.
Sreejithettan, who is now married and working at Singapore came with the idea of the trip, and we decided to take that on the bikes. Sreejith (Mongs) joined us and so did my cousin Jatheesh. We took off on two bikes.
Mekedatu is about 95 kms from Bangalore on the Kanakpura route. Once reaching Sangam, one has to cross the shallow Kaveri to reach the other bank. From here one would take a locally operated, archaic, bus that took people into the jungle and to Mekedatu.
While riding up I remember seeing a board that read "Dangerous curves. Go Slow". I ignored them and in the next curve my bike swerved so much that the understeer took me almost off the road. As soon as steadied the bike and looked up, the next board read "You have been warned!". That was quite an eye opener.
Chunchi was 5 kilometers from Mekedatu, on the way back to Bangalore and it was awesome waterfall silently tucked away in a hillside. We went as close as we could to the waterfall and enjoyed the spray of water!
posted by ദീപക് -:-Deepak @ 12:52 AM
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