Nandi Hills
I was on vacation during the last week of 2005. Since it would be the last week and New Year round the corner, all the resorts and popular places would be full. Every one had different plans for Christmas and New Year. Nandi hills is the nearest hill sta
tion from Bangalore. Nandi Hills is 65 kms from Bangalore. I took my cruiser bike (Eliminator) on Wednesday, stuffed my bag with couple of camera, binocs and a set of clothes. I refueled my bike @ shell petrol pump in Yeshwanthpur. Shell petrol pump is the place where I normally fill the gas. Hit the Hyderabad highway around 11 am. You need to take a left turn on the high way to reach Nandi Hills one more left and a right turn should take to you the base of Nandi Hills. The curves(Hair Pin bends) start from here, 44 hair pins bends (curves) till you reach the peak. I like the straight line speed of my bike. I had touched 100 kmph on the highway already. When there was not traffic on the high way. I would stretch my legs straight, felt like I was riding a chopper bike. I wanted to enjoy my ride; there was no hurry to reach the peak. Eliminator lacks a bit when it comes to cornering. I am not sure is that my riding style or because of the length of the bike, I was little cautious while negotiating the curves. I had ridden on the same circuit on a RX135 in Nov 2004. I had enjoyed my ride on a RX 135 on the curves. The 2 stroke engine rocks in hill station. I track surface on the way to Nandi Hills is pretty hard. It will punish your tyre if you brake too often. I didn’t have a pit stop before reaching the top. I parked my vehicle in the parking lot and made all the way walking to the reach the top. I was not sure if I would get an accommodation. If I get an accommodation @ Nandi Hills I would stay back and return on Thursday or else ret
urn on Wednesday itself. After talks with the horticulture dept, they agreed to give me accommodation @ the Nehru nilaya managed by the horticulture department. I dumped my luggages at the room and carried only the cameras and binocs. Started to roam around the place, took some shots of the flowers in the garden. The VIP suite had an old fan in the 1st floor, probably that’s the oldest fan I have seen with 4 wings and blades in front. I had ordered for some food in the canteen. This canteen can only be used by the people who stay at the guest house. I had walked enough, the rice along with rasam tasted well for the amount of walking I had done. After lunch went around exploring new things near tippu drop. The fort walls are fallen down at many places. It was very windy on top of the hills next to the temple. I walked all the way to the parking lot to put my vehicle in a proper place. I parked my vehicle inside the shed. As I was heading down the sunset was nearing. The temperature gradually decreased as the sun disappeared. I took a nice walk around the campus after dinner. There was no crowd after 8 pm. How often would you get such weather, cool wind breezing and now crowd, no mobiles to trouble you? I was enjoying my last days of 2005; it wouldn’t have got much better than this. I went to sleep around 11 pm.
Got up @ 5 am it was still dark, nothing visible outside. Slept for some more time, got up ag
ain @ 6:30. Still poor visibility, decide to take a walk. As I walked to the hill top the view from the KSTDC restaurant was too good. I was surprised by the mist which started to pile up the hills. I couldn’t believe I would have got this spectacular view. I wish I could have walked on this and reached the sun. The mist started to rise still further and covered the hills completely. I stood here for close to an hour watching the movements of the mist and sun rise through the mist. The mist covered the gardens the dew drops looked like jewels around the leaves and flowers in the hill station. The mist completely covered the hills completely and making visibility poor.
I had my breakfas
t and left Nandi hills around 11:30 I stopped only once near Nandi cross for a drink and reached Bangalore around 1 pm.
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