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Very good place and photography, but I suggest you to use a Freeware, that doesn't bookmark images, with "Trail Version" or any such un-needed text. There are loads of them available online.

Nice Teaser ..

I got one of them,from next travelogue it will not be there,for this travelogue
please stay with me..


Thank you sir..

very sacred place if you know what i mean (most tamils know why) .
please keep posting me too want to go to this place .

I came to know about the place after coming back ...
I will post the travelogue very soon..

Even I want to go there one more time..

Can you reveal the myth about being Scary ?

An UnPlanNed RiDe to"YERCAUD". A Ride for sake of riding

Like the most of my other trips I printed the maps from google map,and prepared my route .
Though this time I was bit tensed as I planed this trip as a one day trip,one way is 350kms, so total riding would be 700kms,and this is the 1st time I am going to ride with Sujoy..
But this plan didn't work..

I planed this trip for the 1day holiday *after cat2 exam..

We slept early and started the journey at 3.30 am..
The last evening I checked the air pressure,engine oil level(I had 1 lit extra for topup)..

Now its time to photo blog...


starting my journey


I reached krishnagiri in just 2 hours ,means in proper time


this NH is like my second home,because every weekend i need to ride on this road


The 1st view of sun


the road side pic


entering salem..




only in INDIA


Reached salem




the highway to hills


getting closer to hills..



Now here I could not find the main road for kolli hills..
As we asked the local people the showed the road which was not in our map,and we lost our way.
That time the sun was scorching on our head, and we need to go 100kms more to reach on normal village road,and no sign of hill on our sight ..
We were very tensed and worried about the place...

::: This time we didn't had any camera so we clicked all the pics on our 2mp mobile camera, SORRY for picture quality...

To be continued ..............

This is one of my favourite places...have visited as many times as possible. I have stayed in wild orchids / nalla thambi / kolli resorts / xxx named resorts there.

Have quite a lot of myths around in this hill, known for its medicinal research n stuff, good villages around, the falls which you have clicked...try visiting the same now and it would be pouring like hell. Walk through the stream and you would enjoy the nature. I have few of the snaps in my profile

Nice ride and lovely pictures there ! It really is a great place and thankfully not yet too commercialized- except, I think, during a certain period of the year. The 70 hairpins are great fun too

Cheers & Ride Safe

Even I have a plan to visit this place one more time..

Thank you..

"during a certain period " .. when is it??

Sorry for being late..

Continued after 1st part......

As we could not get any sign of hill or our position in our printed map,we followed the route showed by local people ..
After crossing 100kms of normal village road we could find the hill road consists of 85 hairpin bends..YEAAAA..

Our cup of joy overflowed ...

the 1st sign..



one more..


photo shoot break..

After crossing the hairpin bends we found that roads are in "working progress " condition ,
They was allowing us to move further ..But that was me didn't listen to anybody started riding on rough road full of sand,stone chips etc..


U can have a idea

Even I fell down once when I started to ride with pillion on this road but nothing happened ...

We continued our journey to Akash Ganga water falls ,where we encountered 1000steps ..
But we could find this




it was really huge and full of water ..

Do you know the history of this name Kolli hills ...

These mountains were sometimes known as "Kolli Malai", the "^{Mountains of Death}". The reason is that early literature records the existence of an image called Kollippavai on top of these hills. This image was believed to represent the spirit of a maiden who lured wayfarers by her beauty and then killed them.



After visiting this place we decided to stay here for the day,,start searching for lodge ,,
But no hope ,we came back to simmendu ,which is 15 km before the kolli hills and the city point ,where I got the lodge .
Two bed 450/- one night ..

With parking place also..good deal at that moment



from the busstand I clicked this..

then lunch and rest for 2 hours in room as we was tired ..

To be continued ...

promise to upload very soon..

The locals were telling us about a time of the year when a festival is held at the temple there and a large number of people visit Kollimalai during this period according to them, unfortunately i forget the exact time of the year

Cheers !

Cheers !

But the place is awesome without the large number of people..

I will upload the rest of the story soon, Please stay tuned..

After the sleep we had enough energy to travel around again *:P
We started riding to the places of interests ,by following the map on Bus stand..
What we could see,my photos will tell you the story..





View from sikkuparai View point




some more pics..




posing time..


vassalurpati Boat house..

Some more pics..




the road sign.


Can you think that its a river..
Yes,a river they have blocked the river and using the water for farming paddy..






This was on the road side..

After that we call it a day,and switched of my bike engine for that day..

Next morning we took breakfast and started return journey at 8.30am, but after coming down to plan land ,it was very hot..
Its was nearly impossible to ride,we were riding for 30mins and was taking rests, we were making our gloves wet and riding,taking lots of water to get rid of this hot temp,at 4pm we reached Krishnagiri,from there my place is only 130 kms, but we decided to wait in the KRP dam park for some time to take rest then we will start again..

"HERE I AM , ON THE ROAD AGAIN,
HERE I AM * TO TURN THE PAGE"

sOME photos from coming back journey..






coming back journey











no need to say any thing















the HIGHWAY..


KRP dam


A beautiful shot..

Hope the travelers will get some info from this travelogue , hope you all will like it.. *
MY road of journey still continues ..............

Total distance traveled 850kms (appx)
No bike trouble, engine oil topped up (250ml), as it was nearly 700kms old..