Na! It is not Khardung La. K-TOP = Kodachadri

It has been my dream to visit Kodachadri and finally it happened. I was the happiest soul on the top of the Kodachadri. A special allowance to us was the Full Moon. Yes! We climbed kodachadri at night. The trip was no less than an adventure.

The details of the ride as follows.

Riders:
ravi@17bhp (Ravi) on Red Zma.
caravikiran (Ravi kiran) on Blue P220.
HydBiker (Krishna Prasad aka KP) on Blue R-15

Number of Days: 5 days.
Total Number of Kilometers: 1980 km (out of which around 800 km in ghats)

Route:
Day 1:
Hyderabad - Karnool - Gooty - Gunthakal - Ballari - Chitradurga.
Day 2:
Chitradurga - Shimoga - Sagar - Hosnagara - Nagara - Kodachadri (Initial plan was to Jog falls hence we headed towards Sagar, but at Sagar the plan was changed and headed towards Kodachadri).

Day 3:
Kodachadri - Nagara - Thirthahalli - Agumbe - Sringeri

Day 4:
Sringeri - Kudremukha - Kalasa - Hornadu - Beluru - Hasan - Yadiyur

Day 5:
Yadiyur - Kunigal - Tumkur - Dodballapur - Chikballapur - Ananthapuram - Karnool - Hyderabad.

We reached our first destination after two days, thanks to the worst roads between Guntakal to Ballari and Chitradurga to Shimoga.

We were riding in ghats for three days and the fourth day, I was wishing when would the ghats be over. We have seen extremes of roads, excellent like race circuit roads to very worst roads where we were able to do 10 min a km.

The bikes have got lot of torture and were able to sustain the abuse. We were able to do Kodachadri from the bottom of the hill to top in just 45 min (excluding 15 min break) at night.

Some teasers



















And, A special photo....





TRIP LOG

DAY ONE:

Text courtesy: Krishan Prasad Reddy aka HydBiker
Photo Courtesy: Krishna Prasad Reddy (HydBiker) and Ravi Varma (Ravi@17bhp)

Friends, sorry for the delay in posting the log... had to struggle with the power cuts & internet account lock out! Here's Day 01 log and please bear with me until I set the alignment and insert photos. - Thank You :-)

The Trip



Day 01 :: 05.30 AM :: My Home (Pragatinagar) :: 00 KMs





PHOTO: Packed up at home


Day 01 :: 06.15 AM :: Madhapur Meeting Point :: 12 KMs



PHOTO: Ravi Varma & Ravi Kiran


PHOTO: Ravi & I + All three bikes




Day 01 ::



PHOTO: The Fog @ Shamshabad. We parked road side. Try to locate a car on the road!


PHOTOS: Another one!


Photos, cleanup visors and started moving as the visibility improved a little bit.

Day 01 ::



PHOTO: Ravi couldn't see anything. Had to clean his spects & helmet visor




Day 01 :: 08.37 AM :: Somewhere on NH7 :: 134 KMs



PHOTO: The Swift VDi crossing me at my Stop Over


PHOTO: This hill had an interesting shape... Photo at the best zoom I had!


PHOTO: Ravi & Ravi Kiran stopped here meanwhile




Day 01 ::



PHOTO: While Ravi Kiran & I wait for Ravi


PHOTO: Getting ready to start out



We rode together for another approx 40 minutes and took a pee break.

Day 01 :: 12.19 PM :: Somewhere on NH7 :: 282 KMs



Day 01 :: 01.20 PM :: 3 KM after Gutty towards Bellary on NH 63 :: 327 KMs





















03.45 PM ::



We have strongly decided not to come back by this route. We wasted about 4 hours for this 30 kms (both driving & resting) and this has shaken out every bone in our body.





Day 01 ::







Day 01 :: ~09.30 PM :: Chitradurga, NH4 Bypass :: 546 KMs



I: Sir, which way to Chitradurga City?
They: Where are you going to?
I: To Sagar, but plan to stay here for the night
They: Where would you stay in Chitradurga
I: Gotta find some hotel
They: Where are you coming from?
I: Bellary
They: Go straight. You will get into the city
I: Thnks Sir








Day 1 Summary

Route::
Total Time:: 16:30 hours
546
546
Day Highlights::

Rest of it continued.