Gopalswamy Betta and Bandipur!

Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta, is a hill located in the Chamarajanagar district and around 70Km from mysore. We went there by car (in Oct 2011) and till Gundalpet it was a nice drive. But then from bottom of the hill to hilltop, it’s a difficult journey (bad road, narrow as well). This temple falls under Bandipur National park area. From the mountain top we could see 3 other hill tops. Coincidentally we saw 2 wild elephants very far (miles away –on another hill) .

From there we went to Bandipur national park. Its exorbitantly costly (Rs. 300 per person) but it was nice. As expected there we saw a couple of elephants, a bison, deers, peacocks. That’s what generally everybody finds in the wild forest.

Yagati

It was a nice experience to go to my grandma's villege – Yagati (in kadur taluk) in Nov 2011, where dad studied till his 2nd/3rd standard. Going to ancestral villege gives you some very soothing feeling, may be just can't be expressed by words. There are 3-4 temples - gadagina veer narayana temple (the original statue which inspired kumara vyasa to write the kumara bharatha), gram devate, aanjanaya swami devasthana, Kalleshwara. Also there is one lake just backside of our house. We crossed the kere yeri and then went to our farm and had lots of tender coconut to drink.