Gokarna!

(10/10/16) - Since a long time I had not seen such a beautiful place as Gokarna!! Kudle beach and Om beach are just awesome - we went to beach almost daily - afternoon/evening. Our stay at gokarna was excellent and may be thats why overall trip was wonderful. Been to Idgunji, Murudeshwar, Mirjan fort, Yana and Vibhuti falls as well. They are nearby places - where we go via nice scenic route - complete western ghats. The local travel on bike - the narrow roads, temples, beach walk, the foreigners, priests, the cashew factory, small shops, beach side cafes - excellent!!! A small town - for a nice family outing.

Lepakshi Temple!

( 25/3/16): Lepakshi is a small town in Andhra Pradesh (near to Bangalore) is famous for Virabhadra temple built in 15th century by Vijayanagara kings. The sculptures in the temple and paintings on the ceilings are worth watching. The guide gave wonderful explanation with some local stories about the temple construction. But still as we went in hot summer, its difficult to walk that big temple which is one a small hilltop.  Overall a nice day outing – away from Bangalore.

San Jose Visit

(Jan 2016): This was just a two week visit to San jose - some office project/meetings - have seen the tasman drive where there are many cisco buildings on both sides of the road.  This time I had been to SFO - a different kind of city. Its all ups and downs - the entire city - totally hilly area. But was able to visit both SFO bridge and the bay bridge - the aqurium/cruise at pier 39. Also been to santa cruz - the mystery spot and the west cliff drive. 

I was away from family for two weeks - but was able to meet some of my old friends. I met some of them after almost 12 years.. a long time.

Beautiful Malnad!

Malnad (Dec 2015): This was a well planned trip to malnad area where we had booked a wonderful home stay for a few days - just 8km from jog falls.  The food was nice veg food and it had nice plantation as well. There were many places which were around 30-40kms from this place. Most of the places are temples – but the best part of that is the drive and also the places are very scenic. I had been to many religious/historic places - Hosagunda, Varadahalli, Ikkeri, Sigandur, Shashastralinga, Sondhe and a few water falls like Unchalli and world famous Jog falls. There is not much water in this season in Jog falls – but Unchalli had some water and drive was excellent. This place is some 26 KM inside and not a regular/busy tourist place - but an amazing view.