Adventurous Bike ride from Banaglore to Hassan Sakleshpur

Adventurous Bike ride from Banaglore to Hassan Sakleshpur

One fine day we decided to do weekend bike ride and we opted Hassan – Sakleshpur, and believe me it was a great spot in Karnataka and hardly explored by many of us. We visited Hassan in month of  October โ€Ž โ€Ž2010, we had planned Hassan trip in one of the long weekend , this whole journey around ~= 600 km (round trip ) we have covered in bike , and believe me it was the unforgettable journey for us. Hassan is so beautiful , we never thought so before planning our journey , green surrounding all over the place , full of vegetation  , one best thing we can not  forget is this district is spread across lakes , yeah after every 10 minutes drive there was a lake , and lake was full with lotus flowers , swallow bird  were gliding all around , beautiful butterflies hovering at colorful flower near all the lakes, everything is still unforgettably to us, .it was so refreshing and natural. I think a visit to hassan will be a lifetime experienced for everyone.

Our Journey – 
 1st Day – Bangalore to Hassan : 

We started early morning 5 A.M from Bangalore. we had taken NICE road , after 1 hour of bike ride across Nice road we had lovely break fast at Nelamangala ,  then we started our journey again , we cross across Kunigul , Yadiyur and Chanarayapatanna, at Chanarayapatanna we had quick snacks , then we started  straight for Hasssan District , in between we found some beautiful lakes , we stopped nearby lakes , after taking couple of pictures , we started again and some where at 1 pm we have reached Hassan. we have stayed at Hotel Southern Star, i would say it was a amazing hotel at given price. after relaxing for some time, we planned to head towards Halebidu , Halebidu was the regal capital of the hoyasala empire in the 12th century, really historical area and famous for ancient temple , on the way we have came across beautiful lakes and wind mill on top of mountain , guys view was like we were in wonder land. in this beautiful lake there was a dockyard , we couldnt resist to see that view and planned to take break near dockyard, after spenting some time and taking some landscape pictures , we headed for halebidu , as it was getting darker on the way to halebidu, so we had to go back to our hotel.

2nd Day : Exploring Sakaleshpur and nearby area :

After  having testy breakfast at hotel we started our bikes and headed towards sakaleshpur area, what should i say about this place , in my point of view i would say this place is another Scotland of india apart from Coorg, we had spent whole day nearby areas , and explored couples of waterfalls.

3rd Day :  

Visit to Shravanabelagola , wildlife photography in between and back to bangalore.

About Hassan:
Hassan district is situated in Karnataka,India. It is nearly about 200 km from Bangalore. its  ancient city and it was founded in the 11th Century, Great place to Hangout over the weekend .

Places to see :
Belur is famous for  Chennakesava temple and Veeranarayana temple, and also you can visit yagachi river .
Halebidu which is only 16 km away from bellur ,it contain halebid lake,a magnificent lake view to watch ,secondly Hoysaleswara temple , containing great Hoysala sculptures and architecture. hear is beautiful lake on the way to Halebidu ->

Shravanbelagola:  is 50 Kms South-East from Hassan, a prominent Jain pilgrim center.It contain very divine and spiritual  1,000 year old 17metre tall  monolithic statue of Lord Gomateshwara . Monolithic temple and Temple->


Sakaleshpur : This beautiful town is situated in western ghat , lush green a pleasant climate , we have seen some beautiful waterfall at this place, and yeah beautiful birds too. Near sakaleshpur ->

Where to stay :               We have stayed at Hotel Southern Star, and our stay was really great , hotel staff were so polite and they had shown great way of hospitality , food was really great , they had provided free breakfast buffet, that was amazing.
         There are Other option too : Rotikallu Resort , i heard good review about it.Hoyasala Village Resort : Nice resort.


How to reach :               we will recommend to go by car , Bikers definitely try for this ride , really adventurous and full of fun, but at the same time if there are activity like hiking , trekking then it will be better to go by car and enjoy these activity.

Best time to visit: Month of octomber to december is best time to visit.

Some Photographs from Trip :

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Regards