Every month I go visit my in-laws in a place called Nilambur, on the way to Calicut. Been doing this route for a year now. Since this circuit (a subsection of the Bangalore-Ooty & Bangalore-Calicut routes) has already been written about in detail elsewhere, I'll just stick to a pictoral update of the road conditions as of July 2008. Hope these pics will be enticing enough for members who have not yet come this way!
Pic.1 Bangalore-Mysore NICE road (not the usual route but took it as a detour).
Pic.2 Bangalore-Mysore road a view.
Pic.3 Bangalore-Mysore road another view.
Pic.4 Mysore outer ring road. Helpful if you want to avoid the city.
Pic.5 Mysore-Gundlupet
Pic.6 Gundlupet fork. Left road goes towards Ooty-Gudlur and the right one towards Sulthan Bathery-Kalpetta.
Pic.7 Gundlupet-Bandipur. Roads become bad...
Pic.8 ... then disappear altogether!
Pic.9 Sunflower field by the roadside.
Pic10. Inside the forest - Bandipur side.
Pic.11 Inside the forest - Mudhumulai side, with a couple of tame elephants who were willing to pose as wild elephants!!
Pic.12 Outside forest - approaching Gudlur.
Pic.13 Near Gudlur.
Pic.14 Nadugani - Tamil Nadu section.
Pic.15 Nadugani - Kerala section.
Pic.16 Nadugani - Kerala section.
Pic.17 A scene by the roadside - mist covered mountains.
I wanted to take a few more pics but since I was travelling with my wife & baby, I didn't want to prolong the trip unnecessarily . I plan to take some more pics of the area around Nilambur & Gudlur when I go next month.