My weekend:400 years old Banyan tree and Manchinabele Dam Hi This is my first trip in my Baleno. Trip to 400 years old Banyan tree and The Dam , nearly 40Km from my house.Planed to go by 7 in the morning with my wife son and two of my friends, as expected we started by 8:15 (1hour 15minuted late), Got the air and fuel checked at the nearest petrol pump (CV RAMAN NAGAR).journey was quite pleasing as it was holy and there was no trafic problems at all. Reached the Mysore road and was so happy to drive this monster machine, its an awesome road ,i could actually feel the strength of the engine , its quick and very responsive.We stopped in front of RV Engg. College to have the breakfast at the udipi hotel. after having our breakfast we enquired bout the route from the shopkeeper and started again, Hardly after 5 to 6 Km we locted the dental college from where were suppose to turn right,with this turn end the pleasure of driving the baleno , the road to Banyan tree is horrible Infact I will say there is no road at all just the rocky surface the car was just shaking from every directions , we were draging our car at 20kmph and I was just waiting for the Banyan tree now , and finally after half an hour we reached this place, It was intersting to see this tree though it doesnt
look like a singl tree (As they say its 400 years old and spread on 3 acres).but definetly a different kind of place to visit . from here i wanted to go to Manchinabele Dam actually i was intersted in the river
We started from Banyan tree toward the Dam , now again we were on some really bad road and just moving ahed askin the ppl around abou the Dam.After covering around 8 kms we finally got to see the river.. thats it
now i just stoped my car and walked toward the river .We felt so relaxed here , took snaps , spent arond 1 hour near this river and we were fresh and full of energy again. Now we started back , droped the idea of visting the Dam
and move back to bangalore. we All were feeling hungryas it was already 1:30 by time we strted from there. at around 2:30 we reached the Ulsoor Lake, Next to Gurudwara there is nice Dhaba , we had our lunch and with a glass of lassi said bye to the place and reached back.
Distance covered nearly 100 KMS.
Fuel: normal Unleaded Petrol 9 lts.
half the journey on AC
will post the Pics soon
Karan
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