3rd March 2010, 15:37
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| Scenic Charmadi Dear All, I am immensely delighted to share with you yet another travelouge, A journey through "Charmaadi" which is also a part of the Magnanimous Western Ghats. Indeed its trekkers paradise and very certainly for nature lovers. Sumamry of our journey: Mangalore -> Charmadi-> Balehonnu r->Mangalore The excitement to drive thru the mighty ghats started as we were heading for Balehonnur from Mangalore. Not many pics could be clicked on the way as we actually had set out to get our cousine brother engaged. Just to mention here, Balehonnur is a beautiful place as well. Your sure to live upto a 100 as the place is quite remote and away from human intervension with nature. On our way back , We the wild hogs quenched our thist with Charmadi. Like always the camera got busy. We stopped only at places that caught our attention the most. Well !! every curve thru the ghats is simply mindblowing and tempting enough to stopby. Unfortunatlely it was almost evening when we entered the ghats and therefore had to cross before it got dark. There are many falls and beautiful water streams in charmadi that are just perfect wallpapers. We missed them this time but surely, will try to hitch a ride again to uncover the deeper charmadi. And ofcourse, this journey thru the mighty ghats would not have been so interesting without my fully loaded, fully enthusiatic companions.  With this little note ill let the pictures do the talking.  Cheers          |
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3rd March 2010, 19:46
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3rd March 2010, 22:39
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| Senior - BHPian  | Had taken this pic in 2007..a very scenic drive with lots of fast curves...though now its in very bad shape. If driving from bangalore ,you can take the Hassan-Belur-Mudigere-Charmadi-Dharmasthala -mangalore route  Last edited by Rehaan : 4th March 2010 at 02:13. Reason: Welcome back SS! Few things have changed since you were here last - see the new way that you have to upload pics in the Announcements section. Cheers. |
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3rd March 2010, 23:51
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4th March 2010, 00:08
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 Here is my collection of Charmadi ghats Last edited by VTEC_Rocks : 4th March 2010 at 00:15. Reason: Photos added | |
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4th March 2010, 07:07
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| Wow, no heavy transport vehicles on Charmadi Ghat, how on earth did they manage that? This is teriffic news! I am cancelling my train tickets and driving down for sure, in April. Thanks guys, for the good news |
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4th March 2010, 10:16
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4th March 2010, 10:25
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With four laning work going on the NH 48 runway ,its a boring drive till Hassan.The fun starts after you take the right turn from Hassan. Another route is to drive all the way till Sakleshpur and take a small road to Mudigere about 2-3 kms before the Shiradi Ghat.This road passes through the jungles and through some awesome scenery.And ..you wouldnt have mobile phone coverage on this route. Wait for HVK to give you the exact numbers | |
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4th March 2010, 12:13
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 . Last I heard, this road was pretty pathetic. I agree about the awesome scenery though. This road joins the Belur-Mudigere road at Jannapura. @PearlJam, I don't think that the pics are recent. They probably are taken just after the monsoons. Last edited by addyhemmige : 4th March 2010 at 12:15. | |
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4th March 2010, 12:18
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The last that I had driven on this route ( the deviation before Shiradi) was in 2008.I was forced to take this route whenever there used to be blocks on the Shiradi ghat.It wasnt bad at all except at a few places.BTW i used to drive a zen and had absolutely no problems at all .I will try and get pics of this . There was a 20 kms bad stretch just before Charmadi that you would get anyways ...no matter what route you take. | |
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4th March 2010, 12:31
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4th March 2010, 16:20
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4th March 2010, 17:38
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| BHPian  | Awesome! I have some pictures too, just have to find them Its best to go there just after the rains, all the hills are green in color, covered with long grass. The last time I took this route was in September. There were bad stretches for about 25 kms. It was not as bad as going through Shiridi - you are left shaken so badly. And yes, poor car! |
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30th July 2010, 08:42
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| Will be passing thru the ghats next month, cant wait to see how beautiful they have become due to monsson  |
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