Shivanasamudra Falls, Malavalli and Kollegala, Mandya and Chamarajanagar Districts

After visiting Somanathapura and Talakadu we headed towards Shivanasamudra to visit Gagana chukki and Bhara Chukki. Raining intermittently proving our hopes to get a bunch of images of Water falls, but not happened. It is a rainy season but complete area of the Kaveri River not received average rain fall during this season, caused little disappointed, at least we got some good snaps of the nature. Catching the beauty of the mountains and Ranganatha swamy temple which is on the way to Bara Chukki accomplished the one day motor bike ride to southern part of Karnataka.

Bangalore to shivanasamudra falls - 135 KM

Bangalore - kanakapura - malavalli - Shivanasamudra falls

places nearby : Somanathapura, Talakadu, MM Hills, Mysore

Bangalore to Kollegala Road

 

Gagana Chukki

shivanasamudra hydro power plant

shivanasamudra hydro power plant

Pump house View point

Bridge at Bara Chukki

Bridge View

Bara Chukki

Wet roads

Bara Chukki

At darga

Ranganatha Swamy Temple

Ranganatha swamy temple inside

Temple inside

Channel on the way to Bara Chukki

kaveri river

Old bridge

Way Back to Bangalore

Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta (GS Betta), Gundlupet Taluk, Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka

After visiting MM Hills, BR Hills, and one small dam Krishnana Katte at yelandur, next morning we traveled to Gundlupete to Visit GS Betta, Lord Sri Krishna vitality provides aspiration to living creatures, before entering to GS Betta every vehicle has to pay the entrance fees and has 1 hour 30 Min of limited time to spent in GS Betta, Road is pathetic to travel, forest guards are roaming every ware to keep an eye on Visitors to avoid crossing the rope lines, there are too many visitors were seen in GS Betta to catch the nature beauty, rainy season provides a perfect atmosphere to match the colors. There are many elephant and deer herd to seen on the way. Fascinating eyes finally moved towards Nanjanagud to catch more presence.

Route Map:
Bangalore - Mysore - Gundlupet - GS Betta - 210 KMs
Chamarajanagar to gundlupet - GS Betta - 53 kms

On the way to Mysore to Ooty road after the Gundlupet you need to travel 18 Kms to reach Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta.
If you are Stayed in chamarajanagar then it is 53 Kms of total distance. you need to travel all the way to Gundlupet, then towards Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta.

Entrance Seen

Different Perspective

Elephant Grazing Land

Perspective

Busy with camera

one more

On the way View Point

Green Route

View Point

Helicopter view

On the way

Temple View

Temple View

Temple View

Temple View

Temple View

Gopalaswamy Temple Arch

 

Landscape

From Temple side

Mysore

Elephant in the hills

Elephant and deer in closeup

Wild Life in GS hills

Visitors

Elephant Trails !

Panorama View

GS Betta

Good Bye :-(

Nanjangud Srikanteshwara Temple

Krishnana Katte (Krishnaiahna Katte reservoir), Yelandur Taluk, Chamarajanagara, Karnataka

It was around 4:00 PM, after visiting the MMhills and BR Hills we headed towards Chamarajanagar via Yelandur to stay. Fortunately on the way we seen a small Dam called Krishnana Katte OR Krishnayyana katte, hoping to have good scenery but we were not disappointed, mountain makes a clear line around Krishnaiahna katte creating a well-balanced Ecosystem, this dam holds a few gallons of water to facilitate rural side of yelandur taluk and the forest animals. People nearby village shared that Elephants are usually seen in a herd. But we were not lucky! For the day to see one of that. Whatever this place is a sudden surprise for us to end the jolly ride day.

Route Map :
This Dam comes between BR Hills - yelandur Raod
After getting down from BR Hills take left diversion towards yelandur, after a few kms you will see this Reservoir on left side of the road.

Krishnana Katte



Krishnana Katte

Krishnana Katte

Krishnana Katte Panorama

Sunset

Ending the day