Muthathi and mekedaatu

It had been a long time since i had been out of bangalore with friends. We (ravi vishu anil and me) planed for a getaway for Sunday, 8th of july. As planned we started off at about 7 in the morn from my place to Muthathi which is about 120 kms from bangalore .

Muthathi is about 33 kms further from Kanakpura, about 90 minutes drive from bangalore. On reaching Kanakpura, move towards Sathnur and from there its just a 30 min drive to muthathi, a small village on the shore of river Cauvery. This was the first time i was on this route and was quite excited to see the new place.

Once we were onto the Kanakpura road, national highway, the bikes were put to top speed. The highway was great and so it was a very smooth ride. After sathnur the environment gets more beautiful, green and silent and the bike noise is all you can hear.

Pic taken enroute to muthathi

 

Reached the place by about 9 and could see that Muthathi was not so crowded place. May be because it does not have much place on the shore of the river for people to stroll or to even just sit and relax. But it was quite peaceful with just the river making all the sound apart from the birds chirping. Though the river seemed shallow the placards could be seen at many places warning not to get into the water due to many whirlpools.

Taken at Muthathi..

After having spent a while at muthathi we moved on to mekedaatu, which was nearby. And that was a more interesting and nice place to chill out. This is a place where you can see the Cauvery, running wide and wild. It is at this place where the Arkavathi river joins cauvery. This place being quite popular had enough crowd.

Once we reached there we decided to move to the other side of the river. For that we had to take a ride on a ‘theppa’ (a small circular, plate shaped row boat) which would be steered by a boat man and believe me his task of rafting dint seem any easy to me even though the river wasn’t flowing in full force. Once we were on the other side of the river we spent a lot of time there. Water was cool and tempting enough for us to get into it.

The return journey was good too. It rained for a while on our way back and getting drenched was refreshing. Though we were all very hungry we had decided to lunch once we reach bangalore. Stopped at Adigas upahaar on kanakpura road and being late we had missed the lunchtime and so just enjoyed a masala dosa and ice cream.

All in all it was a great weekend. Enjoyed the ride, the serenity of nature all the way and the silence peace.

We were all back to my place by about 6 and the Wimbledon finals had just begun. Federer v/s Nadal. And I just relaxed watching the match. The cramps started to pop up later for being on the back seat of the bike for nearly 300 kms, but all i could think of was that it was worth it ..

Looking forward for the next ride now…

~ by Vinay Simha on July 9, 2007.