Avalabetta Hill Top-Karnataka

               

                 Bengaluru, a city flooded with traffic jam every nook and corner. With weekends on board,  I keep hunting for my next unexplored destination. I personally love to go to a much peaceful place, away from gadgets,  where I can experience some fresh air touching my face, some sweet chirps of bird putting a smile on my face, where i can just keep pressing the acceleration without any hop on and off of clutch in traffic signals.

With scorching summers of Bengaluru, most of places road trip destination around bangalore is a bit dry till monsoon can revive it.  So, was the plan to avalabetta, which is pretty close and can be planned for a one day trip. 

Avalabetta known for the scary hilltop view is around 110 km from south of Bangalore. It takes comfortably about 3 hours drive through NH 44. I would highly recommend to start early, so that you would not miss the sunrise. We missed the sunrise by 30 minutes.

NH 44 to Avalabetta 

Sun rise @ 5.58 am

You can easily google out the destination. We took a diversion from peserandra and its about 18 Km drive from there.  If you wanna really relax, just open down your windows feel the fresh air and lush green lands outside. The road is covered with colorful gulmohar trees, medicated smell of eucalyptus, and cooling tamarind, neem trees, sprouting along side of the road.  We halted here and there in few farms, spoke to localities and uprooted some seasonal fresh vegetables for home. You can pay them some decent money and they will be very happy. 

Fresh carrot uprooted by localities 

Carrot farm

Some grape yard on the way

Cauliflower farm

My favorite cauliflower

A pic together with cauliflowers

Driving down further, we reached the spot by around quarter past seven. you have a good parking place for car and bikes. The panoramic view around is bit dry as it is summer time, but i have heard post monsoon the place is very green.

I would, recommend to take good amount of water bottles, small packed breakfast or snacks as there are no shops available in the base on the hill. You can find localities selling water bottles and some tender coconuts. You need to walk from the base to the top of the hills. You can reach the hill top within 30 mins of medium level climbing. Ensure that you carry some food and enough water. 

Avalabetta hill top

Avalabetta Hill top, BEHIND BAR !!!:P

There is a narasimhar temple in the top, looked to be built under the cave of the mountain, which eventually is renovated with cemented koburam. After a short dharshanam, we headed towards the scary point, avalabetta hill top. Unfortunately due to some security reasons, the hilltop is closed a month back. So if any one wants to visit to take some crazy picture on the hilltop, please do not go, as you will return disappointed as there is no way you can get there. There is police guard to ensure that no one climbs of the bars.

Here we go !

Smaller version, just to compensate the visit

so, there are some view points here and there to click some picture. There is giant tamarind tree near to the temple, where you can lie down and sleep for hours except that you would feel hungry.  No air conditioner can replace that cool breeze beneath the tree. It is something, one should feel and cant be expressed in words.

After spending some good time, we started back revisiting few farms and back to home.  

If you have any doubts, post in the below comments. I would be to happy to help if i can :)