Nandi Hills trip

Nandi Hills was one of the shorter trips which i had. Shorter, in terms of distance and in terms of budget. It's around 60-70 kms north of Bangalore.

We were a group of 5. As is in the case with a few other trips, our office in MG road was the common meeting point. 4:00 am was supposed to be the time when all of them converge at MG road, but it was delayed due to some usual obstacles which an average youngster face early in the morning, like waking up, getting ready and so on. At 4:30 four of us reached in 3 bikes. We departed to Mekri circle to pick up the 5th guy. That took an ample lot of time again. and it was almost 5:30 we started from airport road after mekri circle.

Our plan was to witness sunrise from top of nandi hills, but time was too late. We somehow saw the sunrise somewhere on the way at NH-7. We reached the top of Nandi Hills around 7:30 after a lot of photography session on the way. Spent about 2 hours there and then returned to Bangalore.

About the place and how to reach :
From Bangalore, easy way to reach nandi hills is to get into devanahalli which is at the outskirts of Bangalore(around 40kms from MG road) and follow the road(NH-7) to chikballapura. Watch out for a road on your left side which comes after not more than 10kms from devanahalli. There will be a board showing Nandi Hills is 22kms left. That is almost not visible from the highway but be vigilant to notice all roads going left and the presence of such a board. You have to take this road. We stopped here for a while, for a bit of photography. The sunrise we saw, as i have mentioned previously, was from this place. The sunrise pic is on the left. It was too amazing.

Then carry on through the diversion. That is actually SH-104. Drive slowly and enjoy the beauty of nature on both sides of the road and maybe some more snapshots.
If you are a fast driver, you can enjoy even more cos most of the places this road is very straight with almost no traffic. After traveling around 15Kms you'll reach a junction splitting the road into two. Take the left and continue. Now you'll slowly start climbing the hill. Mercury will start to fall. If it's your lucky day you'll have heavy mist which will make it very scenic.


Take pics on the way till you reach the top. You have parking facility at the top. Now take tickets and enter inside the arc, which is the entry to the main place.

Start exploring the place as much as you can. Cos there are lot of detours where you'll be tempted to take both of them. Even I'm not sure whether I've covered all the places, cos its very confusing. But it was so nice there with lot of mist. Some places were so alluring with wet greenery. Probably these pics can give you a fair idea.


The bottom view is also amazing, but for that you'll have to wait a little bit, till the sun attains some power and erase away the mist.


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Suggestions :
- Start early so that you reach there around sunrise. Cos i dont think this place is worth watching any other time of the day.
- Bike/car is better suited.
- Most probably you'll finish the trip within 10:00am. In case you want to get engaged the whole day, pls plan some other places along with this.
- While returning, try a different route to reach back to NH-7. Use google maps and explore a new route.