Shimoga Trip

For this new Year we went to Shimoga which was recommended by many of my friends...

Shimoga is famous for 'Jog Falls' that is the highest waterfalls of India.
First day we landed there we went to see TungaBhadra dam followed by boating ....

The dam is really very big and there is some construction going on with new passage with lights on both sides.Once that completes it will be a sight to see in night..On our way back we found one place which had statues of shiva,hanuman ,gandhiji ,horse and some other ..it was already dark by the time we reach there so we could not actually figure out what the place was..but the statues were beautiful ..

2nd day we first went to Tiger safari...While we were waiting for the van , Akki had a blast running here and there and we had a hard time controlling him.

The safari was good..we saw tigers,lions,deers,blackbucks....Akki saw one tiger and lots and lots of deers....as we were the only Hindi speaking people in the group the driver not only explained us everything specially in Hindi but once the tiger part ended and we were in the deer zone he asked Puneet to stand in the door itself to click snaps.Seeing his papa go away Akki started crying so then driver coxed me to give Akki with his papa ..so they both had a nice view from the door...

Next stop was the famous Jog falls which is about 100 kms from Shimoga....though it was out of season and much water was not there but still we could imagine what it would be like in its full force ..there are 2 entires of Jog falls one where you can see jog falls falling with its four different streams while from the other side you can watch its ferocity ..

In between Shimoga and Jog there is a place called Sagar which has lots of ancient temples ...we managed to see 2 of them.One of the most famous there is Ikkeri. Me and Akki got scolding there as Akki was always running away from me and standing on one pious spot after other and so we got nice scolding from the caretaker there ..

Day 3 was our return day...and we planned to explore Shimoga before heading back..What was really strange in our trip was that even though there are places to see in Shimoga itself..if you ask the locals about the places to see they will just tell you about Jog Falls..so take all the printouts(which we could not do in this trip) of the places you want to cover..Anyway thanks to google we came to know that Shimoga has India's second largest church and with lots of efforts and wrong directions we could still reach there ...

In Shimoga there are lots of beautiful temple we saw one or two enroute our return journey and thus ended our journey !!

P.S :All the wrong dates are because our gadget freak had enabled the dates from somewhere and we did not have the time to see how to disable that.