Bekal Fort Ride..

When: 6^th and 7^th Aug 2016

Who: Me, Minaj, Amar Mia, Lokesh SP

Where: Bekal Fort and Beach!! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekal_Fort)

Amar and Me were planning for long ride quite a some time.. and we decided to take a break and go towards nearest beach and relax.. We called SP and Minaj they also agreed for this..

As it was monsoon season and its raining heavily, we decided to visit Dechthlon store and buy some rain coats.. we all met there and played TT, then bought Rain jackets and rain covers for bags.. I bought water proof pouch for my mobile.. lessons learn from previous mistake!!

It was already late for dinner and we visited some hotel in Mandi mohalla and had nice Parota, biryani and Kalmi.. then our favorite Badam lassi!!

We went home and packet all our things for trip, we carried only minimal items as there was no place for keeping our luggage for bikes..

Day-1:

We woke up around 4:30 and called every one and met at SP’s home, we left Mysore around 5:30 AM!!

The route which we took was

Mysore–>Kushalnagar–>Madikeri–>Sulia–>Bekal Fort

We stopped in Kushalnagar for T and decided to visit Chiklihole dam near by.. its on the way to Dubare elephant camp, we need to take deviation towards right and travel around 5 KM, then you will reach this dam, its very beautiful dam, you can ride on top of the dam there was no security.. This dam will be good when there is overflow of water.. but unluckly when we visited there was not much water..

20160806_073930 — Me with Full Riding gears except for Riding Boots..! Cramster Y2K jacket, RE riding trousers

We were feeling hungry and left that dam soon… we reached Madikeri for breakfast..

We had awesome break fast in Madikeri hotel called Hotel Green land, which is located in madikeri-Mangalore highway..its good place for Non veg lovers..

https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Hotel+Green+Land/@12.4176832,75.7406586,19.25z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x0:0x9710e310e8bcd076!2sStay+Simple+Greenline+Resort!8m2!3d12.413172!4d75.725458!3m4!1s0x0:0xf6250fa0dc6752af!8m2!3d12.417556!4d75.7412314

It started raining heavily and we were all suited in rain gears.. on the way we stopped for some photos..

20160806_103424 — SP and Minaj, Decathlon dudes!!

We also stopped in one small water falls on the way…

It was raining all the way but was nice ride as we were all prepared.. On the way we help some guys to get into Bus by stopping it!! poor fellows were chasing bus in Auto!! we saw there were struggling to stop the bus.. so we overtook that bus ask singled him to stop.. happy that we could do some help…

while riding we saw one nice hanging bridge constructed over river.. we decided to pay a visit..

actually this hanging bridge connects two villages to main road and this is the only only commuting way for them.. we can ride on this bridge also.. but we don’t want to take risk in unknown place..

We reached Sullia and stopped for Tea break.. had some snacks which we dont know the name.. yeah we like to explore local cuisines..

We headed towards Kasaragod..before Kasargod we have deviation to Bekal fort, guess its Cherkala town.., we stopped there and asked about any good hotels..

We had lunch in Hotel Volga.. we met couple of riders who were traveling from Mangalore to Kochi..

After that lunch we headed stright to Bekal Fort.. We reached there around 3:30 PM, and every one wanted to visit Fort then only.. but It was very difficult for me to walk with all those riding gears.. I wanted to book one hotel and get rid of all the gears.. so we asked one tea shop about any good hotels.. he suggested one hotel which is very near to Bekal fort.. We search that hotel and took that hotel..it is MUH Beach Resort which is next to Bekal Fort, we need to take road below the flyover to reach this hotel..My review is this is good hotel for bachelors.. not so good and suitable for families..

They charged around 2000 for 4 people.. rooms were Ok but best part is.. it had AC!!

We all checked in to hotel and got freshen up.. then we left to see Fort since closing time is 5:30 PM..

Entrance Fees was around 30 Rs, we were glad that we went to see at evening as weather was nice.. not sunny.. I still remember when we visited this fort with all excel soft friends around 10 years back..!! We had some nice photo session on Fort like Dil Chahta Hai style..

We walked to the other end of Fort near Shore and climbed on top of Fort.. It was very chilling weather.. Best time to visit

There was one guy who was announcing that, Fort Gate will be closed by 5:30 pm sharp and he wont open again.. So we all go inside… But still there were people outside and he closed the gates.. dont know how they will come out..

Then we came out and reached Bekal Beach park to watch Sunset.. But due to cloudy weather we couldn’t get chance to see Sun set..

Then we decided to Buy Snacks, Food for Party.. We went to Bekal Junction and bought food, and came back to room for Party….I had got Bluetooth speaker and played Party songs loud..

We partied and had nice dinner.. we wanted to hit beach at night and relax.. but it started raining heavily.. so we dropped the plan..

As usual SP was busy in Calls and Chat with Unknown !!!

Day-2:

I woke up early around 4:30 in Shock!! I was sleeping in seperate room, I had one blanket with me when I slept.. but around 4:30 when I wanted to use that blanket.. Shockingly it was NOT there.. so many thoughts came in mind that some devil would have come and took it because all were sleeping in separate room.. after this shock I did not get sleep only.. so I went and woke up everyone.. then came to know that Amar Mia took my Blanket because someone took his blanket!! 🙂

Our room was very near to beach and we decided to go there and play in beach..

As soon as we entered the beach, we were welcomed by Land mines.. !! (Shit!!) Local there dont have any sence and they shit in the sea shore only.. it was very unplesent so we decided to walk further and not to get in to water…

We walked in beach for long distance and found one good place where beach was clean.. So I decided to jump into water.. others were not ready… I was having fun.. then slowley Amar.. then Minaz.. Then finally SP came into water.. We had nice time where waves were hitting our back.. some times waves were more than 10 feet!!

after this we came back to room and one by one all started to have fresh water bath and get ready with packing..

Around 9:30 AM we checked out from hotel and went to bekal junction for having breakfast..

We had nice Dosa, Parota chicken…then we planned route back to Mysore.. We decided to take different route than we came… so decided to go through Talacavery ..