Our final day of sight seeing in this trip was to cover the spiritual places of Dharmasthala & Kukke Subramanya. From our home stay, Dharmasthala is 80 kms away and we were expected to drive for around 2 hours. We were told that the drive would be through ghat area, With this information we set out through the Sakleshpur route. After Sakleshpur, starts the highway which has been caved through ghat and forest, navigating through numerous curves along. Few minutes into the highway only we realized what we had signed up for. The ghat road was traversed by numerous truck, each following its own speed limit, every 100 metres had a curve and on top of it the roas was also undergoing maintenance at places. It was one odd experience driving through this road, something that we have never come across in our travel these years. The last leg of the drive is shifting from highway to forest area. All vehicles in the path are designed to Dharmasthala temple only. Wondering how one got the temp
The next day was the Chikmagaluru day. We had drove to this place along with the home stay's Sunil and his kids. We drove past Belur again towards Chikmagaluru for some 70 kms, it took around 1 hr, 45 mins to reach there. Our first stop started at the temple. After worshipping here we headed to the other places in Chikmagaluru. Sunil took over and drove us to sight seeing. Mullayanagiri was next spot. its a peak about 2000 kms above sea level. After parking the car, from some 4-5 kms below the peak, we had to climb up 540 odd steps to reach the Shiva temple right at the peak. Being the holiday season, it became a nightmare getting a spot for parking. Had to do it on the hill and started climbing. It was one hell of a task to climb up. The wind was making the task even more difficult. Once you reach the peak, one can feel the serene beauty of the hill. Part of western ghat this is a nature blessed abundant beauty. After removing the foot wears we have to go up another few steps to