Day ride to Kabini Reservoir (3May2012)

            The Kabini, also called Kabani and Kapila, is a river of southern India. It originates from Wayanad District of Kerala state and flows eastward to join the Kaveri River at Tirumakudalu Narasipura in Karnataka. Kabini is one of the most popular wildlife destinations because of its easy accessibility, lush green landscape surrounding a large picturesque lake, and fantastic sightings of large herds of elephants. Kabini is definitely one of the must see places.

 

Riders : Me on my Thunderbird, Sena, Jeevan and Prakash on their Bullet Electra

Route : Bangalore - Mysore - HD Kote - Kabini Reservoir

Inputs on Road : Roads are really good all the way to Kabini from Bangalore.

        This was a comeback ride for me since there was a huge gap with no rides for almost a year due to hectic work schedules. Prakash had come to Bangalore from Mumbai and he said why not we make a day ride before he goes back to Mumbai. Infact I was longing for a ride and when he pitched this Idea, I immediately said yes and also I wanted to have some Kms on my bike.

     Myself and Prakash met in Gloria Jeans Cofee shop in Indranagar, We called up Sena and jeevan to inform about the ride and they agreed immediately. We decided to gather at Townhall, Bangalore by 6.00AM and accordingly we all met at 6.00AM. Immediately we started riding towards Mysore road and on the way my Meter cable got cut and it was hanging. I happened to get it rectified and we gave a first break at Kamak Lokaruchi for Breakfast. Since Neer Dosa was one of the hot favourites here, we all had a good amount of Dosa's and continued riding further.

    Almost when we reached Mysore, Prakash Bike gave problems and ignition was not turning on. Somehow we jump started the battery and took to a mechanic in Mysore to get it rectified. We spent almost 1 hour in Mechanic shop to get the bike rectified and then we continued the ride further and reached Kabini Reservoir by around 1.00PM.

Me on the way to HD Kote

    Kabini Reservoir is just like any other dam with good water body. We took the bikes near the water and relaxed there for a while, it would have been too good provided if the weather was cloudy. If we need to get accommodation we need to go further around 23 kms for Jungle lodges.

 Sena, Jeevan and Me

Me, Sena and Prakash 

 

Since it was almost 3Pm and we were feeling hungry, there was nothing to eat there. So we rode back to HD kote and had a good lunch in a small hotel near Bustand. 

Then we decided to ride continuously to Bangalore and we reached Bangalore by 9.00PM.

There is nothing great in this ride and it was more of Stress buster and comeback ride.