Some kind of restlessness and urge for adventure into the wild made Rajesh Naik and me to plan a trek to an unknown destination a totally wild and new place in Uttarakannada district as per his plans we first wanted to visit this unknown waterfall Nagaramudi.
We finally started after a long bus journey we had our breakfast in a local Konkani village hotel, that small hotel was almost covered by this hotel's very fat but very active hotel owner and his staff who were serving very delicious food this gave us strength to cover our long journey on foot.
We followed the directions which the hotel owner gave us and started on NH17 after a few minute’s walk we entered a village road and like it started it just ended near a mountain, we were a little confused we started back and took another cross road this leads us to the upper part of the fall.
This is a very unique fall though it is very small falling from just 10ft height it creates a big cave I had never seen such a cave like this before if we have to stand under the waterfall we need to swim inside this cave till bottom of this waterfall to reach bottom of the waterfalls.
Though I wanted to try it out I was little hesitant recalling the anaconda movie I swam back I did try many times but finally decided to come back, we spent a long time and on our way back we went to a calm beautiful beach we got to see a spectacular sunset finally a complete adventure in an unknown unexplored wilderness......
Laynkajje Waterfall was one of the best family trips by Mangalore YHA. Mr.Dinesh Holla organized this one day program. We were all together nearly 30 people, we started our journey from Mangalore in our unit Van on a pleasant morning.
We reached last house in Lynkajje village parked our van near last house & started to walk. As usual Holla sir takes the lead for our team; we walk for nearly 30 minutes pleasant walk & reached Lynkajje second step.
Everyone took bath helping each other on slippery rocks. Lynkajje is a small 2 steps waterfalls with a small distance between each step .On our return we visited 1st step .Our elder teammates also took bath in first step. I also joined them. So one more memorable trip I had in a different style adding to my book of adventures........
Arakere is a small village in BanavaraHobli. There are two temples namely Channakeshavaand Ramaswara, here which are worth seing. The former is a Trikutachala or three celled temple. The Rameswara temple has an excellently carves image of Vishnu, which is a fine piece of artwork that cannot be missed.
The image of Sun is also piece of master craftsmanship which is extensively carved and richly ornamented. It is curious to note that the tower of this temple is built of granite in receding sonar’s, ending in a Kalasha, resenling in some respects towers of Pallava architecture.
Wall Panels at Arakere temples
Mavutanahalli is a small village in Hasan district; Mahalingeswara Temple is a monumental ruined temple during the Hoysala period. Pooja activities still going on by local villagers, Local villagers still having little faith temple will renovate soon.
