Tour Diaries: Cauvery Fishing Camp, Bheemeshwari

Date: 19th Dec 2009
Time: 7:30 a.m.

After the first successful bike trip (at least riding the bike to waterfalls was fun as mentioned in my last blog, leave the rest), Janit and I decided for our next location on bike. We googled many places which we can cover in a day. Going close to nature has been an on going phenomenon off late. We chose Cauvery Fishing Camp, Bheemeshwari near the banks of river Cauvery this time. It is primarily known for Mahaseer - the largest sporting fish known to man. This is a setup maintained by Jungle Lodges but more on that later but let me tell you that "it is unnecessarily expensive".

Kanakpura Road is the exit out of the city. The route for us was Bannerghatta Road -> J.P. Nagar (some phases which to be crossed which I don't recall) -> Kanakpura Road -> Kanakpura -> Sathnur -> Take a left towards Muthati -> Cauvery Fishing Camp. The distance is around 110 kms.


So I picked Janit from his home at 7:30 a.m. I had got an helmet for him from home just to be on the safer side but he chose not to wear it. Sometimes its all about style and tashan as we all call it ;)

The road till Kanakpura is awesome. Big wide NH-209 where you can easily touch 100 kmph. Although I did not find much of the green pastures but it was still worth halting at places to click pictures whereever we got a chance.

We also noticed lot of cyclists on the highway (don't know where they were heading to but we captured that as well)

After first halt was at a tea shop after crossing Kanakpura. The tea offered was really sweet (not to my taste)    I took out my tiffin box containing Veg Pulao and Moong Dal ( I owe this to my sister who made it for us which served as breakfast and lunch)

Janit decided to ride from here till the fishing camp. The travel from Sathnur to Muthati brings you closer to the nature, with a narrow curvy road cutting the mountain and at times too steep (downhill/uphill) but we truly enjoyed it.

Now the funny part, after a few kms, we saw the road being blocked by a herd of cows (out for a kittie :P) and Janit's reaction to that was worth listening to. He got scared to cross them and decided to wait till the ladies go out of the way. Being not the one to lose on time like this, I decided to scream out on them (I wish I could do that in real life :P) to clear the way.

 Just imagine, if we would have been stuck in the middle of such a huge bunch and the bike doesn't start.  This very thought made us laugh later (after we crossed the hurdle). These cows had really sharp horns  which can cause serious damage... you know what I mean, right? :)

We started seeing the Cauvery river after a while and decided to halt. Being in nature is so peaceful, breathing clean and fresh oxygen on the forest roads is surely a great relief to our souls.

We finally reached the camp and saw the nets. That was it. We took a decision to not invest Rs 1000 per person in Jungle Lodge rather relax on the nets and pass time.

It was time to eat again and my box was out again. That was our lunch. We thought of fishing as well but it was for Rs. 1750 per person ... so.... never mind!!!!  I guess we wanted to stick to our plans to save money and make the trip as cheap as possible :) The readers might also be thinking something like this "Tum kya itni door sone ke liye gaye thhe?" (I am a good mind reader or rather I know this is what the readers can expect from me :P)

The river is so calm and whole rocky look and feel was awe inspiring. Some photo shoot happened there as well.

At around 3 p.m., we decided to head back to Bangalore, stopped at Muthati - this name means Nose Ring in Kannada and gets its name from Ramayan. When Ram and Sita were in exile, Sita accidently dropped her nose ring at this place and Hanuman found it and gave it to Sita (too much for me :P) There is a Hanuman Temple at Muthati at that very location now. We reached Bangalore by 4:30 p.m.

Must Do's: Sleeping on the nets and forget the rest of the world

Beware  Of: Monkeys around the place. They won't do anything to you till you do something to them :P

Useless Advice: 1. Make a booking with Jungle Lodges and pay 1000 bucks.

                            2. Touch the speed limit of 100 kmph on NH-209 highway

                            3. Learn how to climb the net and not fall down (I fell twice before finally making it :P )