Nandi Hills

I have always been in love with Mountains and their mystic magical powers. Because of this Nandi Hills was on top in my list to visit places around Bangalore. Fortunately after 8 years I got the chance to start off visiting places from my list...

Experience of Nandi Hills at Sunrise…

It was heard that, we should see the place early in the morning before sunrise to see magical clouds unfolding mystic mountains of Nandi Hills.

We planned to leave the resort on Sunday morning at 5:45 am and drive to the hill and reach there by 6:15 am to witness the sunrise. To the surprise at 6:00 Am road to Nandi Hill was packed with vehicle and instead of whistling from cool breeze of hills we were able to hear the hocking from bikes and cars.

It was too much of expectation and demand from a typical tourist destination to provide me with silence and serenity. As soon as we reached to the entrance we realized that we it’s not what we were looking for and we should be ready to be disappointed this time as we are in a long queue to cross the entrance and here also we have to struggle with parking issue as we do in the city.

Parking Area at the Top of the Hill..

Crowd waiting to see the sunrise, climbing the wall and posing for a picture.

At this point of time I asked myself that why dint I know it before. The only reason could think of is that of fascinating stories of Nandi Hills and its view which I heard from the people who have been there. But for the person like me it was a bad surprise...

Those fascinating stories seemed to be unrealistic

as there was an untold hidden reality behind it.

Echo of the wind blowing across the hills was lost in the shouting and screaming of the crowd while they were posing for the pictures. The magical clouds were unfolding the mountains but the magic was lost behind the wall of crowd and there was a small window to witness the magic.

Wall of crowd, busy making a small window for those who are left behind,

to witness the magic of could and Mountains.

Experience of Nandi Hills at Sunset…

With few friends we started on Saturday morning from Bangalore and reached to the resort located on the base of Nandi Hills. Driving away from the hustling bustling of the city had filled me with hope that now I would be experiencing the serenity and mystical powers of the mountains.

We reached resort, had lunch and relaxed for some time. Around 4 pm we started to Nandi Hills, it was a beautiful driveway with deadly yet thrilling curves. I was driving on such a road for the first time and that made me even more excited and thrilled.

We reached on the first entrance of Nandi Hills. After reaching on top I was very much disappointed as the road here was in such a bad state that I felt that no one cares if accident happens or even if anyone dies while driving on these roads crafted with pot holes and huge stones.

Anyways very soon this feeling of disappointment faded away as we reached to the second entrance with the view of mystical beauty of the mountains from the top of the hill. We parked the car, clicked some pictures. 

Thinking that we might capture this mystic beauty in a 4x6 frame

I guess A foolish thought...

Once we realized that the magic of these mountains can’t be captured, we started experiencing the cool breeze blowing from the mountains carrying its fragrance and allowed ourselves to be mesmerized by its mystic beauty. 

At that moment, nature was at its best of creativity and its beauty was marvelous.

It was the time of sunset and sky as filled up with all shades of red as if rejoicing and celebrating the end of day. Slowly slowly Sun was going below the horizon and hiding behind the red sky.After the soul enriching experience we set off for the walk.

A day ending

We heard the whistle while walking around the hill; security guard was warning everyone to leave the hill area as it was closing time. We drove back to the resort where we stayed with wonderful scenic memories of Nandi Hills.