The Monsoon Journey

Its always been never ending fascination towards travelling over to Malnad and western ghats regions of karnataka. Its june now and have waited for arrival of monsoon in this year.

 This time it was a family trip and we were travelling for 4 days covering unseen places in different climate conditions

Route Map

 Mysore - Hassan - Mudigere - Charmadi Ghat - Dharmasthala - Moodbidri - Karkala - Agumbe - Sringeri - Balehonnur - Chickmagaluru - Belur - Mysore



Pulled our car near mudigere, cold wind, wet roads and we had few minutes break






As we move further, the rain started continued and continued and we enjoyed travelling in rain



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