Ride to Nandi hills

I had been wanting to go on a ride to Nandi hills on my bike for sometime now. This last weekend I decided I am going no matter what. I called a lot of people and after a series of refusals I called up my close friend and cribbed that I really wanted to go! He agreed with doubts about the time. I wanted to leave by 7 and he was not sure if the hills would be that great at 9. So after convincing my mom, we planned to leave at 4.30 in the morning instead.

On Sunday, I got up at 4, got ready really fast and met up with him at 4.45. Man, talk about craziness. It’s amazing to ride at this hour in the city but once we reached the highway, the ride got slow with my headlights not being powerful enough. We reached the foot hills at around 6 and started the climb up. The upper part of the hills was mist covered and as we rode up, it soon became completely foggy and misty and the ride got better! It was super cool, awesome. After taking some snaps on my mobile camera, we reached the top by 7.

We roamed around the place watching the neighboring misty hill tops and the landscape down below, went into coffee plantations and hidden trails hardly taken. We were having a lovely time just the two of us, away from the crowed parts. Soon the sun stared to clear the mist and the hill turned plain and simple. We decided to head back at about 9 and were back home at 11 in the morning. Despite the day light, the road had this eerie feeling that prevented me from zooming back home so I did a slow 60 kmph ride back with a feeling of achievement, after so long a wait.