A Lovely Day Ride

Its been 8 years now that I have moved into MS Palya and seldom I knew that my neighborhood was so beautiful. I had heard a lot about the cycling expedition to Hesarghatta Lake and the nearby GrassLand and also to the Nruthyagrama but never been able to do one, 29th being an holiday on occasion of EID I decided to have a saddle burn.

Its been a perfect EID to me , an early morning Cycle ride , fantastic weather , great music playing on my phone and my standby mobile camera acting as my primary lens helping me take some nice shots.My earlier plan was to leave at 7am in the morning but the lazy bum couldn wake-up and I started the ride as late as 8.30 in the morning , its an 18 odd km ride from my place and the roads are in perfect condition for a cycle ride.

Ride Through The Horticultural lands

After peddling for about 14kms I reached the Hesarghatta Lake , the wast lake was a reservoir built across the Arkavathy River , now its a dry lake and reportedly it was last found full way back in 1994 . More about the lake in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesaraghatta_Lake

Dry Hesarghatta lake

After visiting the lake , I headed towards the grasslands , from the lake its a 5km ride to the grasslands with no signboards , its better to esquire the locals the way to Nruthyagrama and the Hesarghatta Grassland is just 200mts before the nruthyagrama.

In reached the grassland , rested for a while , took a few photographs and also met a few students who had come there to shoot a film.

The Hesarghatta Grassland is a 300acre stretch and is the last left grassland in Bangalore.There were a few proposals from the government to convert this grassland into a state of the art film studio and a Golf Course , but the High Court of Karnataka has halted the construction plans. And its the need of the hour to save this wast grassland.

More Information on this :http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/campaigns/9182-keep-off-the-hesaraghatta-grassland.html

A Small Off Road trial before the grasslands

My Ride Resting @ the grassland

My Ride Resting @ the grassland

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After spending sometime at the Grassland I rode further to Nruthyagrama , though I did not enter the place but found it quite interesting and would for visit the place soon. From Nruthyagrama I headed straight to my home and gave my ass and back a much needed rest.

So with Cycling , photographing , editing , catching up with friends and blogging this was a EID holiday well.
spent , shall be back with more photographs and writing till then be well and god bless.

PS: All photos are taken from Galaxy Note 2