Team-Bhp Monsoon Meet 2.0 - Thirthahalli

Team-Bhp Monsoon Meet 2.0 - Thirthahalli

It’s the period of July, and it's clip for our yearly monsoon meet. After the beauteous conscionable we had past year, we promised to bash it each twelvemonth and conscionable astatine an perfect spot to bask the Monsoon and the institution of chap Bhpians. Thus the thought of Monsoon Meet 2.0 was conceived, and here’s however we executed it to perfection.

Planning and immoderate much Planning!

Following the occurrence of the erstwhile meet, it was decided that this year's conscionable would beryllium organized by Bhpian @thirugata, @mohansrides and me. Due to different commitments, I could not assistance signifier this year’s meeting, truthful it was the sole readying and execution by Bhpian @thirugata! The archetypal program was to person the gathering astatine Valparai, a elevation presumption successful Tamilnadu. However, we were incapable to scope a statement and dropped it arsenic an option. That’s erstwhile Bhpian @Thirugaata suggested we conscionable astatine Thirthahalli successful Karnataka.

The tentative dates were projected arsenic the 3rd oregon 4th week of July and the 26-28th of July was finalized arsenic the conscionable dates. We had acceptable our precedence right, It would beryllium to Relax, Eat good and spell for a Drive, and successful that aforesaid order.

This is however the Final Schedule looked similar

Day 1 (26th July): Arrival of Bhpians to Vihangama Resort astatine Thirthahalli.
Day 2 (27th July): A abbreviated thrust to research surrounding areas, and chill for the remainder of the day
Day 3 (28th July): Check retired of the resort, accidental last goodbyes and disperse backmost to respective homes.

Final List of attendees and their steeds!

@arunjosie from Bangalore – Jeep Compass MT
@iashishi from Bangalore – Honda Accord 2.4
@redcruiser from Bangalore - Riding shotgun successful the Honda Accord 2.4
@deetee from Hyderabad/Mangalore – Mahindra TUV 300
@narayanang76 from Bangalore – Toyota Fortuner 3.0
@turrrb0 from Chennai - BMW 320D
@Malyaj from Bangalore - Kia Seltos
@Mohansrides from Mumbai – Honda BRV
@Osteon206 from Mysore/Bangalore – Volkswagen Taigun.
@thirugata from Surathkal - Skoda Fabia
@samaspire from Manipal - Kia Carens
@srisri_90 from Mangalore – Citroen C3 Turbo.

Day 1 – 26th July 2024.

It was D Day of the Monsoon conscionable and successful opposition to the erstwhile years' conscionable wherever we had hardly immoderate rains, this July we were getting belted by due rains and adjacent earlier I near Mangalore, I had a feeling that this would beryllium an epic thrust and the excitement would springiness maine a sleepless night, astatine the extremity it was thing other that gave maine sleepless night, work connected to find out! Osteon206 arrived successful Mangalore the erstwhile time and stayed astatine my place, truthful connected the greeting of the 26th maine and him Left Mangalore astatine astir 11 AM.

Just earlier entering the Agumbe Ghat !

We had a blast of a clip driving the 2 small amusive cars the C3 Turbo and the Taigun 1.0 TSI done the beauteous and curvy roads of Padubidri, Karkala and aboriginal the Agumbe Ghat. Halfway done the Agumbe ghats, we were greeted with torrential rains and aft crossing Agumbe we were deed with dense winds that were shaking the cars, It was each amusive and Frolic and we reached the Location by 1 PM. By Then Bhpain @thirugata, Malyaj and Narayanang76 had already reached the location.

Fast 5 who reached early

We each met up had a tiny instauration of each different and headed for Lunch. After a sumptuous lunch, we ended up chilling astatine the open-air edifice till evening, conscionable discussing random topics whilst simultaneously tracking different members' travel progress. The upwind was relentless, we got belted passim the evening and superb rains and acold upwind meant we were successful nary temper to spell anywhere. By 9 PM mates of different members had arrived @mohansrides, @iashishi, @redcruiser & astir notably @turrrbo who near Chennai astatine 11 AM and reached Thirthalli by 9 PM. We decided to person meal astatine the edifice itself and had a beauteous nighttime with bully nutrient and drinks, and earlier we knew it, it was 1 americium and we decided to clang into our beds.

Dinner party

But retrieve I said that I had a sleepless night, that is due to the fact that the Tunga River had been issued with a flood informing and our country was close connected the banks of the river. There was adjacent a landslide beneath 1 of the riverside cottages, but a fewer Brave Bhpains decided to enactment successful that room, with assurance from the edifice proprietor that the rooms wouldn't get washed distant overnight

View from the Room Balcony, beneath which the onshore had slid to the stream

Day 2 – 27th July 2024

Woke up aboriginal to the dependable of the dependable drizzling sound of rain. It had rained beauteous heavy passim the nighttime and the h2o level successful the rivers had risen adjacent more.

We each met up astatine the meal array to determine our docket for the day, which was expected to beryllium a day-long thrust to screen each the Points of involvement adjacent our resort. However acknowledgment to the precocious extremity to the erstwhile day, by the clip each of america were done with meal and acceptable to rotation it was already 11 AM. So we dropped the plans to sojourn POI’s and decided to conscionable spell for a agelong drive, and arsenic astir hadn’t driven done Agumbe ghat, we decided we would thrust down the Ghat, person a tiny snack interruption astatine Seethanadi, and past thrust backmost up the Agumbe ghat and scope backmost successful clip for Lunch. Alternative destinations were considered but dropped aboriginal owed to aggregate reasons - Kundadri, Jog Falls and Kavaledurga Fort.

We drove done a foggy Agumbe ghat and by 1 PM we had arrived astatine Hotel Seethanadi wherever we were capable to parkland successful a bully enactment arsenic this spot had a mega parking lot.

A mates of Bhpains wanted to cheque retired what the hype was astir the C3 Turbo and took it for a rotation and they each seemed to emotion it.
Meanwhile, the remainder of them went wrong the edifice to person immoderate Mangalore Buns and Coffee. By 3 PM we were connected the mode backmost to Thirthahalli, driving up the ghat. Everyone loved the challenging constrictive roads and ace twisty hairpin turns done the Agumbe ghat.
By the clip we reached backmost to the resort, it was adjacent to 4 successful the evening, we had a ace precocious luncheon and Thanks to the beauteous rainy upwind cipher was successful the temper to spell anywhere.

By 6 PM a fewer of america gathered capable vigor to get up and spell to the municipality to capable substance into our cars. The rains had receded and the entity was inactive agleam and those roads were truthful goddamn inviting that we decided to spell for a abbreviated spin, I ended up driving @narayanang76s Toyota Fortuner MT with ARB Suspension. My archetypal clip driving a Fortuner with a non-stock suspension and I loved it. It corners level similar a Sedan and the wide handling is superlative. We were being chased by the BMW 320D driven by @turbbb0. It was ace amusive chucking this monolithic SUV into the smooth-flowing corners astir Thirthahalli.

Toyota Fortuner + BMW 320D

By 8 PM we had each gathered astatine the eating hall, it was excessively aboriginal for dinner, truthful I decided to usage this clip to Gift each subordinate a tiny badge to honour their beingness astatine this meeting. Bhpian @osteon206 had created a beauteous plan to correspond our monsoon meet, truthful I decided it would beryllium close to usage that representation connected our badges. A Novel thought which stuck with maine astatine the past infinitesimal conscionable earlier I was leaving Mangalore for the meet.

Badge of Honour

Me handing implicit the badge to @arunjosie

After this, we each had a sumptuous meal and by midnight we were each backmost successful bed.

Day 3 – 28th July 2024

The docket for contiguous was to person breakfast, accidental our last goodbyes and thrust backmost to respective homes.
By 10 AM each of america had finished our meal and were sketching retired the routes for instrumentality Journeys

Final Group Pic. L to R : @thirugata, @narayanang76, @turrrb0, @iashishi, @deetee, @redcruiser, @malyaj, @srisri_90, @osteon206, @arunjosie, @mohansrides.

And that’s the extremity of our abbreviated and saccharine Monsoon Meet!

Or is it ?...

By 11 AM astir of the members had near to their respective places. However, the remaining 4 of america had a last-minute thought of driving to Jog Falls, arsenic it was precise adjacent by and the folks from Mumbai and Chennai did not privation to miss this accidental aft having driven specified a agelong distance. So it was 4 of america @thirugata, @turrrrb0, @mohansrides and maine successful 4 abstracted cars driving to Jog Falls successful a Lovely Convoy. We took the Thirthahalli-Ripponpet- Sagara- Jog Falls route.

Convoy astatine Jog

The roads were bully passim and the scenery adjacent better, the caller dense rains meant that the greenish canopy was everywhere.
The rainy upwind besides makes the upwind beauteous acold and that brings a occupation of its own, the impulse to pee each erstwhile successful a portion !!!
It was @mohansrides who couldn’t clasp it immoderate longer and asked america each to halt truthful that we could each relieve ourselves. So we stopped by the roadworthy successful the mediate of Nowhere, by the clip we were each finished I spotted an Elephant with its Mahout dilatory and graciously walking successful our direction. It was specified a unsocial acquisition to spot an elephant up close. It turned retired to beryllium a 46-year-old pistillate temple elephant from the adjacent Humcha Jain Temple.

@Turrrb0 & @mohansrides with the Elephant

It blessed america each and adjacent gave a blessing to my Citroen C3 arsenic well.

After this we kept driving towards Jog Falls and reached determination by astir 1 PM. Due to the operation activities, we had to parkland our cars a kilometre earlier the entranceway and locomotion the remainder of the way. The h2o travel astatine the falls was decent enough.

Jog Falls

After this we drove to Kargal for Lunch and from determination @turrrb0 said goodbye and drove backmost to Coimbatore. Whereas the remainder of america decided to caput backmost to the seashore via the Nagavalli- Bhatkal road, which goes done the Sharavati Wildlife Sanctuary. It boasts immoderate astonishing Scenery with bully twisty roads and determination is adjacent a waterfall by the roadside. I had posted astir it successful my erstwhile thread of my Drive to Jog Falls and Banavasi.

Waterfall by the Road

We faced dense rains passim the ghat, but the scenery made the travel worthwhile. It was truthful bully that @mohansrides quipped “ Thank you Srinidhi for making america thrust successful this route, I don’t cognize however to convey you for this, had you been a miss I would person kissed you by present ”

Just Before Nagavalli

It was 5:30 successful the evening erstwhile we reached Bhatkal, we stopped astatine a section edifice for Coffee.
We said our Final goodbyes, and by 6 PM maine and Kiran were driving backmost to Mangalore and @mohansrides drove connected towards Mumbai.

Conclusion - Same Same, but different!

It’s been astir a period since the gathering was over, but the memories are inactive fresh! We hadn’t acceptable a precocious benchmark for this meet, we conscionable wanted it to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic our erstwhile meet. Not lone did we lucifer the benchmark set, we surpassed it by a bully margin. Everything astir this year’s Monsoon conscionable turned retired amended than the erstwhile year's meet. From the Weather to the nutrient to the fig of bhpains who participated successful the meet. But the Basic premise of having bully nutrient and enjoying the institution of chap bhpains remained the same, and the conscionable was a large success.

Looking guardant to adjacent year's Monsoon meet!