Karnataka

4 posts

The landscape and climate have changed dramatically by the time we reach Hampi. This unfamiliar arid landscape leaves me wondering why such a significant city was built here in the first place. Many of the huge boulders that make up the landscape here bear the marks of a thousand strikes with a hammer and chisel […]

23 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

Hampi and you know it..

The unwelcome and nagging pain of an old injury (I’m fine, just in need of some time resting off the bike) and the sudden realisation that it’s February already, led us to fully experience the complexities of Indian driving from the inside.  Thank goodness the car had seatbelts. Early on in our trip we’d realised […]

15 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

Can we have the bill, please?

Since our last blog Gez has celebrated another trip around the sun and we’ve been zig-zagging our way north west ish through Karnataka via Devadana, Shivamogga and Sagara. Seeking out fun bridges and Dracos as we ride. The wildlife here is truly amazing and every time we set foot even slightly out of the Western […]

13 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

I don’t like cricket

After a brief foray to the coast for a coconut or three we remembered that we are just not beach people (unless of course the surf is up) and state highways are absolutely not fun to cycle on. So we found another random hill to sweat up and headed back inland to Madikeri, in the […]

3 Feb 2025

India Karnataka

We are Coorg