Trippin Badami Pattadakal.

I had 4 days off and came home to a empty house , parents where out on a trip themselves. With most of my friends either in Bangalore or other cities , I was left with little to do.A professor of mine had been to Badami and had recommended the place and it being about 120 Kms from Hubli decided to visit it. JJ a ever trip ready friend of mine had a Karizma , which I loved to ride, it was shod with Duro Dual purpose tyres which was perfect for the roads here.

The route we had decided to take Hubli>NavalGund>Nargund>Kulgerei > Badami.

We left Hubli around 7:30 , The ride to Badami was uneventful , I was expecting the field adjacent to the roads to be covered in Sunflower plants, but encountered few.



Badami Caves is in the city itself , the road which leads to it is filthy and narrow. The entrance to the caves cost us 5 Rs and parking 5.
The moment you enter the premises you see the huge rock and it looks really beautiful. After clicking a few pics, the Camera went dead, I had particularly asked JJ to charge the Cam atleast 5 times, the only think that saved him that day was his I Phone which had a pretty decent camera



I was expecting to see a lot of "caves" , however these are not exactly caves but rather rock-cut temples.



On the left side of the caves is the a huge tank and it looks really awesome with the green grass and surrounding temples. The temple over looks a large lake which is surrounded by temples on one side.



A small cave like structure, with a few unfinished carvings.



From here we visited the Badami Temples, its a sprawling temples with temples dedicated to many different gods.








At lunch we inquired which are the other places to visit and Mahakoota was recommend, we made it there but the place was disappointing , it was not maintained and is filthy and can be skipped.We had to skip Mahakuta as the ride to Mahakuta , took a bit of time




I wanted to continue on to Kudala Sangama from here but had a long ride back home.