Getting there

  This place is famous for its 72 hairpin bends, especially appreciated by a lot of bikers. As riding a bike on this Ghat section will be on the list of every motorbike enthusiast. This trip was carried out as part of our community (Free-living experiments) where we did not even know each other but still, we all had great fun with adventure and completed the trip on a positive note of inclusion,  Initially, I planned to go on a bike ride to this place, however, this was changed as a few of the community members suggested taking a car as they did not have a bike. This is the beauty of our community where everyone's suggestions are considered and the plan was changed to take a car we were in total of 10 members and discussion was very active in our WhatsApp on which car to rent and at one point Albin and Shashank told that he would be willing to bring a car and with that, it was all sorted and our plan to visit Kolli hills on 1st and 2nd of July 2023 was fixed, so among 10 one member

This was a place which was in my want to go list saved on my Google maps account. Melukote is a place with rich historical and spiritual importance, it was in 12th Century when a saint Ramanujacharya decided to reside in this location for 14 long years as a result it became a spiritual hotspot. We had decided to start the ride at around 4 AM, 4 bike (3 Himalayan, 1 Suzuki Gixxer).  Meeting point was hotel Taj, Yeshwanthpur. Since this was temple ride, I woke bit early around 3:30 AM to have bath and I was all ready at 4.45 and pinged my friend to check  if he was ready, he told me that he was still getting ready. Three of them were all coming from Vijayanagar and as I stay in yeshwanthpur, so told him to inform me once they left the place. Around 4:30 AM i got a ping that they left, I unplugged my Phone from charger and got going,...  I reached the meeting  point (Hotel Taj) around 4:50 and after a wait of 5 min they came, greeted each other plugged in my ear buds and we st