Mandaragiri hills : Picnic spot
Place : Mandaragiri hills Distance from Bangalore : Around 70 km Trip type : Day trip/Half day trip Day of travel : 29th August. After listening to our trek stories and reading our blog, our close relative who stays in Bengaluru showed their interest towards trekking. So we decided to have one group trek/outing with Social distancing. Considering kids in the group we decided to do the easier trek. After doing some research we finalised the Mandaragiri Hills. Mandaragiri Hills is around 70km from Bangalore, and took around 2 hours to reach to the parking spot. We saw around 10 more cars parked in the parking slot. It was a surprise for us because all the places we went earlier, hardly had any cars or people around. This was little disappointing to me but decided to continue anyways. Mandaragiri hill on the background(White strip are Steps) The place - On the base of hill there is a Jain temple(which was closed due to Corona). Unlike other hills, this is a barren naked hill. there we