Riderz Nexus 2019: Coorg Kadamkolli Resort

December 07-08

Early morning start to the ride from Bangalore

After a lovely ride we reached Kadamkolli resort- Venue for Riderz Nexus

ThRoTLS team 

The Products on display-- found these useful

Useful for night riders. This products is on your back, connects to your bike indicators. Ease of visibility to the large vehicles

Found these arm bands interesting. Affordable & useful for night riders

The resort is well maintained, good local food cooked by the in-house cooks. We were lucky to get something to eat. Food was an issue at the event- especially for the vegetarians. Leave the food aside, the place is very scenic & beautiful. So I would rate 5 star for the resort location. Rooms are pretty basic.

Our trek in the morning treated us with this greenery

@the venue kitchen

my time to explore the place

Event night with music & games

Showing off my badges

This was my first long ride. Return journey was tiring as we started late and ended up in heavy traffic towards Bangalore. 

Live to RIDE; Ride to GIVE: Nallaguttahalli

The ThROTLS team came up with yet another donation drive, this time for a Government Higher Primary School in Nallagultapalli Gram Panchayat. We had received a request from school for school bags & notebooks for the kids through a friend of VJ.
A big thanks to all the friends who came forward to help with this drive and made it a success. Thumbs-up to those who made it to the drive and a big hug to those to contributed to this initiative. 

Start of the ride

One for the kids

Early morning ride of 75kms with a breakfast stop, we reached the school. The ride was scenic with green farmland on either side of the road. Upon reaching the school we were welcomed by Raghu who has adopted this school to ensure betterment of the school. Surprise surprise...we were welcomed with a welcome speech from the school Headmaster, a senior teacher and then a thank you note from Raghu. The welcome speech was followed by handing over a Rose to each one of us who had come. Post which the handing over of the school bags and sports items were given out to all the students of the school by us. The excitement in the eyes of the students was more for the football, throwball & badminton rackets we could see. So the teachers declared that the kids could play with what was given to them. Back in the staff room we were served hot tea and some snacks, completely unexpected. Some chit chat with the teachers and Raghu suggested that we have lunch with him & his Guruji.

Shetty & camera with curious kids

Excited to receive their bags

Riding team

Staff room

Keen listeners

We were requested to head to the temple which was atop a hill in Nallaguttahalli. It is believed that this temple has a pond which never dries. Amazingly you can walk on top of it; probably because of the weeds that have grown over it. The water in the pond has healing properties and all the villagers nearby use the water as their medicine. Raghu himself claimed that he & his family haven't taken any medication for ailments and the water from this pond is consumed whenever they are ill. Also the weed growing on top of the pond gives out some kind of seed which they call it the beads, given to ladies in the village who are getting married to add it onto their wedding chain. The color of the bead varies from white, grey & black. I got some of it home :) supposedly good luck for married women. There is also a natural cave which has a door constructed now to ensure there is control on who goes in and comes out.
It didn't end there, it happened to be Guruji's birthday that day and we were offered a good home cooked meal at the temple premises. The team there took care of us like we were their personal guests serving food with patience and inquiring on anything that we needed. Hospitality at its best. Guruji sat down with us for lunch too. Post lunch a cup of coffee for all and we rested at the hill top to enjoy the cool breeze. Some bit of chit chat and we decided to ride back to Bangalore. All in all a ride worth the effort.

View from hilltop

Temple

Outside the temple

The cave

Pond with weed on it

Beads

Its true we can walk on the pond

Relaxing

Bhojan time

The pond

Another view from the outside

Friends in conversation