Stay at Sagar, Karnataka

We had faced difficulties in zeroing the stay at Sagara, when we planned for a trip to nearby places of Sagara (Sagar, Karnataka), also getting decent food is little tough since this place is a little remote Taluka Head Quarters. If you want to stay at Shimoga and go around no issues but that will be little far from places though....

I found these places to be decent for a short stay at Sagara. Hotel Varadashree and Hotel Pavithra. We had our all three meals (????) from the Hotel Pavithra, it was decent and value for money. For the luxury stay, you can check Matthuga (google for more) but considering the crowd visiting these places esp in monsoons, you better book well in advance....

As you might know, There are SO MANY places around Sagara, you can get the full details here

Will post about the places we visited in the coming posts.....

Weekend Trip to Jog Falls! - Day1

Recently we made a trip to Jog Falls covering Ikkeri, Sigandhur, Murudeshwer, Kollur and Agumbe for 2the weekend. These places are located in Shiva Mogga (Shimoga) and North Karnataka (Uttar Kannada) Districts of Karnataka.

Day1:

Landed in Sagara after a hectic travel from Bangalore, which is the nearest town to Jog Falls, Ikkeri and Sigandhur.After having a good breakfast, we started our journey to cover these 3 places on Day1. About 2-3 kms from Sagara, you can find this "Agoreshwara Temple, Ikkeri". More details of this temple can be found here in Wiki

Agoreshwara Temple, Ikkeri

Nandi Temple

After this, we set out to Sigandhur, which is around 40+ kms from Ikkeri, on the way, you need to cross the River Sharavathi in Ferri for about a KM to reach this beautiful Chowdeshweri Temple.This Ferri journey is really awesome crossing tiny islands in the river which are very scenic in these monsoons.

After crossing the river, you can either continue you journey on your vehicles,or there are buses to take you to the temple. More info about this Temple

After this, we had to come all the way back to Sagara, for having lunch then we headed to Jog Falls which is around 15kms from Sagara. One scenic thing about these falls is Fog and rains play with the view of the fall making it disappear and reappear every few minutes.

Jog Falls

AFAIK, Sagara is the only town where you can get some good places/lodges to stay, apart from Jog falls.

After spending about 2-3 hours, we rushed to Murudeshwer to end the day in a luxury room at RNS Residency..

Murudeshwer temple View from the Beach

On Day2 we have covered, Murudeshwer beach, temple, Kollur and Agumbe. Details will posted in a separate blog post :) ..stay tuned!