Its been 8 months since I am in hyderabad and no jolly trip with friends. A friend called me on thursday, told about Anathagiri hills. As usual, I got excited hearing hills.. Good old Bangalore days rolled in my thoughts.. trekking.. biking 150km.. pleasant weather.. all together those were awesome trips. Thinking of one more awesome trip, without any hesitation, I said YES. Lets go...
I somehow convinced my roommate to come with me as a pillion rider. With all the plan, we started at 5:30AM. Thinking of trekking, I wore my 3/4 cotton pants and light weighted t-shirt, stylish Adidas cap and fasttrack goggles to look cool.
It was nice when we came out from my room. As soon as we reached BHEL circle it suddenly became colder, I think the temperature dropped by 5-7 degrees there. Wow, awesome it is. As soon as we reached patancheru, the temperature dropped by 3 more degrees. I started shivering due to my half covered legs and light t-shirt.
My friend told we have to take a turn at isnapur and go into the small roads instead of the highway. Hmm.. the roads are bit OK. Asking people at every junction, we reached Shankarapalli railway station. Here it became awfully cold and started literally shivering. An autowala told us the nearest and best route to Vikarabad is through tangadapally. Anantha giri is 10km from Vikarabad. My pillion rider started driving. He is an amateur driver and got a chance to speed up on empty roads. We were on 80kmph speed and a reached sharp turn. He applied the breaks but bike hardly came to 70kmph when we reached the turn. With lot of struggle, he tried to take the turn in that speed but lost control. He suddenly applied front disk breaks, the bike became unstable. All I remember is flying in the air and my friend was already on the groud, face up, watching me fly. The bike fell aside, my friend fell little distant from bike and I fell little further. Luckily, except small bruises, nothing happened to any of us (Even bike started in single kick). After thorough examination and confirmed nothing major happened, we smiled, laughed, laughed loud and I started driving :P
We reached Vikrabad by 8am. Felt little strange since there was no hill seen nearby. Proceeded towards ananthagiri hills. There is just a temple on the hill top. No trekking???? What the hell? I don't see any hill at all... There is a resort by APTDC on the other side of the hill. The security guard told us there is no trekking spot at ananthagiri hills. 80km journey became useless. We had breakfast at APTDC hotel and headed back to Hyderabad.
It became scorching hot after 10AM. Now I know the difference in bike trip at Bangalore and Hyderabad. We could see only 1 or 2 people at every 5 km distance. The roads were completely deserted and the heatwave didnt let us speed above 50kmph. Finally, with lot of regret and pain, we reached home by 12:30PM. When I see my face in mirror, I looked like a crow due to the heat, pollution.
Conclusion: There is no trekking at Ananthagiri hills. Only APTDC resort and a temple on the hill top. If you plan to go with family for a weekend get away, it might be good. Dont go for a bike trip in summer. (FYI, in hyd summer starts in Feb ends in September)
I somehow convinced my roommate to come with me as a pillion rider. With all the plan, we started at 5:30AM. Thinking of trekking, I wore my 3/4 cotton pants and light weighted t-shirt, stylish Adidas cap and fasttrack goggles to look cool.
It was nice when we came out from my room. As soon as we reached BHEL circle it suddenly became colder, I think the temperature dropped by 5-7 degrees there. Wow, awesome it is. As soon as we reached patancheru, the temperature dropped by 3 more degrees. I started shivering due to my half covered legs and light t-shirt.
My friend told we have to take a turn at isnapur and go into the small roads instead of the highway. Hmm.. the roads are bit OK. Asking people at every junction, we reached Shankarapalli railway station. Here it became awfully cold and started literally shivering. An autowala told us the nearest and best route to Vikarabad is through tangadapally. Anantha giri is 10km from Vikarabad. My pillion rider started driving. He is an amateur driver and got a chance to speed up on empty roads. We were on 80kmph speed and a reached sharp turn. He applied the breaks but bike hardly came to 70kmph when we reached the turn. With lot of struggle, he tried to take the turn in that speed but lost control. He suddenly applied front disk breaks, the bike became unstable. All I remember is flying in the air and my friend was already on the groud, face up, watching me fly. The bike fell aside, my friend fell little distant from bike and I fell little further. Luckily, except small bruises, nothing happened to any of us (Even bike started in single kick). After thorough examination and confirmed nothing major happened, we smiled, laughed, laughed loud and I started driving :P
We reached Vikrabad by 8am. Felt little strange since there was no hill seen nearby. Proceeded towards ananthagiri hills. There is just a temple on the hill top. No trekking???? What the hell? I don't see any hill at all... There is a resort by APTDC on the other side of the hill. The security guard told us there is no trekking spot at ananthagiri hills. 80km journey became useless. We had breakfast at APTDC hotel and headed back to Hyderabad.
It became scorching hot after 10AM. Now I know the difference in bike trip at Bangalore and Hyderabad. We could see only 1 or 2 people at every 5 km distance. The roads were completely deserted and the heatwave didnt let us speed above 50kmph. Finally, with lot of regret and pain, we reached home by 12:30PM. When I see my face in mirror, I looked like a crow due to the heat, pollution.
Conclusion: There is no trekking at Ananthagiri hills. Only APTDC resort and a temple on the hill top. If you plan to go with family for a weekend get away, it might be good. Dont go for a bike trip in summer. (FYI, in hyd summer starts in Feb ends in September)
