Shivaganga

saturday needed to be our rest day from a long week at work, and in india but instead we decided to try to sleep as long as possible, but i think we were both up by 10am.  so as soon as possible we made some quick decisions for the day plan and left the house.  we had decided to get on the bus and try to go to the railroad station to see if there were any day trips or quick overnights we could do.  unfortunately due to heavy traffic on the saturday we didnt get over there till like 2pm.  and i think we left around noonish.  i have decided that transit is the most frustrating thing in third world countries.  anyways all the trains had left for the day so we found a small tourism booth and asked the man in there what we could do for the day.  he said we could go to a place out of bangalore called shivaganga.  he mentioned some details but i dont remember any of them except for monkeys and mountains and i was sold.  so he sent us to the bus station to catch a bus:

the bus took us about 1 and a half to 2 hours to get to this small pit stop called d0bbosapete.  which sounded a lot like the bus pit but he said it wasn't, but when we got there i think title fit it well.  it was a small little town right on the major road.  out of this little town we took an auto to the base of this small mountain we saw from highway:

it is funny because when i saw the mountain i told the guy next to me that i loved mountains and i wish i could go hike one.  he asked me where i was headed and i told him dobbosapete and he pointed right at the mountain and said thats it.  boy was i excited! when  we got to the base of this mountain there was a small community there purely dedicated to the hindu religion.  it reminded me of like a small little indian mountain town.  it was a great atmosphere and robby and i jsut walked down the main street and everyone was looking at the white boys.  it really felt like we were in a place that hadnt seen a white man for awhile.  it was great.  the bottom was covered in white arches like this:

they were beautiful.  hiking this mountain was really cool.  there were monkeys:

and more temples along the way:

it seriously was so relaxing and very nice.  we stayed there for quite some time then when the sun was setting we left the paradise of shivaganga and went back to the dirty and crowded bangalore.