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Ramadevara Betta is a hillock located in Tumakuru district of Karnataka dedicated to Lord Rama. I was keeping a close watch on this trek plan on BMC's (Bangalore Mountaineering Club) website from a long time and finally this week I got to know its happening and I signed up for the same.  A bunch of trekking enthusiasts were picked up from the designated pick up points in Bangalore city early in the morning and started our journey towards Tumakuru. Enroute we took a pit stop for breakfast at Hotel Udupi Grande. Post breakfast, we were given packed lunches and we started our journey towards Ramadevara Betta.  We reached the base point in 30 minutes time from this hotel.   Our trail starting point was Sri Gokula Gaushala.   We took a 5 minutes break here for a quick ice breaking and briefing about the trek by our enthusiastic trek leads.  We were briefed about the trek length which would be 7 KM in total. Luckily weather was totally supporting our trek today since it was cloudy. We th

This was an initiative jointly organized by India Post and Heritage Beku to commemorate the rich Heritage India Post has in Bangalore.  As part of this initiative, a cycling trail was organized on 31st Oct 2023   at 6:30 am. We got to know about this initiative from social media handles (Facebook, Instagram) of Heritage Beku.  We reached there on time even though we didn’t have cycles. But cycles were already arranged for us. Dress code was white so that cyclists who are part of this event could be identified easily. So few lucky ones who were not in white, got T-shirts from India Post. After a small briefing, we cyclists then set off along this postal heritage trail covering 5 places which I will be explaining in my blog now.   Sandesha Museum of Communication This is a museum which takes us back in time and explains the story of evolving communication channels in India. I have already covered this in my blog earlier ( link ). This was our meet up point for the event and we kick start