Explore the day long by 2 hrs drive with a small detour to the north of Bengaluru city. Real Indian villages, lifestyles, paddy fields, grassing cattles etc pass by visiting the world's best preserved, asia's largest treasure trove of various narrative alluring frescos, 16th Cen AD temple at Lepakshi : Vijayanagar style famed Hanging Pillar of beaming triumphantly with profusion of carvings and paintings of a huge 100-pillared dance hall, adorned with exquisite sculptures of divine beings, saints, guardians, musicians, carving of three coiled seven-hooded serpent providing an umbrella cover over a Lingam. Spectacular Gigantic Nandi sculpture in couchant posture is the India’s biggest monolithic Bull, 10 Mtr length and 6 Mtr is a colossal structure decorated by Necklace and Bells. While you drive back, stop to witness the prayers and the twin temples (810 AD) perhaps the finest and most ornate of the Dravidian temples and a huge stepped temple tank in Karnataka, at Nandi Village.