Sharavathi Valley - 1

We started from Bangalore around 10 PM from our own vehicle. Anticipating a better experience in mind and lot of excitement our journey halted after a couple of hours to get rid of flattened tire.

But nobody had any foul thought on this. And journey resumed after a cup of tea from a so called Hotel.  

The morning mist on the way to shimoga was awesome, feeling the coolness we headed to Shimoga.

And we started heading to Shimoga, and reached there by around 8-8.45 AM, where we met our guide Mr. Narayan.

Parked our vehicle, and had a decent breakfast arranged by our guide, started ascending by around 10 AM. Here are some of the pics

And we got to see a porcupine’s thorn, a bird eggs on that rocky hill just before entering the forest.

Then started an amazing grassland area, where we all rested for some time, as the mountain was at an altitude where everybody started calling their well wishers of their whereabouts, because after this you can’t find any network till dusk.

Then we entered the forest area with climbing rocks and descending on the steep regions at an angle almost 70 Degree. After 6 hours of trek, we halted at a fall for bathing and the lunch was prepared by the cook bought by our guide.

Again resuming after lunch, we started towards a place “Basavan Bai” (Bulls Mouth) which was another 4 hours of trek. Here is the glimpse

Had a sumptuous meal prepared by the local cook. Still remember the taste... YUMMY. We finally laid down in our tents

Will post more....

Trek experience to Kumara Parvata

Trek to Kumaraparvatha

On October 19th, we left Bangalore in anticipation of having a great trek experience, as one of my friend was going on site for US. 

After a tiring journey, we reached Kukke at around 5 AM, where we some how got a room nearby, we freshened there and took a bit of rest.

It was a pleasant morning, cool and thought it would be supporting us in the trek. We started, almost gone for a mile or so, leaches has been all around our shoes, and some were already started their task. With a bit of difficulty, got rid of those creepy creatures. 

All of a sudden, rain started pouring cats and dogs, there was no place to take shelter. We are completely drenched, still not getting disheartened, we marched towards the peak. Almost 7 miles, we climbed the mountain, no big team, as said the time was not right for trek, there were almost trekkers at that time.

The forest was so silent, chirping birds, stream of water running from top as the rain had stopped just a few minutes back. Out of all these pain, there was a feeling of awe, when we started getting those awesome green landscapes and the ariel view from the top was enchanting. We forgot all the pain that was undergone and started to justify ourself about this decision.

Another ill luck awaited us at bhattara mane, and that is the cyclone that had started somewhere near by the sea coast. At bhattara mane there was huge mist, we can only see not more than 100m. We had taken a tent, which really saved us, and around 6 PM rain started pouring again. we halted in the tent. Experiencing the nature being in a tent over night is really a great experience I ever had. 

And, we started descending at morning 6.30 AM the next morning, we reached the ground at 9.30 AM.

Here are some of the memories captures, Photos by Swaroop S. Canon 600D

The tiring path of the trek, still a beautiful pathway, relishing the beauty of nature, we tread the path and finally got an awesome view which removed all the exhaustion.

Wow !, only trekkers can experience this ... Here are the glimpse of the same