This is the first time I've planned to write a blog and the motive behind this is my Kodachadri trip. I couldn't stop sharing with you people the awesome experience I had and I thot writing a blog is the best way... So here it goes....
On 6 Feb, 2010 we( Karthik, Harish, Rakesh, Vamshi, Raju and of course myself Venkat) planned to visit kodhachadri, located in Shimoga dist...
V decided Qualis as our mode of transport. I Started at 9 30 from my office (Keane) and reached Harish’s house at around 10 . We were supposed to leave at 10 30 But this idiot Karthik being punctually late for everything, was late that day as well...
So we somehow managed to leave at 11 55 PM. On the way to Tumkur just as we reached Yeshwantpur railway gate, there was a huge traffic jam. The reason being Railway crossing. But when we discovered that the traffic dint move even after 10 mins, we 3 got down to check what was wrong.
Here starts the comedy.. Mr.Rakesh( We call him Kaaki,meaning Crow in telugu) is a kind of person who is ready to become bakara by default and Vamshi is a kind of person who never misses an opportunity to make fun of kaaki.. Vamshi is a real humorous guy. Can make any person laugh in any situation. I admire his sense of humour.
Well our journey to kodhachadri continued then, as we reached Gubbi, near tumkur one of the car tyres got punctured. So our driver replaced it with the stepney and went to get the punctured one patched.
Since the last seats of qualis had a slight problem, Mr.Harish decided to use his talent to repair it. He was infact highly talented to break the legs of seat completely... :P Then we all used our hidden talents and gave the seat a support with 8 bricks which we stole from a building near by which was under construction. I’m sure the owner of building would’ve cursed us properly as there were just 10 bricks from where we stole 8 :P . By this time, our driver came back...
Just at that time someone among us gave an idea that we shall get some food parcel while trekking. So we drove back 4 kms to Simha farms in search of food. We had to order for food and it would take 1 hour for preparation. In the meantime, the owner of that Simha farms was good enough to provide us the cricket ball and bat.
We played for around 1 and hour and the food was ready. Then started eating. Hmmmmmm, the food there was sooooo yummy that we hogged almost everything as if we hadn't eaten for a week. Then our researcher Karthik went in search of tender coconuts and of course got them. Damn, the tender cocos were sooooo sweet...
Then Karthik told, "After having full meals and big tender coconut how can you ppl even think of trekking in the blazing sun, noooooooo, we will take rest for some time." We all being a group of lazy buggers agreed and took rest for more than an hour.
Finally our adventurous trek started at 4 PM with a guide ( Paandu, a real nice guy).
Actually there are 3 routes to reach the peak point,
1. Take Jeeps on the mud road which would cost 1000 per trip( To and fro).
2. Walk on the same jeep route, not a big deal.!
3. Get inside the forest thru edlumane falls and trek from there...
Yeah, we took the third one, the most adventurous one.
After walking on the road for 4 kms and trekking for 0.5 km, we reached Edlumane falls, a beautiful, serene falls amidst the dense forest... Couldn’t spend much time there as our guide paandu kept on reminding that we need to reach the mud road before it becomes dark.
But we were really tired. So opened our parcel which we had got from Simha farms.. Again started eating... Then continued our journey... Believe me guys, this is a real challenge to trekthis way and of course an enjoyable one. At some point when we entered the forest , the huge trees covered us completely giving us a feeling that we were actually trekking in the night and when we came out of the cover we felt as if the sun has risen .... We experienced this day and night feeling almost 5 times during our trekking. Everybody but Raju were tired trekking coz Raju is a guy with hardly any flesh in his body... He can easily climb Himalayas without even halting once.
With full josh, we reached the peak point. ... There is one house on the peak point called Bhattara mane. The people there will take care of providing food and shelter for us... Bhatta, the person iuncharge there asked us"Yen beku thinnokke"(What would you like to have).. We asked him "Yenenidhiyo, yella ondond plate tagond baa"(Get one plate each of everything you have :-)). This shows how hungry we were…
The shelter there was a tent, which of course is a different and lovely experience.... When we looked up in the sky, wowwwwwwww, we could see millions and millions of stars… The reason being we were above the clouds and the sky was totally clear. I really have no idea when I slept while I was watching the stars…
Got up at 6, reached the peak point , the point from where the best view of sun rise can be captured.By the time we reached there , there were already many people sitting and waiting for the sun to rise. They all were sitting as if they were waiting for the most interesting cricket match to start. Well, we joined them too..
At 640 AM, a small red dot appeared in the clear sky.. Entire crowd started shouting... "Yeahhhhhhh surya banthu, surya banthu...." Yes this was the moment we were waiting for..!!! The red dot , the SUN , started rising slowly. At 6:59 AM, we could see the best view of completely risen sun.. It was all just a matter of 20 mins... wowwwwww, this was the most wonderful and best view of sun rise I had ever seen in my life.
Captured enough fotos, posed many in front of the sun....
Later we got down in Jeep... Reached Sharavathi back waters which is around 20 kms from Mittur.. Here we took bath, swam , played for some time and then left to Sigandur Chowdeshwari temple...
It was 6 30 in the evening when we started back to Blore...
Overall, it was a wonderful and unforgetteble experience.
Other details
Over all cost per head : 2K
Places covered : Edlumane falls, Kodachadri, Simha farms, Sharavathi back waters, Sigandur temple.
Overall distance covered: 1000 kms.
Cheers,
Venky
