Hi All, a trip to Coorg will always be an awesome stuff to experience and that too accompanying your best buddies will be a memorable one for the new year. This was my first outing with my kuchikus[friends] Raghavendra[Rag], Rajesh[Raj] and Vijaya Raghava[Raghava]. It's a common thing that all the techies nowadays prefer to explore the scenic world during the weekends to get some relief and of course we never differed in that thought and straight away planned to start on a Friday night. My Friend Rag spoke to one of the travel agency and arranged a cab[TATA Indica] for 5 including the driver.
So, after boarding the cab we headed towards Bangalore-Mysore highway and a deviation towards the right after Srirangapattana which connects us to a place called ELwal, on Mysore-Hunsur highway. Then, headed towards Kushalnagara and finally reached Coorg around 5:00 AM.
The main spot we were excited to see was ThaDiyanDamol, so we enquired the night beat police and other localites for the direction. We finally reached ThaDiyanDamol but were surprised to see that there were no lodging or eateries there and then waited for the sun rise to make some buildings or lodges or any kinda refreshment outlets visible. While it was 6:00 AM, I clicked the following scenic view.
We gottu spot a guest house but it wasn't all the way affordable they told that it would charge 1000 bucks per person and it included a coorg style breakfast, lunch and a room to get refresh. We were a quiet reluctant to board that guest house for that price but gathered some information about the trek route and finally started the trek with just 2.5 litres of a bottle full of water. Remember, we didn't had any kind off refreshments and just rubbishly headed for the trek.
On the way, we had some photo session and were amazed to watch the nature at it's best.
The above pic depicts the hill to climb also it's me towards the left, Raghava on the right and the one who is standing is Rag.
It was exciting for the first few initial hours and later on when the Sun started his duty it was getting sweat out from all of us. We still concentrated of reaching the hill top. On the way to the hill top we discovered several other small hills and were having fun. By this time our stomach started knocking for food but we all just had a bottle of water and the dry grass on the hills. Still, we thought of reaching the top.
After a while, we saw a group of trekkers who came all the way from Hyderabad and when enquired they revealed that they had a campfire on the previous night and were heading back. Now, it was getting steeper and steeper but the mission in our mind was getting the better from us.
By this time the bottle was empty and our stomach as well. We were climbing, climbing and climbing, and in the meanwhile we took a lot of break and were regretting our decision to start without any refreshments after the overnight journey. But the smile was still in our face :) and with whole lot of kidding all the way. The below pic depicts the fun we had where Raj and Rag pulling Raghava as if they were saving him from falling down the hill.
Voila, finally we reached the top, you see we climbed ThaDiyanDamol with all the niggles but the hill view on the top was cherishing. Below pic depict the view from the hill top.
We all were so overwhelmed and again had some photo session and a small nap. By this time it was around 12:00 PM. Then, we started to head back towards the cab parked area as we had to explore others places and while heading back we saw many group of trekkers/youngsters/oldies climbing the summit and we greeted them with the new year wishes.
And that's it we boarded the cab and headed towards Bhagamandala, will blog about it in my next post. Bye.... :)
So, after boarding the cab we headed towards Bangalore-Mysore highway and a deviation towards the right after Srirangapattana which connects us to a place called ELwal, on Mysore-Hunsur highway. Then, headed towards Kushalnagara and finally reached Coorg around 5:00 AM.
The main spot we were excited to see was ThaDiyanDamol, so we enquired the night beat police and other localites for the direction. We finally reached ThaDiyanDamol but were surprised to see that there were no lodging or eateries there and then waited for the sun rise to make some buildings or lodges or any kinda refreshment outlets visible. While it was 6:00 AM, I clicked the following scenic view.
We gottu spot a guest house but it wasn't all the way affordable they told that it would charge 1000 bucks per person and it included a coorg style breakfast, lunch and a room to get refresh. We were a quiet reluctant to board that guest house for that price but gathered some information about the trek route and finally started the trek with just 2.5 litres of a bottle full of water. Remember, we didn't had any kind off refreshments and just rubbishly headed for the trek.
On the way, we had some photo session and were amazed to watch the nature at it's best.
The above pic depicts the hill to climb also it's me towards the left, Raghava on the right and the one who is standing is Rag.
It was exciting for the first few initial hours and later on when the Sun started his duty it was getting sweat out from all of us. We still concentrated of reaching the hill top. On the way to the hill top we discovered several other small hills and were having fun. By this time our stomach started knocking for food but we all just had a bottle of water and the dry grass on the hills. Still, we thought of reaching the top.
After a while, we saw a group of trekkers who came all the way from Hyderabad and when enquired they revealed that they had a campfire on the previous night and were heading back. Now, it was getting steeper and steeper but the mission in our mind was getting the better from us.
By this time the bottle was empty and our stomach as well. We were climbing, climbing and climbing, and in the meanwhile we took a lot of break and were regretting our decision to start without any refreshments after the overnight journey. But the smile was still in our face :) and with whole lot of kidding all the way. The below pic depicts the fun we had where Raj and Rag pulling Raghava as if they were saving him from falling down the hill.
Voila, finally we reached the top, you see we climbed ThaDiyanDamol with all the niggles but the hill view on the top was cherishing. Below pic depict the view from the hill top.
We all were so overwhelmed and again had some photo session and a small nap. By this time it was around 12:00 PM. Then, we started to head back towards the cab parked area as we had to explore others places and while heading back we saw many group of trekkers/youngsters/oldies climbing the summit and we greeted them with the new year wishes.
And that's it we boarded the cab and headed towards Bhagamandala, will blog about it in my next post. Bye.... :)
The senic view was worth d struggle Kano. D best part is taking nap in such a beautiful place. :-)
ReplyDeleteGood start Vasu :)and a nice Blog to start with :) Initially I thought this blog is of 2011 December's trip to Mysore :)
ReplyDeletegood man :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Pallavi, Raghava and Raghavendra!
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