Brahmagiri Trek

This was my first trek. I was all excited and waiting for the day. First place to visit as part of this trek was "Irpu falls". Won't describe anything just take a look.

Had breakfast, collected sleeping bag arranged the backpack and all set to climb towards "Nari Male". Applied snuff and oil paste on legs and boots to safeguard from leech. You can imagine the state of my white socks.

Organizers informed that first one and half hour is the difficult path after that its easy. Many of us thought will start after one and half hour. Finally decided to explore how difficult it is and all started together.


Had “chapatti”, “chatnipudi”, salad and curds for lunch. Must say we had very good lunch. I had not expected to get that good lunch at that remote place.
Oh it’s not nap time, but its time to move ahead towards “Nari male”.

Climbed few minutes and looked around. I could see green, green and green everywhere. This was no less beautiful to what shown in movies. Should I say Beautiful/marvelous, I don't know which word suits this beauty, you take a look.

We were at “Nari male”. Welcome drink supposed to wait for us, but got little delayed. Few eagerly waiting for their tea had a bad news. While climbing with grocery we had missed tea packets.

After having energy booster "lemon juice" we started towards "Munikal caves". Couldn't see much in caves as we were late and it was very dark. But the way to "Munikal caves" itself was worth seeing. While walking back, beautiful big Moon gave us the company.

Dinner was followed by cultural activity. When I was busy enjoying the cultural activities, Red Cross at “Nari male”, took my blood without informing me.
It was time to bed, we placed our self in sleeping bag. It was very cold and I could not sleep well.

Got up in the morning, warmed our self sitting in front of fire. Eagerly waiting Tea lovers were happy to have their cup of lemon tea in the morning. Went out for a "Nature Trail" which reminded me of Education tour during school days.

Had breakfast, packed the lunch, packed the bags and started towards Brahmagiri. Two groups were made, one group which want to climb Brahmagiri and other group which will take relatively easier path.

Reached the base of the Brahmagiri hill, can I actually climb this? was the only question in mind. Does danger come along with Beauty not sure , but this hill looked beautiful and dangerous. I finally decided to climb.

Did look down while climbing up to make myself happy how much I have achieved :-). Finally we were on top of Brahmagiri. Just threw myself on the bed of grass and relaxed for sometime.


Now the time to climb down all the distance we covered in last one and half day. I had hurt my toe while climbing. Had a doctor in our team and she did a first aid and I was all ready to take my steps.

We reached "Tirunelli" in kerala and our trek came to an end.
Back to Bangalore and back to noisy life.

Adventure at Ramanagaram

This year team outing was different from previous years. Venue was “Ramanagarm” and not any resort. I was exited and eagerly waiting for the day. On Much awaited day we started from Koramangala at 8am. For the first time in my life I was sitting in School bus.
Around we 9.30am we were at the picnic spot.

Adventure club members were setting up for the adventurous events. First was rope traversing, then rappelling and Chimney climbing. Our team head count was 60+. Hence we made 3 groups. My group first went to Chimney climbing. Instructor gave instructions for chimney climbing and demonstrated. Knew it’s a tough job but wanted to do it. I started with shoes on failed, then with socks on and failed. I tried with bear foot and I was able to do it. I took my own time but successfully climbed. I was on top of the world with no energy left to touch the sky.

Next adventure spot for our group was rappelling. It looked scary but seemed to be easier than chimney climbing. I geared up for rappelling. First few steps I was little nervous. But then I just enjoyed. I Wanted to do it again and again. This did not require energy all it required was fearless steps on rock.

We were left with “Rope traversing”. This was scheduled for our team post lunch session. I was feeling rope traversing was toughest as I felt it needs more energy. We had to climb the Ladder, this was adventurous by itself. I traversed half the distance in the way I was instructed to do. But I couldn't’t continue. My back was hurting badly. I did cover the full distance but in my own way.

Evening trek to Sunset point was cancelled as it rained. We did enjoy walking in rain at base camp. Late in the evening we had singing, dancing and bonfire. They served hot “baji” to eat. After having dinner we started back to Bangalore.
This was no doubt a most memorable trek till date.

Devrayana Durga

Wanted to go trekking this weekend, Didn't knew where to go. Finally Shrilatha suggested to go to DD(Devrayana Durga).Four of us started on Saturday to DD. We drove car our self to DD enjoying the traffic free drive.

I had told I want to walk even though there is a road for vehicles to "Yoga Narasimha" Temple. Shrilatha had even told me to climb further and reach "mantapam".We reached "Bhoga Narasimha temple at base around 9.30am. It was very calm. Place is clean too.Loved the way they had tied sari to "Lakshmi" devi.

We ate Jamun first time this year.Enquired which is path to take if we are interested to walk. And started marching towards our destination.It was sunny not a very good weather for trek. But we had determined to walk and we stick to that.Few places it was steep but good experience. On the way Our camera caught beautiful pictures around us.

We reached "Bhoga Narasimha" temple.All busy in buying "pooja" material, we were busy buying eatable. We were hungry.
After taking the blessings of "Yoga Narasimha" we moved towards the "Matapam". There are arrows to guide. We had enough time to explore the rock and we went to place where it said no road :-). We were happy about ourselves not to follow the arrow as we explored many more caves.

We relaxed in sun for sometime and walked back to base.