Augumbe Trip - With Office Colleagues

It was winter' Dec'20, I was planning to go out with office guys for the trekking in addition to the fun filled trip. I picked up Agumbe location and thought of having waterfalls trek to Kudlu Water Falls, but this was closed due to Covid hence we choose the Kavaledurga hills for the trekking, this is short trekking about 3KMs from the base. 

We all joined at office together near Hennur flyover at 10PM and guys started drinking already. Everyone boarded the vehicle and departed towards destination. We were enjoying the music, dancing and having so much fun till midnight. We reached the homestay @ 6AM and got freshened up. 

Having breakfast at Homestay

Then we departed to the Kavaledurga hills for the trekking. It was sunny morning, we packed some snacks and started trekking at 7:30AM. Trek started near paddy fields, it has clear path filled with rock steps. Need to be careful during rainy season otherwise, it easy to climb. We used to see fort ruins along with our trails, guys were busy with taking pics. we reached to the mid point where we could find the beautiful Pond. Then went inside the dense forest where trial is very thick and hard. Reached the top of the hills, view point is beautiful and mindblowing. The wind was much pressure and pushing us towards the downhill.

Below is video of our trekking in the kavaladurga:

Kavaledurga Hills View Point

We climbed down the hills by 11AM and reached the home stay for the breakfast. The breakfast at home stay was ok. We took some rest till after noon. then decided to go to beach near Udupi in the evening. 

Beautiful Beach

We went to the beach by 4 and spent 2 hours till 6. The beach was very beautiful and no plastics around. I really like the clean, and peaceful beaches. This is private beach with no much access to the public. The residences nearby the beach warned us not come to again to this beach. This beach is about 20 KMs from Malpe near Udupi. We reached back to the homestay at around 9P and got refreshed for the dinner + Firecamp.

Homestay arranged the nice fire camp and we really enjoyed whole night. Very few of us doing chit-chat will 3AM morning, talking some old stories etc. There was also small clash between two of my colleagues for some reason and turned to be softened after I intervened and made them ok. 

Kundadri Hills

Next day, we went to Kundadri Hills, which has been very steep and driving was good but made us all scared at some point when we encounter one car near the curve. They vehicle was coming back and we put stone to the tyre immediately and ensured it drives forward at high power. The hills are beautiful, you should visit either morning or evening. There is Jain temple located in this hill station.

Augumbe View

Shringeri Hanging Bridge

Shringeri Temple

We head back to the Sirimane Waterfalls near Shringeri unfortunately, the falls were closed due to renovation and we had to come to the temple. We had darshan and had some food. This temple is old and beautiful. This is one of the Peethas of four established by Shankaracharya. This temple is located on the banks of Thunga River. There is hanging bridge across the river. We had some photoshoots on the hanging bridge. Then we started heading back to the Bangalore. 

On the way we had dinner and reached Bangalore at midnight. 

Shishila Hills-Mudigere

This was the first trip planned to outstation after the lockdown, It was damn boring at home during lock time, Covid pushed our life to the down and tested us so badly. 

I was searching for the homestay which should be adventures and should get lost in the woods of forest. We have finalised the place called Shishila Jungle Stay, near mudigere. We have four people, my and my wife and two friends joined us. 

We started our journey on Saturday morning as usual @ 5AM and picked my friends near Bommanahalli.It was really feeling relaxed  after so many days we went outside. We had breakfast on the way to Hassan. We reached the Shishila hills at around 1 PM in the afternoon. The road towards this jungle stay was off road, my swift car really amazing and road condition is bad for about 2kms, it was completely off road, so many stones, up and downs. etc, but it was really fun and adventure. 

Road towards Jungle Stay

After reaching there, we had nice lunch along with few drinks, It was raining and u know when you are in mid of forest, drinking when it rains, it feels really so excitement. Food was really good, we enjoyed it. After the lunch, we went to nearby place where we can see the astonishing views. View points are really awesome but it was raining continuously. We enjoyed a lot under the rain. 

My daughter Nishita Roy

Nearby Hills View Point

In the evening, while we finished our drinks, we went to have dinner to canteen at 11:30PM , It was crazy chilled weather, I couldn't tolerate that much cold. Myself and Girish took the food in the plate by that time it started raining. There was 40 meter distance between my room and canteen. When we started running towards toom along food and umbralla, I slipped and my leg was stuck in the wood which was lying across small aqueduct. It really hurts a lot then somehow I removed my leg and went to the room. 

Then morning, we thought of going to the trekking to the nearby hills( Karadi Gudda), This was very good of adventure trekking I can say as my daughter also came with me and I had to put her on my shoulder all the way to peak of of the hills. This sounds crazy as hills path is so slippery as it was raining heavily. The wind was so much across the hills, we could not walk properly. We went to the top of of the hills then rain started coming heavily and spent 10 mins holding umbralla and started climbing down. My Friend Girish got hurt from stone while coming down. This was kind of really nice but also got hurt from this adventure things

Me and My Friends in the Karadi Gudda Hills

Trekking towards the peak

Tadiyandmol Trek at Madikeri

Trip Route: Bangalore-Mysore-Virazpet-Kakkabbe-Tadiyandmol-Madikeri-Kushalanagar-Back Bangalore

Travel Mode: Mini Bus hired

Travel Distance:800 KMS

Trip Date: 1st-2nd Dec 2012

Team: Ujjivan Employees, 17 People

Summary of Trip:

Well, this trip has planned for almost 15 days prior to execution. We had together of 17 guys, started our journey @ Koramangala, Bangalore on 1st  Dec 2012 at night at around 11PM. Everybody was picked up and started moving towards Mysore, Everybody was buzzing, dancing and Cheering off course. We reached to Virazpet at around 6AM in the next morning, we gotta some confusions over the route, Routes were very bad in the Virazoet dt. I would suggest not to travel the route towards Virazpet as it has pathetic roads in 2010. Take towards from madikeri town towards virazpet. We Reached to Tadiyandmol Base At 10AM after having break fast. Tadiyandmol is second tallest hill in Karnataka, India. you need to go to Aramane where you can start the trekking , No guide or permission is required. Only you need to go till Aramane(Palace) is important through forest curves of roads. 

Trekking with team

Everybody was busy in starting the trek. We kept moving towards hills, It was too hiky roads. you will get tired usually , it is easy-moderate path. After 3KMs, you will have to trek difficult -moderate trek path through hills. Hills were very beautiful. Everybody was so tried in hiking hills. for every 30Mts, everybody was was taking  rest and used to seat. however we manage to  top of hills in 4 hrs. Top of hills was looking awesome.  we moved back from top to base in 2 hrs. Then we moved back to Madikeri town where we had evening lunch and had a time pass @ Raja seat. We planned of doing night camp at one of friends house at Kushalanagar. We had drinks and food during the night camp. 

On the next morning , we bathed at Kaveri Nagar. We went to Goldan Temple and then moved to Dubare Forest where we did rafting. It was very nice fun and having swim at Kaveri River was kind of new experience over there. We swam and enjoyed a lot in water. We went to Kaveri Nisarga Dama where we had felt good in the evening but we didn't have time to spend much time there. We Started moving towards bangalore. On the way , we had evening lunch/dinner at Daba. Everybody was so tired and reached to Bangalore at around !2PM.However, this has memorable one.

Cheers

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