“Trek and tiring? No it was refreshing.” I said
“Oh My god!! You are crazy!!”
The weekend trek. The best of the treks I have been to till now. But as Arun said “the best trek” keeps changing as and when the number of treks increases. Last week we went on a trek to MuLLiyanagiri – the highest peak in Karnataka.
Friday night Arun, Shridhar and me left to chikmagalore from Bangalore, Srinivasa from Mangalore and Narayan from mysore. Srinivasa and narayan reached chickmagalore at about 1 30 early in the morning. You can imagine how frustrate a person can be to go for a loaf around at 2 am checking out the distance boards, taking their pics, discovering a weird horse which was laying down and sleeping(horses don’t lay down and sleep) making a detained study of the town. And how much more frustrated can he be to check his weight a dozen number of times with all combinations – with shoes, without shoes, with backpack, without back pack and what not.(later that evening when I told this to shruti, she was like “I thought alteast your friends were sane, but now I am having second thoughts.”). yes that is srinivas and narayan for you, sane or insane…
We reached chikmagalore at around 5 30 in the morning. Without wasting anytime went to the restaurant in the bus stand. What can you expect to get at that hour? But when on a trek comfort is our least priority. Srinivas and narayna joined us there at the restaurant after their midnight to early morning “loafing around the town”, as always with a smiling face.
Outside the bus stand a private bus to bababuDDangiri was waiting for us. I was planning to have a second round of sleep, but when we entered it we came to know that it there were no seats for us to occupy. And within no time the conductor came to us and asked us to part away from our dear back packs, which srini was very reluctant to. For him his backpack is more than his girlfriend. This prompted us ask if we could occupy the balcony seats… right bus top seat.
This was my first bus top experience and was awesome, it was thrilling at times, each time a the bus came across a tree, looking at srini s face we had to bend down so that we would not bang into a branch… luckily nothing went wrong….Srini started clicking pics from the moment the bus started (yes sometimes srini can go to any extend with is obsessions). After about an hour of thrilling journey we reached bababuDDangiri. Due to rain during the previous week the scenery was very good. And weather on that day was good too. We were above clouds. Different shades of green on land, blue in the sky. Nature is really beautiful. There we decided to trek to maNikyadhara falls which is around 5 km from bababuDDangiri. I got one more proof to support a fact at maNikyadhara. Something our people are very expert at. Leave them at world s most beautiful place for just 1 day and the very next day when you visit the place it would be very difficult to recognize the place. It would have become the dirtiest place. Manikyadhara looks very much like a shower, very beautiful until it reaches ground, rainbow formed midway to ground,
but resembles drainage tank once it reaches ground. People there have bath and throw their clothes near the falls, the place stinks.
One more beautiful place ruined. I sometimes pray for a miracle to happen and destroy roads to all beautiful places.
Until that moment our plan was to get back to bababuDDangiri, catch a bus to chikmagalore and get down midway and start our trek to muLLiyangiri. But at breakfast (second round, and getting lunch packed) we decided to trek all the way to muLLiyangiri (around 14 km). after all we what work did we have but to loaf around and enjoy nature all we wanted was to get to the peak before sun set. On asking the route to the owner of the small eating place he asked us to got to the BSNL tower from where the path would be easily visible. Thus started our trek to muLLiyangiri.
PS: to be continued
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