Monday, November 15, 2010

Trek To Tadiyandanamol

After pretty long time .. we decided to head for long drive and a small trek .. all our idea was to spend most of the time on drives .. so we needed a place which is scenic and most beautiful and also not to forget that our urge to trek the mountains which can be covered in a day time.

The search begin for finding a suitable route and trek spot .. and without wasting time Tadiyandanamol trek was proposed because of its awesome beauty and landscape and also good driving place from Bangalore.. and within no time ..plan is finalized after a couple of mail chains.

The plan was to Drive by car and Trek the Tadiyandanamol peak and head back after a night stay in near by peak, finally total of 8 ppl decided to go with 2 cars [Linea and Baleno], we planned to leave Bangalore in the morning 4AM and reach Coorg around 9AM in the morning and start the trekking activity.

Day 1
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When we woke up the time was already 5AM in the morning and we knew that we got late [as usual] and after calling other guys [wake up call ] finally we managed to leave B'lore aound 7AM instead of 4AM .Yes, there is considerable delay which we need to make up.

we took a break near mysore after crossing the few km from the B'lore Mysore junction ..and had our breakfast ... after that we headed towards coorg, by the time we reached the Virajpet it was already 12PM and everyone of us are in a hurry to reach to Tadiyandanamol peak..

Finally at around 1PM we reached near Tadiyandanamol and parked our cars after talking to the local shop owner and also with his help we were able to get accommodation at the base of the peak, its just a small house which will provide food and sleeping space for that night and we agreed to pay them 250/- per person, soon after we got the route information to reach the peak .. which is about roughly 5-8km distance one side which will cover couple of smaller peaks before reaching the Tadiyandanamol Peak.

We started the trek with lot of fun .. and initial 1-2 km was on the dirt road and then started the ascend to the nearby mountain ... on either side of this was the cofee plantation ..later we came to know that this particular breed of coffee is called Arabic coffee


From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

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From Tadiyandanamol


After crossing this checkpoint there were two paths one is ascending to peak and other one is descending to the house which we need to stay for that night. we continued towards the peak and after some 2km of walk , we saw the most amazing view that anyone can imagine of .. the entire mountain range of westren ghats were full of green and fresh from monsoon breeze and more over the sun is playing Hide and Seek with clouds due to that we can see wonderful shades of sunlight and shadow over the mountains.


From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol


Just past this beauty we walked and started capturing the beauty with our camera .. suddenly more than 100 thousands of Dragonflys started fluttering the sky and covering the entire sky ..this is the most beautyfull view i have ever seen in my life ..and some time its scary also .. as hundreds of Dragon flys were touching us and sitting over us ..


From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

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From Tadiyandanamol



After spending some 30min in this place we marched forward .. and from this place there is flat land for about few km to walk .. and again steep ascend to the mountain .. we crossed all these with very relaxed mood and with lot of fun and enjoyment.. we took small break before heading to steep ascend on the mountain

with occasional rains playing and with beautiful views of the mountains .. we didn;t felt the need to rest and .. as we reached the almost top of the peak the rain started pouring heavily on us ..Thankfully we didn;t encountered much Leaches on the way .. after reaching the Top most of the Tadiyandanamol .. we were extremely happy and almost stayed there on the peak for about 15 to 20 min .. although rain continued to Entertain us .. it was pleasant.


From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

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From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

From Tadiyandanamol

 
Soon we started our journey back towards the house halfway where we planed to stay for that night .. and by the time we reached the house it was 8:30 pm and every one is soo hungry that they can eat anything which can be consumable irrespective of like or dislike.. but for our timing the house owner still shopping in the town for commodities and we needed to wait for 2 hours .. in this 2 hour we spent for cleanup ourself and relax .. it was still drizzling out side .. and there was no electricity in this remote corner..

Later we finished the  dinner and it was very cold outside ..so we asked for a campfire which was arranged by the owner of the house ..we spent some good time there before going to bed.

Day 2
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Morning we woke up around 7AM and it was really refreshing outside a complete sleep last night ensured us with good energy for the day activities .. we left the place after getting ready and before coming down took few good snaps

The rest of the day went in roaming around the place and finally visiting the Ranganatittu near mysore with plenty of breaks in between, and again this time we had one more successful trek :D

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amazing trip. It feels good now that we are going to the same place tomorrow :)

Kudos Nagoo!

Cheers
Kashyap

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