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Another Trek - Bandajje – Arbi Falls

Hello All,



The time has come to describe about the trek which I had been the previous weekend.

The trek can be called as Bandajje – Arbi Falls – Ballalarayana Kote – Sunkashaale Trek. Bcoz these were the major places which v came across while trekking.



Nine of them (us) decided for the trek but 22nd Jan was when we heard that 5 out of 9 are cancelled due to various problems and which I don wanna discuss (bcoz even I donno). All I can say is that they missed a real good trek and I doubt whether they could have had completed also.



Let me start about the Trek. As only 4 were fully confirmed, v had to cancel the private vehicle (which I had already booked) and started to book bus tickets to Dharmasthala. Unfortunately v got no tickets in Raaja Hamsa or any other Private buses but only in " Suvarna Karnataka Saarige". J I have no words to explain how good that bus journey was. JJ. Me, Gouthama, Sandeepa and Ramesha were the only 4 'conquerors' who had decided to not drop the idea but go on doing it. Me, Ramesha and Gouthama met in majestic and got the bus (ATLAST) in which v had to spend our night. J And the bus which was scheduled to leave at 22.51 at last left at 00.00 and Sandeepa got into the bus near Navrang at 00.20. The bus driver drove very fast and dropped us in Dharmathala at 07.45. Initially v thought it would be late seeing the pace but he made it up later.



Day 1:



V freshened in a public toilet and planned to have breakfast in a hotel called " Hotel Kamath " (but Gou wanted us to have in another hotel called " Hotel Arpana "). Me and Sandeepa ordered for Upma and sandeepa got a dead Ant (Godda) in that and interestingly even I got one in my Upma too. ( What a co-incidence!!!! ) v had to leave it L(Though I din wanna leave as the taste was good J).



Anyway we had our Breakfast and were planning how to go to Bandajje Village (The place where v were supposed to start our Trek) as the direct bus to that village had already left at 7.15 and v had no other option than taking a Jeep but those guys were asking high rates (like 500, 400) but v somehow spoke and settled it up to 300 and left. V had to cross Ujire and purchased some eatables from there and continued towards Bandajje. Just before reaching the village, v met Narayana Gowda ( A well known name in the nearby villages, the head of the village and a highly dignified person ) and he told that Sundar (Our guide for the trek) has taken another group towards the hill and I had to give him a call and let him know that v have reached the village so that he will come back and take us too. As soon as v landed in the village I gave him a call and al of a sudden a person came infront of us and he was Sundar.



So atlast v started our trek. The initial trek was very similar to that of initial trek to KP(Kumara Parvatha). Dense forest (So dense that if a helicopter had passed, v could only listen to its sound but would not be able to see), full green and climbing up the hill. Ufffff……..



Atlast the forest ended and a Draught land had begun but now I wish and hope there would be no end to that forest. By the time v reached the draught land it was already noon and v had to Face the Sun God (????) directly. There a small hill would be seen and to climb that it would take atleast 40 mins and once v reach that v would see another small hill with no tree not even for shade. L v climbed and climbed and climbed taking not less than 15 breaks. And amazing thing was that I was in the end (Amazing bcoz in none of the previous treks was I behind but was leading) and no good sleep the 2 previous nights made me very slow and tired.


This very first view of the Water Fall which v never saw till v reached the stream.

V all were hungry but had decided to have lunch only after reaching the camping place which v could see but yet to reach. Atlast v reached the top and v had to climb down to reach the Stream where I once slid and fell but got up and reached the stream, freshened up and took rest. Jus laying down on the rock made us feel like heaven and v almost forgot about Lunch till the other group started to have. By then Sandeep and Goutham had put the tent and called me to start the lunch. My legs were like not willing to even stand but went up and had lunch which were 3 chapathis and that's when v got to know that v had forgotten to count Sundar(Guide) for chapathis. Anyway v gave him 3 and kept the remaining for Dinner.

Next was the much awaited task. TAKING BATH JJJ. jus 4 foot away was a stream and taking bath in it would be wonderful and ofcourse v did that. Let me not explain even that. JJJ



It was already getting dark and didn't wanna miss sun set and all of us ran towards the waterfall.

The sun set and v all returned to our tents and v discussed with the other gang members and set up the fire for the rest of the night. The interesting part here is we normally search for branches, leaves and other small wooden pieces for a camp fire but the guides here have an idea of uprooting the trees and set that up for fire so that the fire remains for a long time. Different people. Different Views. So v had our dinner and went to sleep. There had come another gang of people (seemed like college students) who were NCC cadets (thats what they called themselves) and they were spoiling our sleep with shouting, loud music and etc. Stupid People. That night I woke up atleast 25 times bcoz v 4 had slept in a 3-member tent which made it hard to sleep. And when Ramesha told that its 6 o'clock I said " oh atlast its 6. lets get started " and I went out of the tent and Ramesha followed me. But the other 2 guys din even get up. v were sitting next to the fire and were heating ourselves up. I couldn bare even after 6.30 and I woke those 2 up so that v start our trek at 7 atleast. V all got freshened up and other guys wanted to have the last look at the waterfall and v all went there and spent some time there. Took good pics.


Day 2:



V started our trek towards Ballalaraayana Kote (Fort) and it was again the same Draught land continued but din feel that tired bcoz the Sun God was still young (I mean early morning sun isn't of much heat) and din affect us much.


V finished the same distance of draught lands in jus one hour and then started was the plain trek. Even that plain trek was for almost an hour and then again started a hill bcoz v had almost reached the fort and had to ascent was a bit difficult but could manage it in 15 mins and v were on top of our TREK. The highest point of our TREK. V rested there for a few minutes and took some good snaps. Actually that's not a fort but a watch tower. 4 sides of walls not more than 3 foot and to the 4 corners they have built watch tower which r very well visible.


The walls which r seen here r the borders for the so called fort. V started our descent and were heading towards Sunkashaale. Initially it was a extreme descent from a mountain for almost 2 kms.



And then started the Jeep Track for more than 8 kms. The guide himself said " who will know the exact distance sir? U think the people who will write the board have any idea about the distance? They wil jus put 8 kms but actually this is more than that." V walked and walked and walked and were waiting to eat something. V hadn had anything from morn bcoz v had nothing left and v had decided to reach Horanaadu for lunch but it never happened. V just had 1 pack of biscuit (divided by 4) and some other snacks. V were a lot hungry and one of them had told v would get a Shop on our way and v get biscuits. So v all eagerly waited for that shop to come on our way and as I was way ahead of all of them, I was looking all around while I was walking in search of The Shop. Atlast v found one and fortunately not only biscuits v also got Tender Coconut and Bonda there. Hmmm tasty Bondas. All of us had tender coconuts and only our group left from there as v wanted to reach Horanaadu before lunch. Amazingly there was a Taar Road (which was under construction) all the way till Sunkashaale. Gosh v atlast reached Sunkashaale and were on the main road and waiting for somebody (Anybody) who would guide us the way to Horanaadu. I mean the Direction.



Then came a guy called Somanna and started asking our Bio-Data. That's when he started telling us that he is a Tractor Dealer and has sold Tractors to Naxalites!!!!! V then started suspecting whether he himself is not a Naxalite. He turned out to be NOT!!!! He seemed like a good person and told us that v get good coffee down the lane and anybody who come here never leaves without having Coffee in that shop. V were all tired and had to walk a few steps to reach there and v Had To!!! By the way Sandeepa wanted to reach Bangalore that very day (before night) and he had a diff plan from there. To reach a near by town and catch a bus to Bangalore from there. Somanna, Who was there stopped a passerby and asked him whether he was going towards Kottige Haara and placed Sandeep in his bike and sent him away. So end of Sandeep's Story. J. Continuing with our TREK (It seemed like one) towards that coffee shop and v again met somanna and he ordered us coffee and he even paid for it and told " u have come to our place and cant I do even this? " So Nice of him.



At 1.45 we got a bus to Horanadu but it was all filled and had to do stand the whole of our Journey for one and a half hour!!!! The other group behind us also boarded the same bus and luckily v 3 got seats after sometime.



V reached Horanaadu at 3.30 and searched for a room or a Public bathroom so that v take bath and have the Darshana and mainly Lunch. But unluckily v din get Lunch L but got the Darshana. J



Well I wanted to reach Bangalore by next morn at any cost and there was only KSRTC booking center. And the main part was that either there used to be no power, Voltage drop or even Slow Server which made all our attempts to buy a ticket impossible. V even tried with a private transport agent but he had only 1 ticket to Bangalore and v were 3. v tried till 7 and at last Gouthama and Ramesha spoke to a conductor and made a deal to give him 100 bucks if he gives us his MLA reserved 3 seats for the bus leaving at 20.30. Then it was time for dinner at 7.30 and the conductor had also warned us to be in the bus by 20.15 and v had a very good and hefty dinner which had Red rice (Kempakki), Sambar and curds. Hmmm Yummy.


Atlast as he had warned v were in the bus at 20.15 and as promised he also gave us the seats and v also gave him the money. V left Horanaadu at 20.45.


Day 3:


All 3 of us got down near Govardhan at 5 AM and walked to our respective houses. The main part here is ' even after a long and exhaustive trek, v walked home ' bcoz v all like walking. JJJ

MM Hills Trek

MM hills – Naagamale (nagamale) – Palar


We had a bad news 3 days before we started our trek. Tiger census was going on and no permission was given to Trek in Forests. But after lot of recommendations & Permissions, our Trek to MM hills – Naagamale (nagamale) – Palar was confirmed.

We left on 29th Jan 2010, Friday night at around 10 and left Bangalore at around 12. We had to go to Maddur and then to kollegaala and then to MM hills. Just before the MM hills ghat section started, we gave a small break and came out of the vehicle. Fortunately (or Unfortunately) we saw a Wild Pig (I am not calling it a Wild Boar bcoz it looked like a cross-breed of a normal pig and a Wild Boar). It didn’t even come close to us. It left as soon as it got to know that it gets nothing nearby. As planned we reached MM hills an hour before we were supposed to (We reached at 5 am).

(actually the trekkers have to pay 3400 rs to the govt for a group of 6 people. The dept will spend some amount on the betterment of the village.)

But the person who had told us to come at 6, had switched his mobile off and we had no other way than to go knock the Wild life Guest House door as early as 6. We were later told that they were not informed about the trek and if they were informed, we could have left for the trek at around 8. As we had a lot of time, we took a room for rent, took bath, went for Darshana, had our Breakfast and later again went to the guest house where we met the Guide cum Gun-man. As per the rules the department was supposed to send a Guide and a Gun-Man (with a walkie-talkie) with us. But due to a lot of complication we got only one person (named Eeranna) and that too without a Gun or a Walkie Talkie. Great Start!!!

The actual plan was a 11 km trek to Naagamale on the first day and another 15 kms trek to Palar on the second day.

Anyway another boy named Shiva Murthy joined us from the forest side. He was the boy whom the Forest Dept has to send with us from the village to where the money goes. Betterment of a Village. I used to call him Naganna. Jus like that!!!!

We started our trek at 10.30. (wow wat a time to start a trek )




Purchasing Vegetables for our Dinner.


Initially we had to go on a Tar road for around 2 Kms and then comes the hilly cum mud road for around 6 kms. After that comes the steps and route inside a forest with sign boards (to nagamale) for the rest of the way. As soon as we started the climb the steps, we saw an old lady selling Butter Milk. As all of us were tired and sat to have a cup (or 2) to quench our thirst. It seems the lady brings 40 glasses of butter milk everyday and sell it for 2 rs. We all had 2 (or more) cups each and summed to 46 rs. But the interesting part here is that we saw a man sitting next to that lady who was from Legendary Veerappan’s gang. It seems that Karnataka BSF had attacked their territory once and this man was a boy then, they all fled and left the boy alone. The dept people took him to his gang and let him live with them. I tried asking him what he remembers about Veerappan but he said ‘Its more than 10 yrs sir. I was a very small boy then and don’t remember anything.’




Veerappan’s gang’s old member.

Che how unfortunate. I thought he would know about the lakhs and lakhs of treasure which Veerappan has hid in the forest which is yet to be recovered. 




The Sumo Couple. (Subra & Puru) Whenever they see each other, they used to get into this pose. Or may be this was their way showing love to each other.




Puru, Medu (the Chief), Vijay and Subra.

Anyway we continued our trek and reached 1 km before Naagamale at 3pm. There were a few houses built specially for trekkers and the money which we pay reaches even these houses as rent. After reaching there we had Chapatis and rested for another hour. The actual Naagamale was another kilometer (or 2) from there which we started at around 4.30. 3 of them were left behind as they were not in a condition to trek further (Medu, Navi & Ved). There are stone steps and takes another 40 minutes to reach the Temple. Its called by such a name bcoz of 2 stones one beside the other. One in the shape of a Shiva-Linga and another in the shape of a Snake protecting the Linga with its head on top.

We had the darshana and prasada and waited for the Sun Set. Wow it was good.

Getting back to the room took us another 20 mins. We lit a camp fire and surrounded it for heat. There was a discussion (can also be called Argument) between guys from Thomson Reuters, Infosys, Wipro & JP Morgan about their companies and other things.





Hmm I don’t have to explain my photographic skill here. 


At 8 it was Dinner time. We had Rice and Sambar which was most wanted at that time. All of us ate well. (Atleast I did) and slept at around 9.30. The much awaited one.


The morning for most of us happened at 6.30 and after finishing our morning needs (ofcourse not bathing!!!!), we had breakfast (chitranna) and left that place at around 8.30.





Early morn as soon as v started the trek, v stopped to have a cup of Tea.
Sheetal, Medu, Ranga, Pavan, Vijay, Puru, Ved, Subra, Naveen and Kishore (the guy standing wearing a Blue T-shirt). Ramesh is missing in the photo.


For the first 5 kms we were just climbing down the hill (which we had climbed the previous day). After that was a Forest for the rest of the trek. Walk, walk and walk was the only thing. We even met a few villagers who are staying in the jungle and also grazing their cattle.

We had split ourselves into 3 groups depending on the pace. Ofcourse I was in the first group. The group behind us was fortunate to see a Bison. (I thought we were fortunate enough that it didn’t see us, as lone Bison tends to be Dangerous).

We in the first group actually saw a Leopard. It had moved (or Jumped) from a bush to another one. It was so fast that we realized that movement after 4-5 seconds. I went even further in the bushes to see whether I can have a Glimpse but (this time) the animal was fortunate that I couldn’t see it. 




This was kind of a Valley (flowing water) where Veerappan used to hide. They would get to know about any movements in the forest from here.

And again after a bit more of walking we reached a Road and took a left turn to reach the Ultimate Border of Karnataka. There was a stream but v din use it for any purpose bcoz it was too Good.  We rested there for sometime, freshened ourselves up, talked to the Guard over there and left the place after half an hour. We then reached MM hills again head directly to the Free-Lunch Home (Daasoha Bhavana), waited for sometime in the Queue and then got the chance the get in and sat down. Boy!!!!! The food was so HOT. Actually. I burnt my finger tip and served it for a minute. Had a tummy-filling lunch and then atlast headed towards Bangalore at 3.




End of the Trek but waiting for the guide to tel us which way to head towards Palar.

The trek had come to an end but the memories stayed for ever.

I still wonder whether the animal which passed at lightning speed was a Leopard or anything else. Or anybody!!!!! 

See u all with my next work.

Ba Bye…….

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