T0 : Kudajadiri, Kollur
Started : Friday night 8 pm
Reached back: Sunday night 9pm
Month : April first week
There are a number of blogs which narrates trips to kudajadiri. So Why yet another one ? Perhaps that was the thought which was stopping me from writing about one of the best trips I ever had in my life. But still I am putting it down, since this was one of a kind experience .
By sheer accident, everything went perfect for us. We got down at the right place, we had the best host and met with the best guide .
We started off from bangalore at around 8 pm.It was a nice journey of abt 11 hrs to kudajadiri. As the destination approached, places started to become highly uninhabited , and smog started to hinder our drive. Altogether it was a mystic ambiance around.
But still we managed to reach there by around 7 am. After having made enough research , we had planned to stop at Nittur. But luckily our driver took us to a place called Kattinahole where the normal road ends.The peak Kudajadiri is abt 9 km from Kattinahole. You will have to either trek or hire a jeep from here.
There is a small shop at Kattinahole attached to a house. And the family who stays there takes care of anything and everything the travelers want, for a very nominal rate. Actually it was them who made our trip a unique one. We took a bath from a nearby stream and got our preliminaries done at their house. After a small breakfast, we started off. We had decided that we would trek uphill and while coming down we would hire a jeep , so that we could enjoy the best of both . They arranged a guide for us , a quiet young man who took care of us in the next two days. And what followed was beyond words. (We wanted to trek through the forest and not the normal route , else we could have done without the guide. But an extremely breathtaking waterfall(Hidlumane fall) was on the route through the forest and hence a guide was essential)
Let pictures speak from here.....
