Trek to siddara betta ...
From our team in office, we had been to trek this week to Siddara betta near tumkur.
It was amazing experience, starting from steps we trekked rocks, bushes n caves to hike till the hill top!! I was surprised even i made it till the top, though i had given up in the first 15mins itself and was pulled by others to continue ;) Am glad i continued challenging myself... After we cover some half way we get a temple inside a cave and there is some medicinal water coming out of a small area. Its some ritual, where they will make you sit and pour out 3 buckets of water on you continuously!! My god, it will be such a chilling water. After a tiring trek for one hour, this was heavenly :) And then we continued our journey with water dripping from our clothes into the caves.
The caves are vast and for almost an hour we had to crawl, jump and cross across the tough routes in between the rocks. That was the best part!!! It was dark and suddenly we used to get surprises like small lovely water streams, the natural swings formed of tree creepers, small rays of sunlight penetrating from holes between the rocks etc...
After the caves was trekking to the hilltop for another half an hour. Since we were so exhausted, some of us were cribbing why shud we go till the top just to see some big rock. But after we reached there is when I realized the beauty of it. Vast rock, calm breeze, experience of that solitude even when in group, exotic views!!! You just have to lie down there on the plain rocks and stare at the sky!! :)
It was amazing experience, starting from steps we trekked rocks, bushes n caves to hike till the hill top!! I was surprised even i made it till the top, though i had given up in the first 15mins itself and was pulled by others to continue ;) Am glad i continued challenging myself... After we cover some half way we get a temple inside a cave and there is some medicinal water coming out of a small area. Its some ritual, where they will make you sit and pour out 3 buckets of water on you continuously!! My god, it will be such a chilling water. After a tiring trek for one hour, this was heavenly :) And then we continued our journey with water dripping from our clothes into the caves.
The caves are vast and for almost an hour we had to crawl, jump and cross across the tough routes in between the rocks. That was the best part!!! It was dark and suddenly we used to get surprises like small lovely water streams, the natural swings formed of tree creepers, small rays of sunlight penetrating from holes between the rocks etc...
After the caves was trekking to the hilltop for another half an hour. Since we were so exhausted, some of us were cribbing why shud we go till the top just to see some big rock. But after we reached there is when I realized the beauty of it. Vast rock, calm breeze, experience of that solitude even when in group, exotic views!!! You just have to lie down there on the plain rocks and stare at the sky!! :)