Kodachadri trekk

date-5/11/2010

After months of planning we finally were ready for a adventure,which turned out to be very different experience.
It was a three day trip.we were 4, so Indica was the only choice(efficient).
Kodachadri is around 450 km from bangalore.
we left our place by friday night 11pm, we didnt know that driver was totally unaware of the route.
It was a very long n hectic journey so one has to accompany the driver in the journey, taking breaks @regular intervals.
All the way my GPS phone came handy, even in dense forests it was working fine..thanks to google:)

finally we reached Kodachdri gate by 11am.
there are many starting points for the trekk. I would not suggest the one on jeep track coz you will loose all the fun,but the safest route uphill.
 Sampekette :-It�s around 1.15 hrs before Kollur,may be this route somewhere connects the route from Gowrikerre or may go via Gowrikerre itself


 Gowrikerre:- This is the place were there is a left deviation to Kodachadri , its approximately 3 kms before Nittur also called as Kodachadri cross, this is the only motor-able road up to the kodachadri temple it�s 15 odd kms from the main road half of the road is tar road & the other half is a mud road. Also one can go to Hidlumanne falls from here, for this one has to walk approx for 1.5 kms from the main road to get a school @ your left ,here take a mud road to your right this road leads u to Yemmehonda junction(here this road meets the approach road from Marakuttaka)

 Marakuttaka:- Get down at Sigundur cross 3.5 kms after Nittur again trek back towards Nittur for 1 kms, just before the bridge, at your right u get Marakuttaka bus stop follow the mud road to reach Kodachadri via Hidlumanne falls

 Karrakette: - This is approx 1.5 kms after Sigundur cross towards Kollur. Take left from karrakette which goes via Valur it�s roughly 9-10 kms to the temple, up to Valur it�s motor-able road from there a narrow trail uphill, Valur to temple it�s 1hr ascend. One can even go to Arshinagundi falls from Valur but only with an local guide.


one must have shoes to start the trekk. we started the trekk by 12 pm..it was the jeep track which was quite easy at the beginning. there were many streams on the way..one can see the grass lands at the top of the hills which streaches quite a long distance.


after some 2 hours of the trekk, we were almost at the starting of the grass lands..do carry lots of water bottles, fruits are a must nothing can boost like them.
the best season to trekk would be winter, in rainy season there will be leeches, in summer u will loose the greenish grass lands.


we were quite amazed to enter the grass lands.. u can feel the coldness getting colder thats nothing but the clouds..:) we had no idea about it..

at one stage u will only see grass all around u..its amazing experience n awesome to feel. barely we could see the road..
finally we reached staying place..