Best part of the trek

Just back from Sharavathi valley after a two-day adventurous exploratory trek, from Kanoor to Nagavalli. Though Kanoor – Doctor mane (Doctor’s house) – Kanoor Kote (Kanoor Fort) is a known explored trek path, we kept Kanoor as starting point and end point Nagavalli via Doctor’s house & decided to explore a new route with the help of Ganapati of Sharavathi Adventure Trails.

If you ask me which was the best moment of the trek, it’s very difficult to pick one from the below list –

• Travelling in a luggage carrier for 10+ KMs after a bus journey of 10 hours
• Getting scratched by thorns as we trek. And you look ahead to find no path, all you can see is thorny bushes
• You come across a stream after 4 hours of trek or rather say exploration, and jump into it immediately
• Lunch is ready & served, you are hungry, but you can’t eat because it’s steaming hot 🙂
• Everyone volunteers to help for preparing dinner. Menu: Chapathis, Rice, Sambar and Hesaru bELe paayasa
• No lights around, and you have a moonlight dinner
• After a sumptuous dinner, you go on a night trek for a KM
• And to top it all, journey of 40KMs sitting/lying down on the bus top
• You duck/bend every time when someone shouts to avoid tree branches and electric wires