The famous railway track between sakleshpur and kukke subramanya road along the western ghats is popularly known as Greenroute. This route is even considered as trekkers paradise. The route is approximately 50 km. This track has more than 65 tunnels and bridges varying from 900 meters to 100 meters. This is also one of the most beautiful route with full of greenery, mountains, landscapes and flowing rivers. The birds singing sounds, leaves fluttering, cool breeze increase the awesomeness of the paradise route.
We decided to go on to this trek during monsoon, Generally its not advisable to trek in western ghats during monsoons because of heavy rains and leeches. Initially there was huge opposition for this among ourselves, finally we decided to go.
Its time to pack the bags and move on to the trek. We carried sleeping bags, food and other important things which is necessary for this trek.Some details on the stuff we carried:
Trek Gear: Trekking shoes/Walking shoes, sleeping bags, Torch, Whistles, Umbrellas, Jackets etc..
Food stuff: Loads of Chapathis packed ( around 150), Fruits, Rice, utensils for coo
king, Diesel, Knives, Glucose etc...
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We could not book the bus tickets in advance as we planned it very late, and also it was holiday season. But luckily we got a bus from Bangalore bus station (Friday 10:30 PM) with enough empty seats. The conductor gets a rightful hang of what we guys were upto and even before we tel him where to go, he tells us that he would make arrangements to stop there ( the source of the trek starts 9 kms away from the bus stop). We were all excited and the journey started. We reached the place (Donigal station) by around 4: 30 in the morning of Saturday.
We waited for the sunrise as we prepared ourselves for the trek. It was around 5 30 in the morning and it was time for us to begin the trek. The trek is mainly along the sleepers between the rails and initially sounded very comfortable and all of us were really confident of finishing our target of 20 kms to a station called Yedakumari.But later is when we realized that there were stones all around the sleepers which made our trek a hell with all sorts of pain around the legs.
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The tunnels very bit scary as there was enough light inside, initially we had a fear of what happens if a train comes while we are in tunnel. But as the trek progressed we realized that there is enough space in sides of the track to stand. Walking on bridges was smooth as it had plates in between. Indian railways opened this track after gauge conversions recently because of this all the bridges are completed, this made the trek relatively easier. We halted at Yedakumari station, prepared our dinner and had a nice sleep. The next day we started out trek to reach our destination. Saturday weather was cloudy so did not feel the strain so much, but on Sunday it was the bit sunny which made our journey a bit difficult. At last we reached the Kukke subramanya , to catch back bus to Bangalore, Hard to end a such wonderful journey in the nature.
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