Hi Buddies,
This time it is all about my travel to Velyangiri Temple (Shiva temple famous for trekking). I got to know about this place from my Senior. Also I would like to highlight that I visited the same place in 2016 too. To get all the back ground information about this I am in a situation to take you guys to the year 2014.
As in everybody's life I used to go for lunch with my friends (included seniors). One fine day while having a lunch one of senior initiated the travel plan to Velyangiri. Once he said I agreed because till that time that would be my first trekking in my life. As in every gang we had all the results as yes, no and I have to think about it.
After a week we decided that we will start our journey on May 31st Saturday. I informed about this trekking to my parents, my father said that he had a plan to visit that place but he didn't get the time or company to do that. So he encouraged me. After that conversation I had wish in my mind that how tough the journey could be but I have to reach the top. Morning 5:00 AM I got up on the trip day and started my home. We reached the temple by 9:30 AM with lunch (we heard that we will never get anything in hills during trekking) and snacks. We started our journey around 10:15 AM. As they said the first hill was the toughest one, we (myself, my friend, My Senior and his cousin) spent almost two hours in climbing. Also I want to tell that two people who started with us one of my friend and friend's brother dropped the plan because they terribly tired.
On top of the luggage we had a big work in one hand we have to carry the bamboo sticks which they are giving and in other hand we had a water bottle. We accumulated all the lunch parcel in to a single bag. and I was the one who was holding that bag (nan lam eruthae perusu ithula ithu veraya nu mind voice). I managed to with that bag for little distance and I was not able to continue that. Then all of us agreed that we will carry that bag in round robin method. After reaching the first hill we found a Vinayagar temple. Also we found a small shop where they were selling Lemon juice, glucose and few snacks (Mind Voice: Evan da sonathu inga onumae kidaikathu nu :'( )
We took a rest for 15 minutes there (athuku munadiyae oru 10 break nan mattum eduthu irrupen) and also had a lemon juice. Started our journey again, they said only first hill will be a difficult one before starting to the second hill I taught that we crossed the toughest one so we an cross all other six hills ASAP. I think the time was around 11;50 when we started from our first hill. We could have travelled for 30 minutes. We saw one gang of people was coming down, I enquired with them as below
Me: Can we reach the top with in next two hours?
Other side : Is this the first time for you guys?
Me: S
OS: Then you guys will reach by 6 or 7 depends on your speed.
Me: sssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhh (adan goyallae inum evalo thuram da irruku)
Me: When you people started the journey (Nan than puthisalli nu nenaichutu)?
OS: We started by 2'o Clock in the early morning.
Me: Thank you (ithuku mela ethavathu keta nan era maten)
After that small chit chat with strangers we started again and we had a discussion again when we are going to have lunch (sooru mukiyam ila enaala bag weight thanga mudiyala). My senior understood that and he took the bag away from me (happa aanadava ena oru nalla senior ha kuduthu irruka). In the middle of the way they said we will get a water here from Sunnai (Thanna thani vanthutae irrunthatthu). Initially I was thinking that we don't from where this water is coming and also I had a 2 litre water bottle in my hand. My senior an Friend tasted that water and they said that water was so thirsty and so cool too. Okay let me know change my words this time and enjoy the taste of that water, really that was a awesome water in taste and temperature. We decided that after crossing the second hill we will have our lunch around 2 we reached the end of second hill and there we saw a big stone which has a writing on it as Shiva Shiva.
We started our journey again towards third hill completion (dey lunch epo da). In other thirty minutes we had a lunch and good rest. After lunch I was like a Popye who had a spinach. I climbed faster than others, at last by 2:30 PM we crossed three hills.We saw a one more sunnai in that hill which is name as "Kaithati Sunnai" if we clap our hands near to that the water will come with some extra force. I tested that many times and didn't find out why it is coming with bit extra force when clap. Now, fourth hill was bit flatter when compared to the all previous hills (Like theory paper in the sem where we had a subjects like M3, PQT etc). I didn't remember exactly but nothing would have happened much in 4 and 5 hill other than my enquiry with strangers as how long we have to travel to complete this hill.
Before starting 6th hill they said this hill be declined so we have to very careful (ivalo neerama ithaeyae thana hill number mattum mathi mathi soninga ipo inum oru vaartha extra declined). But really I faced a true challenge in that 6th hill. It was very difficult one I got tired easily. At the end of the 6 hill we saw a water place kind of kuttai in our local area. I was happy that we have to take bath there in the happiness I got down in the water and I realized that I was not in to normal water it was ice water. It took 10 minutes to get back to normal and after that we enjoyed bathing there. We started our journey towards 7 and final hill which was perpendicular to 6th. Not only perpendicular it was covered by cloud's.
After had a bath I wiped myself to dry and started towards 7th in other ten minutes I was drenched like anything. Because of clouds around there. We would have walked for 30 mins after that we are not able to see anybody coming from the hill and going toward the hill because of the place was too cloudy. I got scared like anything that are we going in the right path? Also I will agree that literally I cried because all of us are not sure whether we are going in a correct path. I started towards praying god, I have to full fill my father's dream, help me to reach the top. Also at the same my senior got injured and he had a sprain in his right leg he said he want to take some rest. At the same time I was so scared to stay there because no is around us and on top of that we are running out of time. It was evening 5:45 PM and also we are not sure how long we can go back with the small torch we had with us. I started shouting at him with the madness. He was really a good and calm person he understood my pain at that time. He started walking and consoled me by saying see we are able to see some snacks paper like chocolate cover and few other covers those are indicating that we are moving in a correct direction. As he said in 15 minutes we reached top hill. After seeing the god I don't know what happened to me tears rolled out of eyes automatically (the same happened for me when I visited Tanjore temple for the first time). I was happy that I did this for my Father.
We stayed in top hill for half an hour and asked then is there any place to stay there? But they said it is not recommended to stay there because we didn't had any bed sheets or tent. Also they said it will be difficult for you guys to withstand this temperature. I saw my senior (avar ena da enaku vantha sothani ivana en kutitu vanthom nae nenaichu irrupar) after that we decide to start back. Started from there by 6:30 PM also it was the time that sky started to fade. By 7:00 PM we reached the bottom of the 7th and bought two small torch that helped us to keep moving.
We would have crossed half of the 6th again my senior got the pain in his leg. He wanted to take some rest and we waited there for few minutes as time is passing too fast I lost my control. Again I pushed him to the situation to start again. Also note that I was in a second position one man in front me holding the torch and last person is also holding the torch. Something blocked our torch light I had big heart attack at that moment some animal (porathuku munadiyae sonanga anga Elephant, Kaatu nai, fox appram silla pala animal lam irrukum nu) is there but we saw a man without shirt is climbing the hill (dei enga irrunthu da varinga enaku torch vachutu porathae kastam irruku nee epadi da onumae ilama athum mela pora nenaichen). After that Man my friend gave me us a jerk saying he saw some animal crossed in front of us. So stood in the same place for 15 minutes and started again. Somehow when we are about to reach the bottom of the 5th we noticed that there was huge electric lamp. We reached there and explained our situation to that small shop guys.
He was a good man, he showed a small hut and allowed us to stay there. He prepared some camp fire in t one corner of the hut. Also he warned us to be careful because snake or few reptiles will be there. We were scared and discussed about the travel's highlighted moments. We got few biscuit packets from them and completed our dinner around 9:30 PM. My senior slept well in the tired after hearing that shop owner words how I will get a sleep at that place, but somehow I slept. They woke me up in the morning 5:30 AM and again we started by 6:00 AM in the morning. We had a few good pics on the way down. But I had heavy pain in my leg so we were very slow while going down around 9:30 in the morning we successfully completed our trip.
Note: Before going for any trip please enquire with the experience people and get all mandatory things for the trip.
This time it is all about my travel to Velyangiri Temple (Shiva temple famous for trekking). I got to know about this place from my Senior. Also I would like to highlight that I visited the same place in 2016 too. To get all the back ground information about this I am in a situation to take you guys to the year 2014.
As in everybody's life I used to go for lunch with my friends (included seniors). One fine day while having a lunch one of senior initiated the travel plan to Velyangiri. Once he said I agreed because till that time that would be my first trekking in my life. As in every gang we had all the results as yes, no and I have to think about it.
After a week we decided that we will start our journey on May 31st Saturday. I informed about this trekking to my parents, my father said that he had a plan to visit that place but he didn't get the time or company to do that. So he encouraged me. After that conversation I had wish in my mind that how tough the journey could be but I have to reach the top. Morning 5:00 AM I got up on the trip day and started my home. We reached the temple by 9:30 AM with lunch (we heard that we will never get anything in hills during trekking) and snacks. We started our journey around 10:15 AM. As they said the first hill was the toughest one, we (myself, my friend, My Senior and his cousin) spent almost two hours in climbing. Also I want to tell that two people who started with us one of my friend and friend's brother dropped the plan because they terribly tired.
In first hill
On top of the luggage we had a big work in one hand we have to carry the bamboo sticks which they are giving and in other hand we had a water bottle. We accumulated all the lunch parcel in to a single bag. and I was the one who was holding that bag (nan lam eruthae perusu ithula ithu veraya nu mind voice). I managed to with that bag for little distance and I was not able to continue that. Then all of us agreed that we will carry that bag in round robin method. After reaching the first hill we found a Vinayagar temple. Also we found a small shop where they were selling Lemon juice, glucose and few snacks (Mind Voice: Evan da sonathu inga onumae kidaikathu nu :'( )
We took a rest for 15 minutes there (athuku munadiyae oru 10 break nan mattum eduthu irrupen) and also had a lemon juice. Started our journey again, they said only first hill will be a difficult one before starting to the second hill I taught that we crossed the toughest one so we an cross all other six hills ASAP. I think the time was around 11;50 when we started from our first hill. We could have travelled for 30 minutes. We saw one gang of people was coming down, I enquired with them as below
Me: Can we reach the top with in next two hours?
Other side : Is this the first time for you guys?
Me: S
OS: Then you guys will reach by 6 or 7 depends on your speed.
Me: sssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhh (adan goyallae inum evalo thuram da irruku)
Me: When you people started the journey (Nan than puthisalli nu nenaichutu)?
OS: We started by 2'o Clock in the early morning.
Me: Thank you (ithuku mela ethavathu keta nan era maten)
After that small chit chat with strangers we started again and we had a discussion again when we are going to have lunch (sooru mukiyam ila enaala bag weight thanga mudiyala). My senior understood that and he took the bag away from me (happa aanadava ena oru nalla senior ha kuduthu irruka). In the middle of the way they said we will get a water here from Sunnai (Thanna thani vanthutae irrunthatthu). Initially I was thinking that we don't from where this water is coming and also I had a 2 litre water bottle in my hand. My senior an Friend tasted that water and they said that water was so thirsty and so cool too. Okay let me know change my words this time and enjoy the taste of that water, really that was a awesome water in taste and temperature. We decided that after crossing the second hill we will have our lunch around 2 we reached the end of second hill and there we saw a big stone which has a writing on it as Shiva Shiva.
We started our journey again towards third hill completion (dey lunch epo da). In other thirty minutes we had a lunch and good rest. After lunch I was like a Popye who had a spinach. I climbed faster than others, at last by 2:30 PM we crossed three hills.We saw a one more sunnai in that hill which is name as "Kaithati Sunnai" if we clap our hands near to that the water will come with some extra force. I tested that many times and didn't find out why it is coming with bit extra force when clap. Now, fourth hill was bit flatter when compared to the all previous hills (Like theory paper in the sem where we had a subjects like M3, PQT etc). I didn't remember exactly but nothing would have happened much in 4 and 5 hill other than my enquiry with strangers as how long we have to travel to complete this hill.
After Lunch
In Fourth hill
Before starting 6th hill they said this hill be declined so we have to very careful (ivalo neerama ithaeyae thana hill number mattum mathi mathi soninga ipo inum oru vaartha extra declined). But really I faced a true challenge in that 6th hill. It was very difficult one I got tired easily. At the end of the 6 hill we saw a water place kind of kuttai in our local area. I was happy that we have to take bath there in the happiness I got down in the water and I realized that I was not in to normal water it was ice water. It took 10 minutes to get back to normal and after that we enjoyed bathing there. We started our journey towards 7 and final hill which was perpendicular to 6th. Not only perpendicular it was covered by cloud's.
Starting of 7th Hill
After had a bath I wiped myself to dry and started towards 7th in other ten minutes I was drenched like anything. Because of clouds around there. We would have walked for 30 mins after that we are not able to see anybody coming from the hill and going toward the hill because of the place was too cloudy. I got scared like anything that are we going in the right path? Also I will agree that literally I cried because all of us are not sure whether we are going in a correct path. I started towards praying god, I have to full fill my father's dream, help me to reach the top. Also at the same my senior got injured and he had a sprain in his right leg he said he want to take some rest. At the same time I was so scared to stay there because no is around us and on top of that we are running out of time. It was evening 5:45 PM and also we are not sure how long we can go back with the small torch we had with us. I started shouting at him with the madness. He was really a good and calm person he understood my pain at that time. He started walking and consoled me by saying see we are able to see some snacks paper like chocolate cover and few other covers those are indicating that we are moving in a correct direction. As he said in 15 minutes we reached top hill. After seeing the god I don't know what happened to me tears rolled out of eyes automatically (the same happened for me when I visited Tanjore temple for the first time). I was happy that I did this for my Father.
Top most hill
We stayed in top hill for half an hour and asked then is there any place to stay there? But they said it is not recommended to stay there because we didn't had any bed sheets or tent. Also they said it will be difficult for you guys to withstand this temperature. I saw my senior (avar ena da enaku vantha sothani ivana en kutitu vanthom nae nenaichu irrupar) after that we decide to start back. Started from there by 6:30 PM also it was the time that sky started to fade. By 7:00 PM we reached the bottom of the 7th and bought two small torch that helped us to keep moving.
We would have crossed half of the 6th again my senior got the pain in his leg. He wanted to take some rest and we waited there for few minutes as time is passing too fast I lost my control. Again I pushed him to the situation to start again. Also note that I was in a second position one man in front me holding the torch and last person is also holding the torch. Something blocked our torch light I had big heart attack at that moment some animal (porathuku munadiyae sonanga anga Elephant, Kaatu nai, fox appram silla pala animal lam irrukum nu) is there but we saw a man without shirt is climbing the hill (dei enga irrunthu da varinga enaku torch vachutu porathae kastam irruku nee epadi da onumae ilama athum mela pora nenaichen). After that Man my friend gave me us a jerk saying he saw some animal crossed in front of us. So stood in the same place for 15 minutes and started again. Somehow when we are about to reach the bottom of the 5th we noticed that there was huge electric lamp. We reached there and explained our situation to that small shop guys.
Mini Camp Fire
He was a good man, he showed a small hut and allowed us to stay there. He prepared some camp fire in t one corner of the hut. Also he warned us to be careful because snake or few reptiles will be there. We were scared and discussed about the travel's highlighted moments. We got few biscuit packets from them and completed our dinner around 9:30 PM. My senior slept well in the tired after hearing that shop owner words how I will get a sleep at that place, but somehow I slept. They woke me up in the morning 5:30 AM and again we started by 6:00 AM in the morning. We had a few good pics on the way down. But I had heavy pain in my leg so we were very slow while going down around 9:30 in the morning we successfully completed our trip.
Few Pics on the way back
Note: Before going for any trip please enquire with the experience people and get all mandatory things for the trip.
The way you narrated your trekking experience awesome
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