Trek and Hike

Suddenly on a weekend you feel you should take your sweat out and you search for places in net. And your search on google will be something like "Best trekking places in Bangalore" or "Top Trekking places near Bangalore" etc. And the intelligent google gives you hundreds of links and pushes you again into deep confusion. To help someone who searches for a quick list, here I provide the list. Click it and more info inside..!!!

	Meghane Trek This time my Visit was to one of the most beautiful belt in entire country and a bio diversity hot spot – Western Ghat’s Malenadu (‘Malenadu’ - A portion of Western Ghat which covers portions of Belgaum, Shimoga, Chikamangalore, Uttara Kannada, Kodagu ........
	Kumaraparvatha - Near Kukke Subrahmanya If you say you are a trekking enthusiast, the first question you get from one is - "Did you climb Kumaraparvatha?" and I should say, I kind of got addicted to trekking just because of Kumaraparvatha. It was my very second trekking way back in my ........
	Kodachadri Trek Kodachadri aka Mugilu Pete aka Kutachadri aka Heaven on earth ! Kodachadri is one of those peaks in Karnataka which was rated to be in top 3 peaks of Karnataka by 'Jnana peeta' awardee and the vivid traveller ........
	Dudhsagar - Belgaum Belgaum is one of the most beautiful district in Karnataka with an ideal weather and scenic values. It falls under Malnad area and has some mind blowing scenic ghat sections and forests........
	Madhugiri Fort Trek Madhugiri is one of those places which provide a true trekking experience and aslso enough opportunities for rock climbing etc........
	SavanDurga Trek Saavandurga is said to be the largest Monolith in Asia (Wiki) and if you are hiking the place, you can always be proud that you have trekked to the top of the largest monolith in Asia........
	Antharagange Trek and Caves This was my first ever trek after coming to bangalore and after getting into a busy work life. As any firsts, this first also remains a special one forever. I had just 2 previous trekking experience and .........
	Siddara Betta Trek As the name says, it’s said to be hill of Saints. It’s believed that, hundreds of saints performed meditation in the hill. It’s a shrine and hundreds of piligrims climb the hill bare foot here. Climbing the hill is not a big deal, there is a shivalinga on Hill top........
	Shivagange Trek Hundreds of people come to the place daily and climb here and hence I cant really call it a trekking place. You can call it a trekking place since you get enough to hike.
	Raamanagara Betta / Rama Devara Betta Ramanagara or Rama devara Betta is one of the most famous hill in entire country because of the movie whose record is yet to be broken – The Sholey........
	Raagalli Betta Trek Raagalli Betta is one of those dangerous hills which have come in news quite some time. It was just 2 months after our visit to the hill, we learnt from the news that an engineer was killed by elephant attack.! So, I am not........
	RanganathaSwamy Betta Searching for an ideal trek near Bangalore? Then, this is one of them which gives you the feel of trek. As any Weekend, on 18-02-2012 I was searching for some trekking place, and read about Ranganathaswamy betta in some blog. Some quick call to a few of friends........
	KabbaliDurga Trek After a long gap of more than 2 months, I badly wanted a trek and just checked my list of ‘To be visited’ places and found this one as the best for the day........
	MakliDurga Trek One of the most economical trek I have ever been! Thanks to Indian railways for cheapest fare between any places! Maklidurga is around 60 Kms from Bangalore and provides not so great but a decent trekking experience. The view is just normal if you have been to treks ........
	Gadaikallu Trek My First trekking experience way back in 2009 and I am writing about it in 2014.! I don't need to dig into memory to recall all that happened in the trek but definitely need to dig into my HDD for the photos. :) In our entire group none of them had a camera and the best camera was a 2MP camera in.........
	Didupe Falls and Ermai Falls "Hittala gida maddalla" is a famous saying in Kannada - Meaning we never value what is available in our own garden. Very true..!! It took 24 years for me to visit this place in spite of it being so beautiful and so close to my place. Hardly 40 kms from my Home..!!.........
	Sita Falls / Kudlu Theertha If you are searching for places around Udupi or Manipal then this is one of the best for a day out. It was when I was doing my Masters in Manipal University when we had a long gap between exams and nothing to do, we decided to go Sita falls which is a near by place. It was in long time .........
	KavaleDurga Fort Trek Yet another solo trek of my trekking life..!!! Its always exciting to trek alone than travelling alone. People ask me "doesn't it bore you to trek alone". How would it bore you when all ........