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After a failed plan to revisit Savandurga(I've posted pics earlier) last weekend due to people pulling out at the last moment, I decided to go on another one of my whimsical trips; looked up a random group on meetup and followed them for a two day trek to the Thirumaleguppi & the Hirumareguppi peaks. Admittedly, I didn't know much about the place or even which state it was in, but I had more fun on this trek than I've ever had, both because of the sense of solitude you get at the place and because of the super cool group I was with, dumb-charades were never this fun! Also this was the only trek where I had a lot of photographs of mine thanks to another fellow photo-trekker.
After an eight hours long bus ride and then another couple in a Jeep on muddy terrains, you reach this amazing place with lush green flora all around you. The trek route was very literally a slippery slope with all the mud, made even worse by the algae on the road, and the trees everywhere leaving us little room for a proper grip:
#1. Slippery slopes
#2. Tread lightly
Just about everyone, including me, had their share of falls and injuries, but it was all good as the leeches there were very welcoming, always reassuring us with their ever-close presence and periodically sucking a little blood out to help relieve any increase in Blood pressure!
Here's a fellow trekker shaking hands with Tom:
#3. Shaking hands with Tom
#4. Tom trying to trek along us!
#5. Tom, waving us goodbye..
The greatest part of the trek was the rain, coupled with the extreme wind it made our trek really difficult and extremely fun simultaneously! We trekked through the torrential rain that penetrated my heavy raincoat to dampen my camera gear, winds that made human pendulums out of us and shifting fogs all around us that made us lose sight of of our team all the time.
#5. In the wind & the rain
#6. In the wind & the rain (credits: Mani, my fellow photo-trekker)
It wasn't all fun though, I lost one of my lenses (The sigma 24-70 TPF edition, sorry
) and all my shots in one of the cards to the extreme weather while trying to take a long exposure of the waterfalls on Day 1. Surprisingly my trusty Point and shoot survived and was still going strong on day two. Oh, and somehow the waterfall pic that I was taking was written to the second card, I know I should have done better but it was very difficult to stand against the current and the rain didn't make it any easier, here it is:
#8. The waterfall
#9. Downstreams with my P&S
And the best was yet to come, once the rain died down the landscapes were almost from the set of the Jurassic world and I was starting to miss having my wide angle lens, but you have to use the tools that you have right:
#10. Welcome to Jurassic World:
#11. A panaroma of the magnificent beauty:
#12. Define Green!
#13. Paradise on Earth
#14. View on top of the Thirrumaleguppi Peak
I simply don't think that it's possible to have more fun than I had with this group:
#14. We shared experiences, age no bound:
stopped whenever we liked to look around and let the nature seep in, spotted a hive of mountain bees hanging from a cliff, heard the odd peacock singing from deep within the jungles, spotted a lot of unique birds and even photographed a few:
#15. Malabar Parakeet ( I was very lucky to have spotted him)
#16. Orange minivet
And thanks to my sneaky photo-trekker, had a few memorable photographs of mine as well:
#17. Among the elements
The Tranquility all along the journey was simply ineffable!
After an eight hours long bus ride and then another couple in a Jeep on muddy terrains, you reach this amazing place with lush green flora all around you. The trek route was very literally a slippery slope with all the mud, made even worse by the algae on the road, and the trees everywhere leaving us little room for a proper grip:
#1. Slippery slopes
#2. Tread lightly
Just about everyone, including me, had their share of falls and injuries, but it was all good as the leeches there were very welcoming, always reassuring us with their ever-close presence and periodically sucking a little blood out to help relieve any increase in Blood pressure!
Here's a fellow trekker shaking hands with Tom:
#3. Shaking hands with Tom
#4. Tom trying to trek along us!
#5. Tom, waving us goodbye..
The greatest part of the trek was the rain, coupled with the extreme wind it made our trek really difficult and extremely fun simultaneously! We trekked through the torrential rain that penetrated my heavy raincoat to dampen my camera gear, winds that made human pendulums out of us and shifting fogs all around us that made us lose sight of of our team all the time.
#5. In the wind & the rain
#6. In the wind & the rain (credits: Mani, my fellow photo-trekker)
It wasn't all fun though, I lost one of my lenses (The sigma 24-70 TPF edition, sorry
) and all my shots in one of the cards to the extreme weather while trying to take a long exposure of the waterfalls on Day 1. Surprisingly my trusty Point and shoot survived and was still going strong on day two. Oh, and somehow the waterfall pic that I was taking was written to the second card, I know I should have done better but it was very difficult to stand against the current and the rain didn't make it any easier, here it is:#8. The waterfall
#9. Downstreams with my P&S
And the best was yet to come, once the rain died down the landscapes were almost from the set of the Jurassic world and I was starting to miss having my wide angle lens, but you have to use the tools that you have right:
#10. Welcome to Jurassic World:
#11. A panaroma of the magnificent beauty:
#12. Define Green!
#13. Paradise on Earth
#14. View on top of the Thirrumaleguppi Peak
I simply don't think that it's possible to have more fun than I had with this group:
#14. We shared experiences, age no bound:
stopped whenever we liked to look around and let the nature seep in, spotted a hive of mountain bees hanging from a cliff, heard the odd peacock singing from deep within the jungles, spotted a lot of unique birds and even photographed a few:
#15. Malabar Parakeet ( I was very lucky to have spotted him)
#16. Orange minivet
And thanks to my sneaky photo-trekker, had a few memorable photographs of mine as well:
#17. Among the elements
The Tranquility all along the journey was simply ineffable!
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