Climb every mountain

January 8th, 2008  |  Published in India & Around, Living, Sports & Adventure, Travel  |  12 Comments

Climb every moun­tain, search high and low
Fol­low every by way, every path you know
Climb every moun­tain, ford every stream
Fol­low every rain­bow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Every­day of your life, for as long as you live
From the Sound of Music

Spent the new year doing what my mom thinks I should stop doing now — climb­ing moun­tains! Went to the Ban­daje Abbe falls and camped near the stream, a place I’d been ear­lier in March so it was nice to go back again.

The 31st was spent laz­ing around the stream, watch­ing the clouds move across the blue blue sky, cook­ing (okay, that’s a lie, but I did boil some water once!), chat­ting, read­ing and gen­er­ally chill­ing out ~ a nice note to end a nice year.

We had car­ried enough for meals for 2 days and though it was a bit of a ration for every­one, we man­aged quite well. Our assigned cook was feel­ing a lit­tle unwell so every­one took turns to pre­pare MTR meals, tea, cof­fee, pul­li­ogre rice, upma and other such delights. Cook­ing on the fire is quite chal­leng­ing and takes quite a bit of time, but of that we had plenty.

Near the falls, is a nice sun­set point and we enjoyed sit­ting out and watch­ing the twi­light colours paint the sky above us as the year came to a close.

Watch­ing the sun go down. Taken on my last trip to Bandaje.

On the 1st we were back on the road, climb­ing upwards again. The hike to the falls is rel­a­tively easy as it’s mostly down­hill. One way to get back is via the Mundaje Abbe vil­lage which is down­hill through for­est cover all the way from the falls.

But if you’re return­ing the same way (which we had to since we’d parked our vehi­cle at an estate at the start of the trek) it’s a lit­tle tougher. There are a few steep hills you need to climb, espe­cially the one right after you emerge from the falls and there is no path as such so you pretty much carve your own.

I must add that this trek shouldn’t be attempted with­out one per­son who knows the route as peo­ple have been known to lose their way.

We started around 10 am and only reached the top at around noon. From there, it’s a rel­a­tively easy walk again through for­est areas and another few kms walk to the estate.

A nice relaxed way to her­ald the new year.

Responses

1. Aqua says:
   

   January 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm (#)

   I get tired just read­ing your posts on your trav­els and climb­ing moutains. *climb every moun­tain* (in a high pitched soprano female voice)

   where do you get the energy from madyum??? pls to bot­tle it and sell it.

2. Anita says:
   

   January 8th, 2008 at 3:14 pm (#)

   @ aqua: hehe. okay madam :) next time, i am going to a beach and will just sit there doing noth­ing for 4 whole days! enough of moun­tains, i say :)

3. Sukanya Bora says:
   

   January 9th, 2008 at 12:22 am (#)

   I envy you, Anita!

   What lovely pic­tures, as usual. Have you ever con­sid­ered com­pil­ing them into a book, maybe a cof­fee table book? It will sell like hot cakes!!!

4. Anita says:
   

   January 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm (#)

   sukanya: thanks for the encour­age­ment!! i hope you buy a copy when i come out with it? :)

5. Sukanya Bora says:
   

   January 9th, 2008 at 7:09 pm (#)

   I most def­i­nitely will!will look for­ward to it!

6. Radman says:
   

   January 9th, 2008 at 9:38 pm (#)

   i guess you believe in fairy tales and rain­bows too.…..

7. Usha says:
   

   January 12th, 2008 at 4:23 pm (#)

   Hm and you nevvvvvvver take ‚e to any of these places…
   Lovely pics!

8. mohana says:
   

   January 12th, 2008 at 5:26 pm (#)

   hey mamon,

   lovely pics. i agree with Sukanya Bora, i think you should com­pile all your trav­el­ogues and pics and pub­lish a book. ban­ga­lore has done you so much good.

9. vishesh says:
   

   January 13th, 2008 at 10:13 am (#)

   ha amaz­ing blog…came here through mutiny.in.…..

   the pics are breath tak­ing and well you can never describe pics i guess :)

10. Anita says:
    

    January 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm (#)

    @ sukanya: thank you!

    @ rad­man: yeah, i believe in everything :)

    @ usha: hey, you don’t even come to my place which is stone’s throw away, where you will come hun­dreds of kms away? ;)

    @ mohana: thank you dearie!!

    @ vishesh: thanks!

11. Hari Kiran says:
    

    January 22nd, 2008 at 7:35 pm (#)

    Nice pics there :)
    keep up the good work
    and happy travelling.

    Regards,
    Hari

12. pensativo says:
    

    January 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm (#)

    Cool trav­el­ogue :)..
    You have got a really nice blog out here …

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