Trek to Kailasagiri – Chintamani

Kailasagiri hill is famous for its cave temple of Lord Shiva, it is one of the weekend gateways around Bengaluru.  This place is around 85Kms away from Bengaluru, nearest town is Chintamani.

My previous visit to Kailasagiri was limited to temple visit, but this time got an opportunity to trek this beautiful hill. After exploring Sri Kadu Malleshwara Betta and Ontikal Betta (adjacent to Kailasagiri) it was time to reach top of Kailasagiri.

This time Chinmay joined me for trekking to Kailasagiri 

Plan was to start trekking around 6.00 a.m. and complete it before it get too Sunny!

Trek started from entrance of Kadu Malleshwara Betta, it’s a same path towards ontikal betta and need to take a deviation to reach Kailasagiri. Initial trek is quite easy (will become difficult if we miss the path).

Trek distance is not more than 5 Kms and can be completed with in 2 to 3 hours depends on number of stops. Route taken is not the regular one to Kailasagiri temple and its not much explored as well.

Reached our destination without much hassle, spent some time capturing photos around. Surrounding place was looking beautiful from this point, especially Mylapur betta   

One more trek completed and next plan was to hike all these hills at one stretch.  

Bike ride to Upparpete Betta

 After couple of trekking around Chintamani, it was time for a Bike ride to Upparpete Betta.

Sanjay, Vikas and Varun joined me for this ride (in fact I joined them :P). This place will be good to visit only morning time. Mist will be cleared by 9.00 a.m. or sometimes even early. From Chintamani it will take 20 to 30 minutes to reach this place.

Upparpete village is around 10 Kms from Chintamani and Upparpete betta is adjacent to Kailasagiri. This hill can be reached from two ways, one route from Kailasagiri and the other one from Shidlagatta road (but I didn’t tried the other route from Shidlagatta road).

This place is not lesser than Nandi Hills or Skandagiri hills, one can witness beautiful sunrise and play of clouds. But yes, compared to Nandi Hills its not so crowded for now and not many people know about this place.

Before the entrance of Kailasagiri we need to take a left deviation to reach Upparpete Betta, the ride from this place will be off road ride! We will get panoramic view chintamani from this stretch.

Need to travel around 5 Kms in this stretch. Should be careful while raiding this stretch.

There is enough parking place (not any dedicated place for now) once you reach the end of the road. Also there is a temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman.

One more temple is at top of the hill, to reach that we should climb some steps and slippery rocks (slippery during rainy season). Its around 15 mins walk to reach the top of the hill (which includes my stops for photos).

The top view of the hill is really amazing, other view of Kailasagiri betta.   

We can sit and watch the clouds playing around

Now a days this place is become famous, observed more riders during weekends.

Good alternative for crowded Nandi Hills or Avalabetta around Bengaluru.

Once this ride was done, next plan for the next weekend was to trek this Upparpete Betta covering Sri Kadu Malleshwara Betta and Kailasagiri.