Mylapura Betta Trek

Mylapura is a small village in Chintamani Taluk, it’s around 13 KM from Chintamani & 73 KM from namma Bengaluru.

This is most attractive hill compare to the surrounding hills around Chintamani. Each time when I go for a hike with Sanjay, I asked him about this trek. Finally we decided to complete this trek, one of Sanjay’s friend also joined us for this trek.

Like other treks around Chintamani, trek can’t be completed in couple of hours. It’s one day trek and better to avoid in rainy season to escape from slippery rocks.

First of all, this place is a devotional place. Localities climb this hill with lot of custom. There is a beautiful Shiva Linga at the mid-way of the hill and one should have courage to reach that place.

We started our trekking after finishing breakfast (since it was a last minute plan), took around 15 minutes to reach the village. There is a small lake blow the hill, we parked our bikes near the lake and started our trekking.

Its better to carry water bottle and some energy bars along with you, since there is no other source of drinking water or stall options available.  

Plan was to first reach the peak, spend some time in exploring the fort around and while coming down visit the devotional place.  

From this point again next hike will become more difficult (late I came to know, this is not the regular route to reach the peak).

There is a huge fort around the hill, sadly its almost destroyed!!

It’s a quite peaceful place and one of the must visit places around Bengaluru. Spent some time in exploring the fort and clicking some pics and started descending the hill.

Once we reach the mid-way of the hill need to take a deviation to reach the Shiva temple.

It’s better to climb in bare foot. We need to cross one main steep with the help of chain. And use ladders to reach the temple (There is a fixed chain and ladders present around this place)

 

This is the final step to reach Shiva Linga 😊

Finally we reached our destination, could see lord Shiva 😊

There is no temple here, but I heard daily worship to Lord shiva will be held here.  

Its worth visiting place, localities kept this place very clean and hopefully it will be maintained same way in future days as well.

We took around 6 hours to complete this trek, including our relaxing time and photo session 😊

Once again thanks to Sanjay for making this happen. Finally we covered most of the places around Chintamani. Many of these places are still unknown to lager audience, seriously these places are so beautiful which we ignored all these years. This pandemic situation helped us to explore the places surrounding us 😊  

 

 

Upparpete Betta Trek

Upparpete village is around 10 Kms from Chintamani and Upparpete betta is adjacent to Kailasagiri and Kadu Malleshwara betta. Last couple of visits to Upparpete was bike ride.

When Sanjay told me about his plan to trek Upparpete Betta I was excited to join him.

Plan was to start the trek from Kadu Malleshwara betta, cross Kaiasagiri and reach entrance of Upparpete betta. From there take a untouched path to reach top of Upparpete betta.

Though it’s a half day trek, its not an easy trek for sure. Because of uphill we need to climb and there is no specific path. We need to make our own path and climb.

As per the plan we started our trek early morning. Weather was so pleasant on that day, thought I passed many times in past couple of weeks it was like a new place for me. Easily crossed Kailasagiri with minimum stops.

Once we reached Upparpete betta real challenge started from here. Half of the hill was covered with mist and made difficult for us to find the proper route.

At some point, if I look back visibility was not more than 5 feet. Entire place was covered by mist!

Gradually mist started clearing and it helped us to find our route easily.

The view of Kailasagiri and Kadu Malleshwara betta was quite different from this place.

Finally we reached top of the hill, by that time already few people were there (as I mentioned in my earlier blog, now a days this place is also getting famous and many people started visiting this place).

Since we reached top of the hill from the other end (where there is no road), I could see some question marks on the faces of the people – from where the hell these guys reached!!!

It was a nice hike, relaxed for a while enjoying the mist around us :) 

Next challenge was to get down from the hill. Felt it’s not a good idea to take the same route which we took to climb, because of steep.

We took different route to get down, there was a small stream flowing down we just followed it and it was easy decline.

Not sure exact distance trek, approximately its around 8 to 10 Kms trek. One thing for sure not many tired this and its worth exploring. I am very much thankful to Sanjay for planning and executing this trek :)