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Kumara Parvatha Trek

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Kumara Parvatha trek is considered as the paradise for trekkers. It was in bucket list from long time, finally got a change to tick this, when my registration was accepted by Banglore Acenders.  This was my first trek with this group, but never felt I was traveling with a group of strangers. That’s the specialty about this team!  For a change, my brother Kiran also joined me for this trek. We were informed to assemble at common pick up point near Shantal Silks Mejestic at 9.00 PM. Because of long weekend and a huge traffic jam around Mejestic by the time every one gathered it was around 11.30 PM, for couple of us trek was already started from Bangalore itself. Few were walked almost 2 to 3 kms to reach the designation. We started our journey around 11.30 PM and our destination was Kukke Subramanya. Reached our destination almost 1 hour late but managed to fresh up quickly, finish our breakfast and we were all set to start our trek around 7.30 AM. About trek: Kum...

Beach Trek – Kumta to OM Beach

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Beach trek, which was pending in my bucket list from long time… While going through the planned activities of Bangalore Adventurers saw a mail from Dr.Srinivas regarding the registration open for beach trek. Even though I was following this group from almost 3 years could not got a chance to trek with this group.   Just to try my luck registered me for this trek and I was lucky this time, my registration was accepted.    Initially when plan was announced, trek was planned for 13 members but because of more people were interested for this trek ended up with group of 21 members.  As mentioned earlier this was my first trek with this group and was excited to join this trek. As instructed we all gathered near Shantala silk house majestic on time. First time for my surprise all the participants turned up on time but vehicle was not turned up on time because of traffic.  Finally we started our journey to Kumta around 9.30 PM. From Bangalore, Kumta is at a...