Its been a while since I did any trek near the 'betta's near Bengaluru coz last trek we did in december to 'SavanDurga', Ramnagar.
Shiv Ganga is about 50-60 kms from Bangalore on the Tumkur highway. Its a one day trip. We started at around 8am from our Place (BTM, Bangalore) and reached Majestic-KSRTC bus stand, from there we got the bus for Dobbspete around 9:25am and we reached Dobbspete around 11am (in just 1.5 hours). The road was very nice and thanks to KSRTC bus who made their significant contribution to reach there in that much time.From Dobbspete it was still 6 kms and for that only 'auto' facillity was there. You need to bargain that auto fare and anyhow they would come to standard price 10rs.
aFter reaching there, we started climbing up, there were two temples oF "lord shiva" in the hill, one at the bottom of the hill and another at the peak. The first temple is about 100-150 steps and it was clearly constructed with a nice stone stairway, so it was not difficult to climb. That temple was carved inside the mountain as a cave.
Behind the temple was the way which leads to the top of the mountain, for first few meters the path was reasonably good, with stairs carved out of mountian and then as we climbed up the hill it got more steeper and no steps, you should use the stones lying there as stepping stones, it was pretty hard path but still you can make it.
We had 'Bhel-puri' and 'Cold drink' at one small shop in the midway, the most dangerous thing in the Shiv ganga is not the steepness of the mountain, but it was the Monkeys over there, i was having a carrybag with my camera, suddenly one monkey jumped at me, i started running up the hill, then my friends there showed sticks to that monkey and i got rid of that, thank god I got saved. So it is advisable thing to you, better not to carry anything in your hand, have a back bag and put everything in that.
As we moved further the weather became so wonderful, and it started raining ovaa there.Again we stopped at some tea shop and had "Hot Hot Pakode with tea"(yummmyyy). It was amazing experience we had first time at the hill and you wont believe we clicked the photos also in that rain.:)
aFter clickinG pictures n all we moved further then we saw the 2nd temple on the very high hiLL and the real trek starts now. I mean a very tough steep steps !! But track had Iron rods for our support. Now I can see steps where we cannot climb without the support of hands. As we climbed up, it became more and more difficult. I was damn tired but didn’t show that.
Here comes the last trekking steps. A nanDi’s statue was carved on a rock top with steps to climb. We have done a lot till now and why should we hesitate for the last shot rite.?.
Next attempt was climbing the top most rock on that hill as rock with Nandi is not the highest point. It was a piece of cake with no steepness. We spend around half an hour on the top around 3 PM.
It was the toughest trek which I ever had in my whole life till now. At least we should do it once in a quarter to keep ourselves away from bad stamina and threat of heart attacks. This mother of all treks continued till the very end with a photo session break in between.
Trekking down was very easy and fast compared to climbing up and then we returned to bengaluru.
