MUPPAANE..!!! The silent beauty of Sharavati !!!

ಶರಾವತಿ ........ನಿಶಬ್ಧ ಚಲುವೆ 

Its time to share one of unforgettable memories on the sharavati back waters.

OUR ADVENTEROUS team chalked out complete fun filled adventurous trip to MUPPANE. It is situated in SHIMOGA district which is around 115 km from shimoga Town. Need permission from FOREST DEPARTMENT to stay. Naren helped in getting permission from forest department for us and cautioned us to be very careful since muppaane is land of COBRAS 

I and Gopi started searching for muppaane in Google maps for hours together. Some how we were able to find the place, but we were not sure since none of us had been to that place earlier except Naren, Keeping rough idea and direction in mind Vijay, Naren, Phani, Varuni, Vaishnavi  started our trip to travel to shimoga by  IRAVATA on Friday morning,. chatting…cracking jokes…pulling each others legs ..Everything was just fun. our main target was Varuni (its Default)

 The most memorable was we played a game like one should walk in the moving bus without taking a support on either side it was quite fun to manage, unfortunately when it was Varuni’s turn, she dint observe that there was a deep curve she started her challenge, when bus took a deep turn at 70 kmph she fell on one of the passenger ha ha..!! paaps…Both Varuni and that lady was scared and dint know what was going on J.For a moment Varuni became the STAR of the bus J by the time we reached shimoga it was 5.30 pm.we had small refreshments to regain our energyJ, we hired a sumo to travel to muppaane,

On the way we took some vegetables, some basic things to cook, petrol for generator at muppaane .By the time we reached sagara it was 10 pm.so planned to stay back at sagara due to some unfavorable conditions. After delicious dinner, we started searching for some rooms to stay ;) luckily we got some dormitory to stay. Early morning by 5, we had cup of TEA and BUN on roadside BOX restaurant and started journey towards jog. We reached KARGAL which is a small town 4km before Jog where u can find shops for your basic needs. We took deviation towards BHATKAL road  moved forward enquiring with localities to reach the destination, The way to muppaane is awesome ,curvy roads sudden steep .single road   surrounded by fog, lush greens with cool breeze. There were many lakes on the way. We stopped at one of the lake and gave some work to our virtual eyes J .every minute of travel was so refreshing enjoying the greenery, mild sunlight, lakes covered with fog, different species of birds and repeated caution from Naren reminding cobras it made us more curios to reach that place .after 12 km from KARGAL reached Muppaane Nature camp at 9 am, need to take left and travel inside about 3 km to reach guest house maintained by forest department. It’s a big hall actually u can’t find any rooms over there.

 

Just by the side of backwaters the guesthouse is situated .one can feel about private beach stay. Step outside of the guest house and you can enjoy panoramic view of sharavati back waters. Mind blowing…..!!!!!!Surrounded by 35% of dense forest and 65% of backwaters on other side. A boat belonged to forest department can be seen..But sorry guys…u cant use it…!!! Can just sit inside and take photographs loll….!!!We went for a walk around to enjoy the surrounding and collected some dry sticks to light up fire to cook for the lunch.

We had readymade breakfast with us. Later everyone entered in to Nature’s bath tub played some games in water. The water level was optimum. Moving forward gradually we can feel the depth of water anyways be cautious..!!!we spend nearly 4 hours in Nature’s Tub. around 2 pm we felt something strange..!!! Damn HUNGRY guys..!!! 

Started co-operative cooking lunch process ,we can get utensils from  Meti of the guesthouse. Vijay and Naren was the head for all this process, everyone contributed with different kind of work, finally we prepared vegetable sambar and one side dish alu palya.

Mmmmmmmmm it was delicious and amazing experience..!!!! Everyone was so tired and  slept where ever we found some place to lie down. Evening we had been for a walk .as evening passed and darkness started covering we started reminding of cobras and was very scared and cautious …!!Vaishu and Varuni started screaming after stepping on something .everyone was tensed and used torch light to see what was that..!! later we realized that she has stepped on Varuni’s leg, due to pain Varuni too screamed..hahahah.!!! That was even more fun out of tense situation J

Back into the room, since we had given petrol for generator, lights were on..!! Oh we were so happy …!!!Meti cautioned us not to walk around in midnight since wild animals apart from two bulbs….everywhere it was covered with thick darkness and some strange noise of  tadpoles at different frequencies ..it was good experience ..though !! After dinner we got some bed by paying 50 /- , we started playing DUMSHARADS. Three in a team and played nicely till the power was available. AT 12 it was Varuni’s Birthday, we had arranged surprise party for her.

Got up early morning and went for a trek with Meti hoping that we can see some animals. But we were late..!! Animals had already left..!! we were just lucky to see only few paw marks and fresh laddi cakes…!!! 

One should not miss the picturesque view of unending sharavati valley..!! Sharavati has spread widely up to 64 kms of backwater. This is the main source of water and power generation unit in Karnataka..!!

Avoid plastics and Maintain sanity of Nature…!!!!!

SAVE NATURE…!!!  ENJOY IT TILL CORE..!!!