Rangaswamy or Bilikal Betta Trek

I came to Bangalore after a break of three months from US and home visit. Situation was not very good in Bangalore because of Cauvery water sharing dispute. Most of the companies declared holiday on Monday 12th February 2007. So it was a long weekend. I and Ayas planned to go out somewhere. Ayas was interested in trekking. Saturday evening we decided to go to Rangaswamy Betta after browsing about the place from internet and experiences of the people who has already visited the place.

Satuarday 10th February 2007:

We packed some Aloo Paranthas from Singh’s house and bought some fruits in C. V. Raman Nagar. We called for city taxi for the morning and planned on how to reach to destination by searching on internet blogs.

Sunday 11th February 2007:
I woke up at 5:30am and got ready to go. Called city taxi for status and at 6:15am we started from MalleshPalaya to Majestic. At Majestic we took Idly breakfast and bought water. We took Bus for Harohalli, Kanakpura at 7:30am. We got down at Harohalli bus stand at 9:00am. We bought some fresh fruits from Harohalli market. Now our next destination target was Maralvadi. We asked some auto drivers and local people. We caught a private minibus to Maralvadi at 9:20am. We reached to Maralvadi bus stand about 9:40am. There we took second round of breakfast including sweet-buns, breads and again idly.
We took an auto to reach to the foot hill of Rangaswamy betta. Auto dropped us to nearest village to reach to foothill. There many kids followed us for chocolates. Some even knew English words like carry bottle, show way etc. It was a different experience altogether. We said bye-bye and feared one of them to proceed further.

Now we were at the bottom of the hill and Ayas recognized that he has already come to this place with his team. He boosted my morale. It was a sunny day but not too hot. Cool breezing in sweating was really a feel good factor. We packed up all our water bottles and bags on back.