The Trip

After inquiring every bit of information of the trek, we finally decided to go for our first trek , which was a bit risky as we were the first one to go for this place after the rail service had begun. We boarded the 12:10 train from mysore to sakleshpura, We took a whole compartment in the unreserved part of the train as we ten members. The train reached saklespur around 4:00 in the morning, after a discussion about the trek with the station master we boarded the same train to donigal. At the Donigal station, we had our first bit of adventure the train just slowed down and did not stop, we had to jump from the moving train with our heavy bags to get down.

Donigal is a beautiful place surrounded by thick forests.After getting the glimpse of the beautiful sunrise we embarked our trek. It was a very misty morning.. low visibility.. within couple of kms on the tracks, we reached the first bridge.. we admired the view.. the greenery, the height of the bridge and the mist.. a very quaint place.. with a creaky old bridge.. and invigorating freshness..we reached for our cameras..initially it felt difficult to step on the slippery sleepers.. cos of mist.. the sense of height makes one feel precarious.. we stepped with gingerly footwork.. stopped midway and waited for the mists to clear and the Dawn to break.. for a better view..

After couple of hours of trek we found a shallow stream where we had our breakfast and continued the trek.We were very cautious as we did not know when the train would come
especially on the bridges, where couple of us would move fast to a safe place called refuge and signal others to follow .Then we got the first tunnel which was around 250 mts long,everyone of us reached for our torches as it was pitch dark inside the tunnel.Soon for the excitement rather it was a tense moment, we heard the sound of the train engine, Everyone of us panicked to reach to a safe place.Which we did in time as train was too slow.It was a goods train with 2 engines and more than fifty boogies.