Sohni's Foot-Print !!: Why Do I Travel ???

Sohni's Foot-Print !!: Why Do I Travel ???: Travel is a far Cry out of the comfort zone called home. It is a stress buster leaving every burden of the daily life back home and moving...

Why Do I Travel ???

Travel is a far Cry out of the comfort zone called home. It is a stress buster leaving every burden of the daily life back home and moving out among the unprotected zone with as less luggage as possible.

People who travel light are said to be easygoing, when they come back to the regular days, they learn to live light, leave the burden and yet deal with difficulties. They are independent and well managed. They are more immune to nature, cuts, bruises, strain and better fighter in the survival for the fittest.

The basic rules of travel eventually teach us the basic rules of life.

For a lot of us it takes a great effort to move out of our homes, to take a break, to gather the strength and to take out some finance from the regular expenditures. For a lot of us, it is how others will be effected while they move out and take a break. Again, it takes a lot of courage to spread out our wings and meet new people, different weather and different food. The thought of health is always a questions.

However, once we are able to successfully fight with the one standing in the mirror right in front of us, we are all good to go. No bound is a bound indeed. When we take that first step, we all tend to take a step back. If the dilemma is overcome to take the one forward, we have the entire universe out there, waiting for us. Once we go out there, we see thousands of them who think alike, feel alike, go through the same bindings over and over again till the point that they took that one first step.

We are same in all different ways and then we start meeting each other again and again in the similar path to share our dreams to share our vision and to walk the path.

Some of us travel because their jobs lets them to, some of us travel to see the world, to meet different people or to taste different cuisines. There are the ones who travel to find something or someone and then there are others who travel to find themselves. Some travel to escape from bindings and some travel to get lost in bindings. We all are one of them or most of them at the same time. We have different paths yet the same first step that takes us through the journey.

I have gone through a phase where I thought money is not important if I want to travel, time is, so I quit my job with my good amount of saving and started traveling. List water flowing out of a pot, I came to realize that time isn’t that all important thing here. Money is also a big factor. SO, I joined back. Managing both time and money is the best way out to continue to travel. So plan well, chalk what you want. Some of us want the luxury of home even when they travel while others do without the luxury to visit and attain the maximum out of their trips. Either way, plan well and plan in advance, be precise, be well researched. Talk to people, communicate with forums and use the maximum of what we call the social media.

Last but not the least, remain focused and healthy. In order to mentally drive one to be an independent traveler where you have to walk miles, eat all kind of food, stay wherever required and fight weather calamities, good health is a must. Again, to carry on with the confidence and to have the strength to participate in the entire plan wholeheartedly, physical strength is a must.

Let us be a smart traveler, let us reach those new heights.

Sakleshpur - Trekking Trail !!

Sakleshpur is a small town, nestled in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. In its mountain terrain’s are the vast spreads of coffee estates apart from paddy fields, cardamom & betel-nut plantations. Sakleshpur is also known for thick forests, flowing streams, waterfalls and beautiful meadows stretching for miles.

I chalked out a 570kms from Bangalore. My train left on 4th July Thursday – 7:30AM to 11:40PM – Train No: 17311 (MAS VASCO EXP). 

The distance of the Trek: Castle Rock to Dudhsagar falls is14 kms and the time taken is about 6 Hours or more.

This is the beauty of the trek, the route is full of tunnels. and has the famous second largest tunnel enroute. Be prepared for muddy trek with a lot of leeches during monsoon seasons while the beauty of the trek lies in the monsoon. We had carried our gear and camps and good stock of food. Stay is not available there, camping is the only mean of night stay. During the weekends, there crowd is high and there is place next to the Dudhsagar water where everyone camps.

Food is also not available, so we had carried the stock. Later on, there were mobile vendors selling food items and logs for born fire in a higher price. There is no charge for the camping as long as everyone is self -sustained. Be well prepared for cold rainy night.
There is no washroom facilities available so be blessed in the arm of nature.

The night is an experience to remember and cherish. next day early mornings are cold and misty. The rainy nights make the railway track slippery. We had carried torches,battery, sleeping bag and tent. In the morning we packed up and into the lighter backpacks and started the walk.

As the day rolled by and the trek got sweaty and greener and more beautiful, being engrossed in the beauty of nature is a bliss. It continued to rain and the number of photograph was definitely negated out for this trek.
The tiredness, the nature, the fresh air, the hooting trains everything mesmerized us.


My Camera and me have waited so long for Monsoon to hit Karnataka….and my weekend journey started so rainy that the camera hardly got a chance to pop out!!

Misty Nandi Hills Drive