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October 17, 2005
Bheemeshwari Camping Trip - Bangalore Weekend Getaway
Some of my friends were talking on Thursday about the weekend and all of a sudden we decided to do a wilderness camping, but unfortunately no one had much information about wilderness camping. I looked at some of the books I had and searched on the internet. But looks like everyone was talking about camping but no one seems to provide enough information about were to camp, where to get permission and stuff. Anyways we decided to just go there and find out.
On Saturday morning we set out for camping, we reached Muthathi and got hold of a local guy, he showed us some place were we can camp. But those places were all really dirty. We decided to look around some more. And we went to Bheemeshwari which was another 5 kilometers from Muthathi. There was a Cauvery fishing camp there. We talked with the watchman there and he told us that there is a secluded place 2 kilometer from there and we can probably camp there. We drove for another 2 kilometer and we found a really nice place. We pitched out tents there, but after that we found another really nice place very close by, so we just carried our tent to that place. It was a picture perfect campsite.
We meet some local people in the night and we had a small dancing section and a small game section with the boys. It was fun, because we couldn’t speak their language. But still we had fun.
In the night we spotted a fox, which was for some reason just watching our tent from the bush. There were supposed to be elephants also in this place. But unfortunately or fortunately we didn’t spot any.
To camp in any forest you need to get permission from the District Forest officer. Unfortunately I had no clue where to get permission, all I knew was I had to get permission. We also followed the ‘leave no trace behind’ policy.
It was really fun. I felt really bad to come back in just a day. I would love to do more camping, so if you guys know any good place close to Bangalore please let me know.
Posted by Sam at October 17, 2005 08:06 AM
Comments
Oh wow that looks beautiful
so how has adjusting to banglore been?
Posted by: visithra at October 19, 2005 07:38 PM
if you dont know the rules, you dont need to follow em. just set up camp :)
Posted by: van at October 26, 2005 09:18 PM
Visithra,
Well I don’t think I am adjusting that well, that’s why I had to run away to wilderness to get some calmness I guess. :)
Van, here even if you know the rules, you don’t have to follow them. :)
Posted by: Sam at October 26, 2005 09:46 PM
Please give me some more details of the above place as we are planning for a visist to that place.
Posted by: Rahul at December 4, 2006 01:18 AM
hi :
did u get to know of any other places worth a camp n a visit close to blore.
Posted by: sanjay at May 21, 2007 03:30 AM
Hi, i dont know any good places near bangalore, but wud love to join u guys for such campings....but i know good locations in kerala....
Posted by: PREMU at October 3, 2007 09:47 PM
glad to see atleast you could camp somewhere...with kids we find no solutions for good real camps... any suggestions
Posted by: sarin at June 17, 2008 02:59 AM