February 13, 2006
Masinagudi Camping
I didn’t get the time to put the pictures of the camping trip. I went camping in Masinagudi (Creek n Crag). This was a coffee estate, its more than 300 acres and they have a place for people to camp. They have two nice tree houses and they have kept the nature intact. Its kind of a bit luxury camping, they took care of the food part, they had bathroom facilities. But the one thing which scared me was all the stories they told about the wild life there.
They said they have seen leopards hunting deer and the place where we pitched out tent was the place where the elephants cross. Yeah sweet!
It was a wonderful trip. We weren’t lucky to spot any leopards or elephants.
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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.
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