Travel Quotes

List of Travel Quotes I like

• Desha Suttu Kosha Odu. (Travel the places and Read the books) -Kannada Proverb
• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu
• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -St. Augustine
• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. -D. H. Lawrence
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. –Mark Twain
• I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost
• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. -Ray Bradbury
• I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. -Rosalia de Castro
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. -John Muir
• Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover / Breath’s aware that will not keep. / Up, lad: when the journey’s over there’ll be time enough to sleep. –A. E. Housman
• Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. –Frank Herbert
• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. –Jawaharlal Nehru
• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. -Mark Twain
• We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. -Gloria Gaither
• Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. –Paul Theroux
• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. -Lin Yutang
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. -James Michener
• I love to travel, but hate to arrive. –Albert Einstein
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. -Martin Buber
• I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. -Lillian Smith
• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. -Charles Horton Cooley
• The journey is the reward. -Tao saying

KumaraParvatha Trek

Kumaraparvatha is at a height of around 5600 feet located in the beautiful Western Ghats in Karnataka. There are two routes to Kumaraparvatha; Tough one from Kukke Subramanya and other route from Beedhalli – Somwarpet. We climbed the KP from Kukke Subramanya.

Distance from Bangalore: Around 300Kms
Mode of transport: KSTRC Rajahamsa bus
Trek Members: Me, Nandish, Harsha, Sony, ChandraShekar, Chetan, Girish
Date of our trek: 24th Dec 2010 10PM –27th Dec 2010 6.30 AM
Total distance to be trekked: 26 kms (13 Kms one way)
Trek difficult level: Tough
Weather: Sunny with very little clouds (No Leeches)
Total Time taken for Trek: 25th Dec Sat 2010 8.30 AM to 26th Dec Sun 3.30 PM

Milestones of our Trek:

• Start of trek from Kukke: 25th Dec Sat 2010 at 8.30 AM
• Bhat’s House: 11.30 AM. Started again after Lunch at around 1 PM
• Kallu Mantapa: 3 PM
• Shesha Parvatha: 5.15 PM
• Overnight Stay: Inside tents in the Forest area after Shesha Parvatha- 5.45 PM.
• KP Summit: Started at 5.30AM on 26th Dec Sun. Reached before Sunrise at around 6 AM
• Shesha Parvatha: Started from overnight stay place at 8.00 AM and reached Shesha Parvatha at around 8.15 AM
• Kallu Mantapa: 9.30 AM
  
• Forest Office: 10.30 AM. Took break till 11.20 AM
  
• Bhat’s House: 11.30 AM. Started again from Bhat's house after lunch at 12.30 PM
• Kukke Subramanya: 3.30 PM

Trek Route Map:
Description:

• Kumaraparvatha trek is one of the toughest peaks to climb in Karnataka.
• There are 4 stages in the Trek. One can stay overnight in any of these places based on weather condition and team’s fitness
• Stage 1: Bhattara Mane: One can stop for lunch at Bhat’s house or can stay overnight if one is not carrying tents. Better to inform Bhat’s family in advance if you are staying overnight. There is a forest office which is around half km from Bhat’s house and one has to pay forest entry fee.
• Stage 2: Kallu mantapa: There is a small stream near mantapa and is good source of water for trekkers. From here, one hardly finds any shade as mountain range is covered by thick grass.
• Stage 3: Shesha Parvatha: View from Shesha Parvatha is amazing. There was a stagnate dirty water source inside the forest area after shesha Parvatha.
• Stage 4. Summit of KP: There is a small temple at the peak. Sunrise was breathtaking and ooh!!! What a view!!!!!!
• Carry sufficient water
• A stick will be very useful while climbing down
• Leave no trace behind and keep the place clean

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-Mahesh