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First experience with Rock climbing & Repelling. On friday night at around 9:30pm started from yesvantpur….picking up all members from different part of bangalore. By 12:30 we were on our way for chitradurga. Chitradurga is around 200+ kms from Bangalore, district is hilly, with lots of forts and villages.

Reached Chitradurga by 6am in the morning, fresher n up at ashram.Then headed towards Jogamatti, our camp site. There was briefing relating to rock climbing and repelling. we learned about various ways to knot ropes, various rock climbing gears etc..

As the local guide came to tell about the history about the cave temple “Chandravalli Caves”. we have to re-schedule our rock climbing and repelling.

The cave temple date back to world of Sadhu’s. Inside the cave there was place for doing Samadhi. Still the wall painting are there. This place was protected by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

The cave is 60 feet deep, have many secret doors to come out. At the deepest point it is pitch dark, now it is occupied by bats.

After coming out of the cave. We started rock climbing .

we learned the basic of rock climbing, identifying which place hold, how to grip etc……

At around 2pm headed to base camp for lunch. Lunch was arrange from local mess. Rested there for around 1 hour. Once agained filled the emptied bottle and headed for repelling. All the arrangement was made during that resting period. And we are ready for repelling.

It was really a thrilling experience for all of us. I got a chance to do it twice. …..got lucky!!!!!!!

School children taking autograph from Shubhashish…..

Then we headed for cave exploration…

By evening we headed night camp site near forest guest house. We pitched our tents, cooked food for dinner….Next morning went to near water fall …played with the water….till lunch time. Once we finished our lunch we walked to the forest zoo….which around 2Km from the water fall. After visiting zoo we started our return journey towards Bangalore, stopped near Tumkur  for some snacks and back in Bangalore by 9:30.

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