On 11th Nov 2012 we planned to go Nishani Motte. It was a peak in
Madikeri.
Sathisha
had seen a article on Nishani Motte in local magazine
Sudha. After many dropouts in our team it was only 5 of them Me(HKM Swamy), Sathisha, Suku, Pavan, Chetu were ready to trip with 3 pulsars.
We thought of leaving early morning but as
Sathisha
had some work so he did
double shift & left Bangalore early morning and reached mysore at 10 AM.
Me,
Suku, &
Pavan
started picked
Chetu from his house than picked
Sathisha from bus stand and started our ride from hunsur road. we reached
hunsur at 11 AM. had tiffen there and started to search the route, Nishani
Motte was a new place & no one was aware of the route. We searched in
net, Google maps all but no where there was a route to it. Also we
inquired with one of our friend Machaiah as his native was coorg but
even he was not aware of the place. There was no way in wasting time in
search of it as it was already 11:30 AM & thought we will go Madikeri and
inquire people regarding that. We reached Madikeri at 1:30 PM and asked
regarding the route as usual many were not aware of the place at last a
person told us to go towards tadiyadamol which we had already been last
time for trek. After we traveled 25 kms we reach Napoklu at 2.30 PM. We
again inquired the people over there but it was of no use. Than we
started feeling that we may be in the wrong route and I started to
search net at last we found one of the Blog where we saw that starting
point to trek Nishani Motte was Galeebedu. The place was pointing
towards northwest to Madikeri but we had travelled towards south 25 kms.
It was time and had a thought to return mysore. But Sathisha(team lead
;-)) said we will go to Nishani Motte. We return back to Madikeri and
inquired people regarding Galeebedu and started towards Galeebedu. We
travelled 10 km and at last we manage to find the place Galeebedu at 4 PM and we inquired people over there. They informed us that u people have
to Park your vehicle and have to trek more than 2 kms to reach the peak
and it may be 8pm by the time you come back also there will be leaches.
we were not bothered about leaches but Suku was not well and also there
was no safety for our bikes. The people also suggested that there is a
direct vehicle route from Madikeri to the peak. So we decided we will
give a last try took details regarding the way and started back to
Madikeri. We reached raja seat went towards stone hill. After reaching
stone hill it was dead end for tar road and we started in mud road hoping
tat we will get the peak in the end after an 3 kms of mud road we had a
surprise to see our road joining a concrete road. We saw a police canter on
the way stopped him and inquired to confirm that are we in correct route. We were happy to
hear tat we were right to heading towards Nishani Motte. That concrete
road was to new resort Taj's Vivanta. We reached Vivanta and we were stopped by
the guards we said we going to Nishani Motte they said it's after Vivanta but
today we are not leaving any one to cross Vivanta as Governor of
Karnataka is about to come and stay for two days there. Oops our dream
to see Nishani Motte started to vanish from our minds. We said the
guards the trouble we faced to reach here and surprisingly a guard said
to silently go straight with out turning any where. We started
moving regoursly and faced a troop of police standing middle of the road
with a person in front of them his dress looked like he was SP of coorg.
Our heart started beating louder that they may stop us as every one were staring
at us. As soon as we approached them they gave us way in middle and we
crossed them silently. I felt like a king for a second as the army were
welcoming me. After series of all the things we got a dead end for our
bikes but we did't see any peak there. We saw a trek path there and went ahead and followed the path after trekking for nearly a kilometer we got the peak at around 5:30 PM which is none other other than Nisani Motte:). We plannedto stay overnight but was not possible so took some snaps enjoyed the nature for an hour and return back to mysore at 10 PM.
Correct Route to Nishani Motte
Madekeri -> RajaSeat -> towards Galibeedu 4 kms -> take left at Race course road -> Go straight for 4-5 kms toVivanta -> Treak 1km to the Peak Nishani Motte
Below is the our route captured by Google Location history:
