Fortunately everything worked out albeit last minute and we were able to enjoy a rejuvenating day by the pristine waterfalls, forests, mountains and grasslands of KarkiGudda. We took our usual route with usual team. First saw a beauty of Tirthkere waterfalls & later few kilo meters drive in terrible mud road we turned to walk instead of taking any risk to our vehicle.
We reached my friend Ashok house after a few minutes of walk. Whole house welcome us heartily & we all filled our stomach with very delicious foods & next started to walk inside his estate. First we visit a beautiful small waterfall Kerkolalu near to Ashok house which situated between thick coffee estates.
First few hours path was surrounded by a beautiful chilliness Coffee estates & a very large swathe of dense Shola forests still these estates retain large tracts of Shola, grasslands and naturalized forests between the Coffee plantations. After nonstop walk we entered open vast grassland which bottom of the greenish mountain.
First we hike initial small peak and then able to see a real hygienic beauty of this beautiful mountain. It’s a heaven to seeing a whole beauty from this step. From the top of the First step we are not even willing to believe we could climb it because from there it seems very step &sharp. But doing adventure is a great part of our journey so everyone happily energetically facture of times reached the top.
This time it was not at all warmth in the whole journey, it was a Salubrious weather in our whole journey. Even the mid day was bitterly cold. We started to shiver heavily in the peak at midday only. But still we manage to spend almost an hour of time on the peak. 

Watching the groups of Mountains from the top was undoubtedly scenic being a large expanse of gentle grass mountains with Shola forest so after enjoying the scene briefly; we decided to return to back because of lack of time.



On return we chosen another side of the mountain n while walking through the meadows by the grasslands, we soon came across a feral lone large wild Sambar strolling just little distance from us. how shy these enormous beasts are. One look at us and them soon turned tail and scooted off into the forest. It ought to have been the other way around!







National parks had always held my interest it's so much fun being there, we feel privileged to know we are at such a place where the flora, fauna ,birds and animals are really protected and cared for existence Narasimha Parvata (1152 m) is one place where you can just relax in nature and feel contended.


After sudden heavy rain we once again started our journey, the grass become more slippery & we were not able to judge loose stones because of long thick grasses. Finally we reached one side of the peak where we saw a statue of Hindu God at the bottom of one big rock. We climbed that rock & we had a stunning view of the imposing Kudremukh ranges and we were able to see beautiful Valikunja peak form this point.
Another side of the summit The Shola forests are found on mountain peaks. Grasslands cover the peaks while the slopes are covered with thick forests & some places interspersed with lush grasslands and dark green Shola forests all set in the prettiest of tropical jungle landscape. Twirls of nonstop breeze on top peppered the undulating landscape.






On our return we climbed down from another side of the hilltop across the big valley situated between Narasimha Parvata and Mallandoor. Watching green paddy fields of the Mallandoor village was superb on our return path.
















