Moon light trek to Kumara Parvatha

Wow, Finaly the day had come for "Kumara Parvatha" Moonlight trek populary known as KP.
Luckily this time i was part of the moonlight trekking after missing the earlier ones. I was determined to make it this time and was phyiscally/mentally prepared, coz I knew that KP was one of the toughest trekking spots that i have ever seen or been.

KP is situated in kukke subramany of South kanara district and about 5000 ft from the sea level. It belongs to the western Ghat mountain range. It was summer and Our packed bags had "ready to eat MTR foods packets, bread &Jam, Torch, Sleeping bags & limited clothes.We ( Chandan@PHILIPS, Nagarag@TATAELXI, Sujeevan@PHLIPS, Avinash@TATAELXI, Ravishankar@AOL ) five of us boarded the bus from KSRTC bus station. We got the seats and unfortunately it was in the last row. The road was pretty bad and bumpy, however it was fun travelling in the bus seated in the last row. We reached kukke early morning at 7.00 AM.

As usual, we had our breakfast (without brushing) we started off at 8.00 AM from kukke. The total distance from kukke to KP is around 18 KM's. The first stretch is ascending the forest, is quite tough one, I was really felt fainting when I walked continusouly for 30 mins ...coz i was the last one trailing in our gang. I believe it took nearly 4 hrs to reach Bhattr'u mane after intermediate breaks etc etc. We reached bhatru mane at round 12.15 PM. We had good food and slept in bhatru thota for nearly 2 hrs. We left bhatru mane at 4.00 PM and started to ascend KP.
With new rules and regulations we had to pay Rs 70 per head to the forest officials . We reached Mantapa around 6.30PM. We nearly rested till 8.00PM when finally Moon came on top of us after escaping from the cluthes of the dark dusky clouds ... It was really a treat for my eyes. I could see the whole KP glistening by the moonlight.....We started to ascend further, It was cool breeze that soothed our sweating body. We reached shesha parvatha at 11.00PM, We dined with the MTR ready to eat food packets. We further climbed to reach the peak of KP. Finally we rested y over there and quietly tucked into our sleeping bags. It was the day of lunar eclipse, Around 3AM I could see Moon partially covered by Sun. I dozed quickly only to get up in morning to find the clear sky awaiting for the sun to start his day....It was awesome. After having bed tea, we started to descend KP at 8.30AM. Wow the sight from the KP top is just amazing, All I wanna say that KP is just amazing.