Lose-Yourself: A RAILWAY TRACK TREK TO REMEMBER

A RAILWAY TRACK TREK TO REMEMBER

Author: Suman // Category:

MY FIRST TREK EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!

About Dudhsagar: Dudhsagar is a waterfall in the Karnataka- Goa border. It is on the route connecting Londa in Karnataka to Vasco in Goa. It can be approached either from Kolem in Goa or from Castle Rock in Karnataka. Dudhsagar Falls (literally meaning The Sea of Milk)

Six of us (Anil, Anirudh, Kani, Akshar, Cena, and Suman ) left to Dudhsagar from Bangalore on Friday evening .We started our journey on a train...... It was a tiring journey to me , because i couldn't sleep well...(but others did!!)
We were in Castle Rock railway station at 4.30 in the morning.Actually its a very small town and only railway employees stay there....We relaxed in railway guest house till 6.30 am ,and started our trek.

We were not knowing the distance from Castle Rock to Dudhsagar falls. We asked many people in the station and their answer varied . Within few minutes we were walking on the tracks surrounded by dense forests.
There were leeches all around the place. It brought back my memories of my friend Puneeth(putti) who had done a similar trek on Sakleshpur .

This is a busy route with many trains running and we could find trolley men all along the route. Also, the bridges and tunnels are not scary.....(but putti had told me that it would be scary)

(Dense forest)
we found a beautiful waterfall,which was small ,next to the track. There we had
our breakfast and it was already 9.00 am...
Then after the small breakfast we started our trekkin....After walking for 5km, just before the fourth tunnel, we crossed into Goa .....

In another half an hour , we reached a station called Karnazol or something like that . A goods train was waiting for signal at this station. The station master told us that a train was expected to arrive shortly and we could take

that train go to Dudhsagar. When we said that we had come to do a railway track trek, he told us that we were crazy. But anyway, he was a nice guy and he told us that we need to walk another 11 km for the falls.
We resumed our walking there..... After resting for 30 minutes near the station we started our trekkin again......
It was around 2.00 pm when we reached Dudhsagar Railway station...we were literally exhausted we didn't even had water bottles with us ......
Then we came to know that Dudhsagar falls was still a km to go...

Dudhsagar falls has a marking approximately equal to 42/000 marking, we had trekked for 16 kms from Castle Rock. The view of the falls came as a relief to us. A railway bridge passes through the dudhsagar falls.
It was filled with water. The falls had formed a small pond at the base. But it would have been a disaster if we had thought of swimming there....The force of the water was too much....

But we did swim in another pool which was to right of the falls....There were few people near the falls. We were the only ones who had taken the trouble of walking while others had come on train (available from Goa side).
After swimming in the water for 2 hours or so....we left to dudhsagar railway station and we waited for the train for around 2 hours...It was 6.00 pm...We were worried and it started raining heavily.......To our luck a goods train came and stopped in dudhsagar railway station
and we boarded the goods train, it was a nice experience to go on a goods train......Then we got down at Kolem and from there we went to Ponda and stayed there .....The next morning we left to Panajim and we had our breakfast there.......
But goa wasn't so much fun as that of dudhsagar.........
It was raining heavily....so we couldn't enjoy much in Panajim......though we had got a free room.

Goa experience will continued in the next post.....
THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

There will be no food available in any of the stations
TIME NEEDED: 4-5 hours

THINGS REQUIRED FOR THIS TREK