The Great Outing to Aasanur

I went for an outing to Aasanur,which is in Sathyamangalam – Mysore Highway with my friends last weekend on 04th and 5th July. The trip was organized by my friend Ashik, there were totally ten people. We left Erode around 7 PM and reached Aasanur around 11 PM. We got a bus from Erode to Sathyamangalam. We reached Satyamangalam around 9 PM. There was no bus to Mysore there at that point of time so we decided to wait for some more time. After some 15 mins a KSRTC bus, but the conductor asked us not to board the bus as though there are thousand people waiting to get into the bus and travel till Mysore.

We boarded the bus and took tickets neither Ashik nor the Conductor knew the stop. It was a nice journey there were some 27 hair pin bends and it was exciting since it was a night journey through the mountain. Finally I went and asked the Driver about the stop and he said the bus will stop there in Aasanur for dinner. Thanks to my Kannada knowledge. Without which it would have been a little difficult. We got down at Aasanur check post around 10.50 PM. Ashik had already arranged accommodation so we went straight to our house. We settled down had dinner and watched Evil Dead – Part One and doze off.

Next day morning we all got ready by 6 AM and the person who is our guide also came at 6 O’clock itself to take us inside forest. Our guide’s name was CAPTAIN. He was an elderly man in his 50’s I believe. He took us through the road then we started climbing the mountain. He was fast moving in the mountains and we guys were tired, just in five minutes of time. We took some rest then started climbing again. I should say the climate was damn good. Aasanur is a part of the Western Ghats, it was cloudy throughout the day and there was little drizzling too. Captain said there are Elephants, Leopards, Porcupines and Wild Boars in this forest. We saw some porcupine thorns and Ashik took them with him. We roamed around in that forest area for sometime then decided to get down from the mountain and have breakfast.

We moved down the hill this time we took the road. We walked into a hotel down the hill in the village. We had good breakfast the food was good and cheap at the same time. Then we went back into the room around 11 O’clock. We decided to have bath, pack things and leave Aasanur by 2 O’clock so that we can all return to Erode around 5 O’clock. We watched the remaining two parts of Evil Dead and took bath. As planned we left Aasanur around 2.15 PM. This time we were all at the bus steps, hanging around and enjoyed the whole 27 hair pin bends. It was really entertaining and at the same time was dangerous as the curves were really sharp. We reached Sathyamangalam around 3 O’clock had lunch then got a bus to Erode. We reached Erode around 5.15 PM. That was an amazing trip. Thanks to Ashik, who organized such a lovely trip, I should say we all thought that it won’t be such a nice place but he proved we are all wrong.

That's our Gang with our Guide Captain. [From Left
Front Row: Siva Subramani, Kisore(Kishori), Abdulla and Muhseen
Middle row: Baskar, Captain (Our Guide), Myself and Siva Kumar
Last row: Yuvraj and Hari Gowri Shankar]

That's our Gang with our Guide Captain. [From Left
Front Row: Kisore(Kishori) and Ashik (Tour Organiser)
Middle row: Captain (Our Guide), Baskar, Abdulla, Myself, Siva Kumar and Muhseen
Last row: Yuvraj and Hari Gowri Shankar]