Stage Two
If some rest and/or food is on the agenda, Bhattara mane (House of Bhat family) is the perfect place. He charges Rs. 80 for plain rice, sambar, curd, pickle and rasam.
From Bhattara Mane the path is little flatter for about 1-1.5 km and consists of going over small hills. Stage for the trekkers need to register with a forest office check post at a nominal cost of 200/Head. There are two observations platforms between the bhattara mane and the mantapa. The ascent from here is gradual and the mountain face is covered with thick green grass. This stage culminates near the top of the mountain which is covered with thick forest.
Read more about this topic: Kumara Parvata
Famous quotes containing the word stage:
“We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.”
—Gail Sheehy (20th century)
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)