Donigal: This place is an adventures trekking destination, if you trek all the tunnels its wonderful and it may cost 1 day of your trip.  You can go to the tunnel entrance in 2 ways one is going to the railway station and walk from there to the tunnel its around 2 to 3 km (roughly) you have to walk through the track, check with station master or someone available in the station about the train timings and its better to plan your trekking after the monsoon timings because this place situated in the heart of western ghats.

There are around 58 tunnels present from donigal to Yedakmuri station, managlore to bangalore  trains using  this route and 2 passenger trains also there I guess.  I have told about the two routes you can use to  reach the tunnel, for  the second one you have to come towards maranahalli and there is a shop after 3 km(around) left side of the road, shop name is  Soniya Store its a malayali chettans stationary shop, from there  you have to take the left road, it will connect to the tunnel starting, keep asking people if you have doubt about the route they are very kind and helpful.

This is first tunnel's entrance and we didn't have any pass/authorization letter to do the trekking as per our friend in sakleshpur we dont require any pass to trek. we met some railway officers/ workers  in this place so they asked to walk through the side not through the rails because if train comes in between you wont get panic etc. These tunnels are not very big tunnels around 500m after one tunnel you will get some free space again next tunnel will start, we trek around 5 tunnels and planned to wind up our trekking because we have other plans are already scheduled if we trek there we will miss all the other plans

so we wind up our trekking and head to our next destination :kadmane tea estate.
Total trekking is around 20km [donigal to yedakmuri]

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planning a trip and executing it’s a big deal for most of us, especially if you are bachelor.

If you have  2 or 3 days leave in hand and you are ready  for a trip I can give you a wonderful plan for Hassan and sakleshpur trip

You can chose your vehicle as per your preference  either car or bike.

 this route is good for  bike trips . Me and my buddy made a bike trip to this place recently and we covered almost all famous destination in this area which we can cover in 2 days.

So let me give the brief description about the places which we covered in our trip  
1. Donigal [Tunnel railway route/ railway station] 
2..  Kadmane Tea Estate []
3.  Manjarabad Fort
4. Bisle Ghat
5.  Bellur
6.Halaibidu
7. Shettihalli Church

We have started our journey from Bangalore around 4 AM,  our first target was reaching sakleshpur and get a room keep our stuffs safe have break fast and start exploring sakleshpura

our travel was safe and peaceful met some other biker gangs in road chit chats, its around 225km is there from Bangalore to Sakleshpur we reached saklespur around 8.30 am [we drove slowly ] our main aim is to cover all the place as we can,so we took one economical lodge available in the sakleshpur city itself.
lodge name is gandharva I guess,  which is suggested by my sakleshpur friend Yogesh.
If your with family / girls then you can try ashritha its little bit expensive,
finding a hotel/lodge is not big deal in sakleshpur because its a small town. or you can book some home stays all are available and easy figure out.

after having the breakfast and a small nap we started our trip officially to the first destination
for day 1. We have planned donigal, kadmane tea estate, and manzarabad fort for day 1
manzarabad fort is a kind of  hill top and good place for sunset view so we planned to reach there by around 5 O clock.
donigal is a famous trekking spot that's what we heard from yogesh and don't have much idea about this place, like how to reach the tunnel route exactly
so we planned to visit this place  first and to visit kadmane tea plantations depend on the timings.

So this is the places we have visited in day 1

 1. Donigal
 2. Kadmane Tea estate
 3. Manjarabad Fort

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Day 2
 1. Bisle Ghat
 2. Belur
 3. Halebidu
 4. Shettihalli Church

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