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Wild Fruit Trail

Tumkur

easy-moderate
Difficulty
4.5/5
Shreshth's Rating
4.9 km
Total Length
141 m
Elevation Gain
2-3 hrs
Hiking Time
1 hr 27 min or 67 km away
Approx. driving time and distance

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Trailhead Location 📍 GPX file ⬇️
Trail Map 🔗
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Overview

This is a great trail and it has almost everything you could ask for except maybe a high hilltop. Forest, rock, and two water bodies!

And as the name suggests a lot of wild fruits that one can forage (⚠️ only eat fruits that you know for sure!)

⚠️🍒 Also note that fruits are seasonal! June, July, December and January is the best time to go looking for fruits.

Fruit trees found so far:

Fruits we ate. So confirmed:

  1. Jamun (Syzygium cumini)
  2. Passion fruit (Passiflora foetida)
  3. Governor's plum (Flacourtia indica)
  4. Longan-like fruit (I'm yet to id it)

Fruits that will show up in winter (confirmed the plants):

  1. Jackal Jujube (Ziziphus oenopolia)

Photos

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Trail description

So we start hiking on the mud road from the temple and in a few hundred metres we're in the forest. And soon after that you reach the first lake.

First lake

The first lake from this side of the trail has the rock slab on the other end and upstream from the lake, valley is towards what we hike.

Forest

You proceed further after looking at the lake and you weave in and out of the trees, a lot of wild native species and some of which produce edible fruits, we found jamun, jackal jujube, governor's plum, wild passionfruit (Passiflora foetida; ⚠️ eat only when ripe!) and few more that I can't recollect right now. Ask me (Shreshth) for photos of the plants and fruits.

Second Lake

The second lake roughly marks the turn around point for this trail.

We haven't swum in it yet, but looks fine to me (I will update here once it's confirmed safe to swim in)

🌦️ Season

The trail seems fine to hike in any seasion. But we first explored the trail in the rainy season, so yet to know how it'd look in other seasons.

🎟️ Permit

No permit required

🐾 Wildlife

Bears are present (I've seen their poop), so avoid night, dawn and dusk and cloudy/overcast days. Going in a minimum group of three, stick together and be loud when going through dense parts of the forest.

We noticed goat and cow herders in the forest, so the trail they usually take seems safer to follow (which is what I've marked on the trail map/GPX)

Cleanliness

Very clean. Almost no signs of trash.