Shivanasamudra Falls

respite from a bangalore ...visited barahchukki falls (also called Shivansamudra Falls)..

How to Reach -

1) Any bus going towards mysore will drop you at Maddur. Small town on the way.Next is to catch a bus from here to 'Satyagala Hand Post' (it will pass through Malavalli)...next to dargah a auto and few kilometer walk to the place..

2) Incase you have your own conveyance then follow Kanakpura road from Banshankri and you will reach Malavalli a bit early.

Falls -

There are two falls, barahchukhi and gagancukhi ....both together are called shivasamundra.

TimeLine -

Off Monsoon - Barahcukhi as gagancukhi will not have enough water.

On Monsoon - Best time to go.

Our Trip -

We reached falls about 11 o clock, the first rock on the way to water downwards was splitting into small droplets which were making place a kind of shower.We decided to reach near the top and sit inside the water, flow was very fast and was a bit of indirect to reach.

Gagan was wearing his cap and was enjoying a lot, i asked him to give me his cap as he has natural protection of hairs. In the process of giving me cap he lost his control and his specs were lost in the water.

few people from chandigrah came there and we all start singing the songs (whatever we remembered). They also left in some time.We were like the last warrior and we decided to sing a song one for all the punjabi singers..but within 10 mins as flow was increasing we came down.

suddenly a group of grils came up following them was crowd of some 50+ people. (amazing !!).

we left the place to reach the top, there was a way on the left and we reached top, be cautious while climbing uphill.There were few people already there and some students drinking there.

We sat there for some time and came back to main road from top

Earlier we were thinking "jo upar jata hai vo vapis nhi ata" because there is easier way back from the top and we followed that.

Caught a auto and a bus to way back to bangalore.

Not to forget there were not decent food on the way and ended up having a big meal for the day at Punjabi Rasoi (HSR Layout) which beautifully complemented out trip !!

It was great fun for Saturday !!

for further details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivanasamudra_Falls