Thursday, May 3, 2007

Hanadka Falls - Simple, elegant, beautiful

Hanadka falls, some of my college juniors had explored this falls and informed me about it. At once I felt eager to see it, I called up a few friends to ask if they would like to join me on the trek. I was informed that this was a very simple trek, and even the falls was not all that dangerous. It was around March and so that would reduce the water in the falls, still it would be a good one -that's what my juniors had told.
Finally only two of us Mahesh and myself decided to go on the trek. Both of stay near Indiranagar and by chance we got into the same us... till the KSRTC bus-stand we were discussing about the job/work and related thoughts.
We reached the bus-stand and then searched for a decent bus to board. We boarded a bus to Dharmasthala, which took got us there at 5:30am. We had our morning breakfast and then caught a bus to Ujire.... From Ujire we had a cab that would take us via Mundage to Kaddor. We reached kadoor before sunrise and, started our trek, we reached the junction where we have board that states... "Welcome to Kudremukh National park". We asked a persona at this junction as to which was the direction of the falls, we followed instructions and reached the fork where a bridge had broken down. We asked the people who were hanging around the bridge the direction for the falls and they directed us to the left turn there. We followed the path and reached the last house on the route. We asked them for directions, and they told continue ahead and you will find a stream... walk through the stream and reach the falls.
When we were contemplating on the suggestion, we were encountered by an old lady whom we asked the same suggestion and she was kind enough to take us along the route to the falls. We reached the falls following the direction after she had left and relaxed. We reclined in the shadow of the falls for around 2 hours, nibbled away thesnacks which we had got along and then decided to try out some photography.
The falls was a simple elegant jump that the water collected upstream would do. Through years of erosion, some of the stones had chipped off and fallen on the ground. This was still an untouched paradise, we could see birds chirping around, carrying our their daily chores. People staying way from the falls and that is why wedon't find much plastic accumulated around there. We could see the kudremukh range if we turned our back to the falls, some clouds that would try scaling them. All this combined making it a paradise. I just hope that peopledon't spoil the natural balance here. Its just too good.
After the break we got back... nothing much to say about the journey back.. except that the jeep was too crowded...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful trek logs... thanks for sharing...

Sachidananda Benegal said...

you are welcome :)

Anonymous said...

the pic is really nice, good one yaar:)

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Unknown said...

the pic is really nice, good one yaar:)