Sirimane Water Falls

A wonderful waterfalls made by river tunga, while she descends over the western ghats. It was a long time wish of mine to visit this falls, as I had missed to visit during my college days with friends. It isn't that far from my native, and in fact its on the way back from b'lore to my native via Sringeri. A 16kms road from Sringeri leads to this amazing water falls.

This time when I started to native, I had in mind to visit this water falls, all information I had was it's about 5-6kms from Sringeri, and a nice road is there to reach to the place, but when I took turn to the falls at Sringeri, I found that its not 5, instead 15+ kms. anyways, I had made up my mind to go there, so we started to drive in that direction. I took almost 30+ min on that road, and I found that, the road is under construction we cant go any further, bike would have gone till falls. So I parked my car near a tree shade, and walked about a kms on mud road to reach to the falls.

It was worth the risk taken, risk I mean is that, I read in news papers, that Sringeri area is all occupied by Naxalites, so I was bit scared about going there since it is deep inside forests. In fact may be that is the reason there were no tourists except us. A couple came in bike, and asked about the route with me, that made me feel better as at least we are not alone. After seeing the falls, I was so happy as it was so silent all around and beautiful, and no crowd.

I think tourism department is making new roads to reach the falls, which makes it more accessible, already the mud road is complete and they are in the process of taring the same. Soon it will be complete, and once done, it will be more like Abbey falls in Madikeri. There is a stair case leading down to the falls, and a view point to watch the falls in case you don't want to get into the water. We have not brought extra clothes, and car was a kilometer away.

But we still got into water, it was so cold, and rejuvenating. The water falls is not that big, but it is really beautiful one. I splashed water on my face and felt heavenly feeling. Spent some forty minutes there playing in water and taking photos. There were none other than us, the couples who had come before us had left long back. We were already tired after the long journey from Bangalore, and this really made us little relaxing, but then we were hungry as it was already 1.00 PM, so we left from there with the memories captured in binary format.