Shivasamudra is town , and it is famous for two water falls Gaganachukki and Bharachukki Waterfalls , and its place where Asia's first Hydro-electricPower stations was installed. At Bharachukki Falls one can take bath and can have boat ride , i am not sure about Gaganachukki as we couldnt visit during current visit,
We were planning to visit these waterfalls from long back , and when parents arrived to Bangalore we decided to execute it , we visited Shivasamudra during mid of December 2013 in our own car.
Route direction -> Nearly 140 km from Bangalore, and we had taken Nice road.
Nice Road , then exit to Kankapura road , if your are entering into Kanakpura road from Outer ring road then fine , On other ring road all the way to JP nagar one has turn left on Kankapura road , if you are going via NICE road then carefully notice about kankapura exit , other wise you would end up crossing exit and U turn is little away to get in Kanakpura road again. Take kankpura exit , on kanakpura road there is no confusion , Drive straight on Kankapura road approximately 70 km on NH 209 , ask some one regarding driving direction at Malavalli town.
We always preferred Kankapura road if any destination falls via this road , Left and right greenery is just awesome , well it is not that awesome now as it was earlier than 2010 , one can notice number of lakes on left and right side of the road throughout the road , our recent visit to Shivasamudram and left and right view really disappointed us , once upon time of beautiful lakes are now either converted to farm land or it is taken for some building construction. all these development are really developing society or we are going towards some thing bad, well right now i will leave about this , its our old emotions with those lakes , where we spent hrs and hrs enjoyed nature , spent most of the hours watching birds.
so lest get back to NH 209 to Shivasamudra , road conditions are fine , but its single lane , and some people drive really bad on this road , so be careful while driving , and if you are driving in your own prefer to start early from shivsamudra , avoild night driving.
We stopped to some place 30 km before Malavalli town , view was amazing , sugar cane view and landscape was so beautiful , we had taken Tea here and relaxed for some time , from home itself we packed our lunch and kept tea in thermos , Some scenic view Picture from this place.
Sugar cane Paddy
After crossing malavali take left or ask some one about driving direction for falls , after taking left towards shivasamudra falls you will find 3 bridges , very narrow bridge , i guess it can accept only one vehicle at time , with little skill it can accommodate two small hatch back type of cars.
We did a mistake during our trip , we straight way went to bharachukki Falls and spent most of our time there , around 4 pm we thought of moving back and we decided on the way we will cover gaganchukki , for gaganchukki all the people started giving various direction , even our navigation map did not help us :-( , and we wasted our time driving here and there and it was already sun down , then parent told we will leave for Bangalore as it was already getting late.
after coming to bangalore i closely looked into map and found that there is small way after coming from malavali , one has to take left which lead to Gaganchukki, Just after one week we recommended friend this way , first visit gagan chukki and then bharachikki and he successfully visited both the falls.
i am adding driving direction map here.
Some More Pictures of Bharachukki Waterfalls ->
Please do share with Friends and Family , This information can be helpful for those who are planning to visit these Falls.
