Hogenakkal Falls or Hogenakal Falls is a waterfall in South India on the river Kaveri. It is located in the Dharmapuri district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu,about 180 km (110 mi) from Bangalore , 350 KM from Chennai , 110 KM from Salem and 46 km (29 mi) from Dharmapuri town. It is sometimes referred to as the “Niagara of India”. With its fame for medicinal baths and hide boat rides, it is a major site of tourist attraction. This reference is taken from wikipedia , and more details about Hogenakkal Falls available at WIKI
Here is a various routes from Bangalore to reach to Hogenakkal Falls
Route 1 ) Silkboard junction -> Hosur -> Haleseebam -> Palacode -> Hogenakkal Waterfalls
Route 2 ) Silkboard junction -> Hosur -> Nallaganakothapalli -> Samanthamalai -> Dharmapuri -> Hogenakkal Falls ( Via NH7)
Route 3) Silkboard junction -> Electronic City -> Anekal -> Denkanikottai -> Hogenakkal Waterfalls
Route 4) Bangalore -> Kagalipura -> Kanakapura -> Hogenakkal Waterfalls
This was my 5th visit, and this time also we had taken , safe and smooth route which is Route1. once we had taken Route 2 , since we had plan to have breakfast at Kamath. one of my friend told me about route 4 which passes through forest area, and this is a short and adventurous route.
I will always recommend Route 1 and second option would be Route 2.
We have planned to start by 5 am , which eventually turned out to be 7.30 am from silk board junction bangalore , and finally we took off at 8 am from silk board , we took elevated flyover and its straight road till hosur and as per the plan we had gone through Route 1. We stoped in various places for photography , and finally we reached by 12 o'clock.
it was crowded Sunday, but manage to park our car in between two car with less than a feet gap, phew it was a tough parking. the moment we got down a monkey snatches our whole snack packet from muki's hand , and they started eating, this view was totally enjoyed by my little one , and moment horrified Mr. Mukibul.
It was very Hot so we decided to take boat as soon as possible and head towards Island. We always enjoyed this boat ride , River in between two rock mountain and you are going by coracle ride what else we need :-).
On the way to Island from coracle ride we clicked some images.
We reached Island within 20 minutes , Coracle rider told us waiting time would be half an hour , so please come back within 30 minutes , there after he will charge extra money if crosses 30 minutes ,
well we knew it that we will cross 30 minutes. he stopped his boat near places where fish seller were selling their fried fish , from there one has to walk ~= 100 meters , on the whole way to island fish seller ladies will be behind you to buy fish from them , well we were not interested so we denied.
the moment we reached island we jumped on to island and we walked through stream to other side of river , we kept our bags, camera bags and we jumped on to island, enjoying stream in Hogenakkal Waterfalls is best part , our son totally enjoyed it :-).
Island Image:
Everything is awesome here , View of beautiful waterfalls , the push of island streams , coracle rides , and when rider whirl his boat that is a really awesome experience.
What i disliked here -> (1) For maximum tourist whole waterfall is dust been, they were throwing their all kind of stuff here and there. here you can notice amount of garbage at one of the waterfall.
2) Another part we disliked is Oil Bath , people were taking Oil Massage ( this oil massage was like they are applying full drum of oil on their body ) followed by Bathing on river using Soap , this act is totally destroying beauty of river and eco system as well up to some extent. I wish people should realize this very soon.
After coming back to main fall we took some pictures of main falls and by 4 PM we started back to Bangalore.
Main Fall and other stream images :
