Gerosoppa Falls or Joga Falls is the second-highest plunge waterfall in India, Located in Sagara taluk, these segmented falls are a major tourist attraction. They are also called Gersoppa Falls and Jogada Gundi.
It is located on the Shimoga and Uttara Kannada district border.
Jog Falls is created by the Sharavathi River dropping 253 m (830 ft), making it the second-highest plunge waterfall in India after the Nohkalikai Falls with a drop of 335 m (1100 ft) in Meghalaya.
Sharavati, a river which rises at Ambutirtha, next to Nonabur, in the Thirthahalli taluk and takes the northwesterly course by Fatte petta, receives the Haridravati on the right below Pattaguppe and the Yenne Hole on the left above Barangi. On arriving at the frontier it bends to the west, precipitates itself down the Falls of Gersoppa, and passes that village (properly Geru-Sappe), which is some 29 kilometres distant, discharging into the sea at Honnavar in North Kanara.
Note : Above reference note about Jog Falls are taken from wikipedia , More details about Jog Falls are available in WIKI.
Experience with Jog Falls :
We visited Jog falls during end of July 2013 , and when we visited Jog , there was heavy rain falls , visibility of waterfall was zero as it was surrounded by mist , but during those hide and seek whenever jog was showing its presence we got only one word to say Majestic ,yeah it was really majestic , and we enjoyed lot with its beauty, Best time to visit Jog falls is July to August.
Our Journey and route map (Reference from Google Maps) :
We planned our trip in this way - We will start our journey by 5 A.M. , we always keep 2-3 hrs buffer for spending some time for all those scenic view whichever pass through during our journey. so based on all these calculation we though we will reach shimoga by 1 pm and another 1 hrs for Thirthahalli , yeah we decided like this way , first day we will spent time in Thirthahalli and early next morning we will head towards Jog Falls , and while returning back we can take rest in some hotel in Shimoga , our preference was Royal Orchid for shimoga.
I was going through various home stay option in to spent one day at Thirthahalli area, and finally booked Bananki Homestay , I always prefer credit card payment , and best thing was that , bananki homestay is listed in stayzilla as most of the other homestay wasn't available, well we planned to see jog falls during 27th July 2013,
From Bangalore we started on 26th July 2013 somewhere near 7.30 AM ( planned was 5 A.M.) ,
We have taken route for Thirthahalli : Bangalore - Nelamangala - Tumkur - Tiptur - Arsikere - Tarikere - Shimoga - Mattur - Thirthahalli.
After Tumkur road trip experience was amazing , we stopped couple of times to enjoy nature and capture couple of pictures , near Tiptur we were blessed to see family of Egyptian Vulture and my husband did not miss the chance to photograph them , of course without disturbing them.
We spent some time watching them and had our Tea.
Then Started our journey and after some hours again we had to wind
up our journey near Arsikere left and right view of Sunflower Paddyfield
was amazing , we clicked some images even though it was raining :-)
after couple of Hours we started our Journey , Just before we reach to shimoga, we got a call from arpitha from banaki homestay and she informed us that Honavar road is blocked due to heavy flood in Tunga river ,
and she guided us very well with alternative route , well local confused us and
they lead us to Honavar road only , but we were lucky road condition was not
that bad , there was flood but drivable , instead we enjoyed the beauty of Tunga river attached to Honavar
road, Flood look was scary but adventurous, first time was saw flood and we were thrilled to see it, Shimoga to Thirthahalli drive via Honavar is a rain-forest , and during raining season we were experiencing heavy rain fall , we were unable to see anything through windshield even though wipers were in full speed.
Finally Some Pictures of Flood.
Finally reached Home stay at 3 PM , and when we reached to Homestay , arpitha and rachan
welcomed us very nicely, Location was awesome. Service and everything was
perfect , we were four people along with an infant kid, and we didn't felt any
issue. we liked food quality too , but our relative they didnt enjoy taste of
food , most probably first time they had different flavor of food , overall we
enjoyed a lot during our stay.
Next Morning we had heavy breakfast and started our journey to visit Jog Falls. Thirthahalli to Jog Falls drive is in via Ghat Section we enjoyed it. We reached a point from where Jog falls can be seen , Large number of visitors we were unable to find a place to park our car and our young Kid got frustrated and started crying badly , hence we were unknowingly parked car in No Parking area, and we left for view point, Jog visibility was very less due to mist and fog , but whenever it was showing its presence we were just saying word awesome. We came back to our car as Trafic police was complaining about Car parked at no parking area , then kavi went in a mission to find proper car park area to park the car , he reported it was really tough time to find car park area.
Tourist Enjoying Beauty of Jog Falls
Majestic Jog Fall
After visiting jog falls we headed to Shimoga, and we stayed one night at Royal Orchid Central,
Everything was perfect ambiance , cleanness and most important polite staff, we
had tasty dinner and next morning we had really tasty breakfast which was
included in our package.
After having Breakfast we just roam around Shimoga district and then we though of visiting Shimoga Zoo Also known as Tiger and Lion Safari Zoo, nicely maintained zoo , we were blessed to see melanistic leopard , First time in life we have seen melanistic leopard and we were so happy.
Some Pictures from Zoo.
We clicked some images in zoo and then we started our journey back to Bangalore. Overall a Great Trip
What We missed :
1) Jog View from Other side ( Back side)
2) Gokarna : Gokarna is 200 km from Thirthahalli , Gokarna is famous for their temples and unspoiled beach like Kodalu beach and Om Beach.
3) Missed to see Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary ,
Agumbe and Chibbalagudde due to flood in Tunga River.
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