After reading a number of blogs on Hogenakkal, it was always in my must to visit list. So on second Saturday of this month I visited Hogenakkal falls with my wife and relatives. I booked a Tavera from Geo Travels in Marathalli and service from them was very good. Our cab was arrived at time and we started from our house at seven in morning. After two and half hour of drive, we took our break and had tea on a roadside stall preparing tea in a boiler stove. Just before Dharmapuri we took right and after that the road is picturesque. At ten and half we reached Hogenekkal and then the real fight begun for hiring a boat.
Bargaining with the boatman was tough as they started asking for a four hundred fifty and some how agreed for two and fifty per person. Hogenekkal is having a number of falls and you have to go for a long distance in the local made boat called coracle. The flow of Kaveri river is huge here and surrounding hills and forest makes this place a beauty. The boatman will take you upto waterfalls where you will get wet in drizzle coming from falls. At most of the places, water from falls hit the rocks below and comes out as smoke. In between all of this, we had lunch which we took from home.
After this, we went up to main falls and had some awesome photoshots there. The main falls is one of the beauty and scary in itself. After that we started for going back. The only thing which was not good about Hogennakal is its designated bathing area is worst and so its better you have bath in the river somewhere else. So we also went in river near main falls only and enjoyed a lot in water. There is also a hanging bridge and with some minimal charge we had a different view of falls from there. The full day for us was for boating, falls and feel of river running. At three we started back for
