Chunchi Falls

Chunchi Falls is located in Karnataka near Kanakpura about 70 kms from Bangalore.

It was Saturday, and I had returned after playing cricket, had a shower and an omlette for breakfast and was relaxing and suddenly my friend bumped in with his wife and said we all are going to Chunchi Falls. The name Chunchi falls by itself was a little funny and so I was a little skeptical to go but as it was a weekend I had nothing else so great to do and so thought lets go and see whats in there. We started at about 1.30pm from my place from Kormangala and crossing the traffic of Bangalore we reached the Kanakpura Road. The road from Bangalore till Kanakpura is decent for about 40 kms and then you get a bumpy ride. The construction of road is going on at various places and the rain has made it all worse. After a drive through all this way for about 2.5 hours we reached a sign board which said that Chunchi falls is 5 kms to the left and straight road takes you to Mekedatu. We came to know from a tender coconut seller over there that we will get nothing to eat at Chunchi falls as it is a very remote a place, so we decided that we will go to Mekedatu and have something as most of us didn't had the lunch.
Mekedatu means "goat's leap", its a place where the water from river Kaveri flows in but its so shallow that we can cross the stream by just walking through it.
We took a kind of the lunch in Mekedatu and headed back to towards Chunchi falls. When we reached "THE" place what we found is there was nothing but a few cars of others who had nothing to do on the weekend just like us.
Chunchi falls is a beautiful place, a part of nature still not polluted by public.
To our bad luck what we found is that there was very little water to Fall. As such by the time we reached there it was about 6.30 and almost dark, so most of us stayed back but a few of us started tracking towards the falls. The place is good for tracking a little bit (about 1.5 km). The only mistake I did was that I wore a jeans and so it was a little difficult to pass on through the rocks, but I managed somehow. If you are planning to go make sure that you have proper tracks to wear to make it easier. We touched the water, took some pics and started the way back towards where our cars were parked. On the way back it was very dark but we managed somehow to track back. One thing to note is that to touch the water we have to go down so while coming back it is like climbing. Reached the car and started back.
We reached Bangalore by around 9.30pm, had the dinner at Meghna Biryani and reached home.
In all it was a good experience, for me atleast.

A few thing to remember while preparing for Chunchi Falls:
- Wear a proper attire for tracking.
- Carry some items to drink because it might dehydrate you a lot while tracking
- Try to reach the venue in the first half of the day so that you can enjoy it the most.

While coming back we decided that we will visit again for sure.

I will post the snaps as soon as I get it from my friend.