Life - A travelogue to death

I can be so sure of this theory because, I hardly knew these mates for 3months and haven’t met them in my entire life before, but now they are my closest friends. So, we all alike minded, same frequency guys had set off to Hoganekkal.

Hogenakkal Waterfalls (A.K.A Hogenekal, Hogenekkal, Hoganakal, Hoganakal,Hogenakal, Hogennekal, Hogennekal, Hogennakal, Hoggenakal, Hoggenakkal, Hoggenekal, Hoggenekkal, Hogennakkal, and Hogennakal), known as the Niagara of India, are not a single waterfalls but a series of falls. The falls situated in the Darmapuri district of Tamil Nadu is about 180 km from Bangalore and 46 km from Dharmapuri.

We reached there early in the morning by, about 7:30. We got

down the bus and freshened ourselves by a speedy brushing anda face wash, as we were pretty sure we are going to have a good bath at the falls. We were tagged along by localities asking if we require a guide or a boatman for exploring the place. We ignored them and proceeded to a tea shop for having a cup of tea n some snacks. We then walked towards the shore where we could get a boat to view the picturesque sceneries all way through. The boat is not an ordinary boat it’s a coracle, locally known as ‘Parisal’ in Tamil and ‘teppa’ or ‘harigolu’ in Kannada. This circular shaped coracle is made of bamboo sticks tied together making an inverse arch structure and coated with tar or some sticky material at the bottom on stretched hides, and believe me its too heavy. We bargained with some oarsmen and finally got into one coracle, with the rate they told us. The bargaining didn’t go well with them…… lol JJ. We got into it carefully as instructed by the rower and took the window seats…. lol J. We coursed though the river flown from the waterfalls enjoying our Mother Nature.

The water was still, since the whole water body was enclosed by big walls of rock(But as we near the falls, the current get increased ). Onthe way we could see Small kids jumping into the 50 ft deep water from a great height. They were fearless, as if it’s a child play. I mean they are children, but it’s not a child play. The oarsman understood that we are from Kerala from the jokes that we made during the travel. He told us that Malayalam film actor Mohanal came here for a shooting and the place they shot is nearby. It was fun when we tried to row the coracle and cracking jokes all the time. The greatest thing about nature is that it teaches us to forget our entire burden in life. We saw lot of small waterfalls flowing while we row though. We halted in a small island where we had our lunch there. Don’t expect a restaurant with buffet there. It was a place where local-ite ladies prepare fried or smoked fish with rice and ‘idly’. But to be frank with it was awesome. We changed our clothes since we would have to take a bath in our next halt. We all wore swimwear’s and again hopped in to the coracle. The rower told us that some places which are restricted cus this entire falls belong to two states – Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Where some of the falls belong to Karnataka andsome in Tamil Nadu. He also reminded us and moreover showed us the place where ‘Chinna Chinna asai’ song of tamil movie ‘Roja’ was shot. While rowing through, along came a mobile eatable shop in a coracle oat where we could buy stuffs like chips biscuits, etc. I wonder there are infinite ways which people make their livelihood.The travel was not at a stretch. We had to get down at a place, walk a little distant, while the oarsman carries the heavy coracle and again row towards the falls

Moreover, why should keralites like us take an ayurvedic massage from another state when the ayurvedic oils are been regularly used in our home. We got immersed ourselves in the cool clear water where the currents were medium low enough to get a good swim without getting drowned. For any help our rower was near us, keeping an eye on our bags and dresses.

We stayed in the water for along time playing and pushing each other into the water and taking some snaps [Explicit Content Suppressed]. We then called our rower and enjoined that we shall move on. We all got into the coracle again and rowed back to the starting point. On the way back he showed us some tricks to row the coracle differently, rotating it rapidly but still moving further. We praised it and he got happier. The more we praised the more rapidly he did it. In no more that 45 mins we returned back to the starting place. Payed the money to the rower as fixed and thanked him for giving such a wonderful trip.

We then waited for the next bus from there to Dharmapuri. As soon as it came we got in to it and from there we got a bus towards Bangalore. I then caught a night train towards Chennai from there.

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