I was planning for this kind of a trip since long. Amidst time & work constraints,this plan could materialize only last Saturday. Five of us started on Sat morning:
Myself, Harsha, Girish, Krishna Murthy and Jayachandra. For those who don't know
we happened to be together during our Grads.
We started at around 07:00 from here. I had heard that you get good traditional breakfast at Kamat, near Channapatna. We prepared to have our next halt there. Had something known as 'Mude Idly', an idly made within a wrapped leaf. Don't know exactly which one.
For reaching this place, Sivasamudram, we had to take a deviation from the Highway near Maddur. For info, proceed along with the highway, without entering into the town, and you will come to a point where the road splits. Signboards are at help everywhere. The road was great till this point, but we had to settle in for a bumpy ride from there on, till the falls.
En route, we came across two old temples. One of them was this Lakshmi Narasimha Temple near MaLavalli.
We reached the falls at about 11:00. It was a wonderful sight with the water flow at it's peak, owing to a good monsoon. Most of you must have heard of this place: Sivasamudram. A place where the river Cauvery splits into two and falls down from a steep height forming two sets of falls: Gaganchukki & Bharachukki. Water is abundant around this time of the year.
We started for Talakadu at 3PM. The 20km stretch to that place was horrible. For our bikes, but it would surely be a nightmare for 4-wheelers. Hope they put on a proper road very soon. Talakadu, comes further upstream of the river. The river seems pretty calm at this place. Deep flow of water over the plains. Talakadu is mostly covered with sand. People had a story about it, about a curse put by the Queen of Srirangapatna to the King of Mysore, as a punishment to his greed for her money. But I prefer to look at other answers. Would let you know once I get them. ;-)
The ride back from Talakadu was awesome. With darkness already set in, we started Talakadu at 7PM, ready for a ride of around 150kms, back to Bangalore. Reached back at 11PM. It was a wonderful trip and we had a great time . . . :-)
Catch more photos @
http://picasaweb.google.com/sudhir.akondi -> Trip to Sivasamudram
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