It was quiet long since I had met my engineering friends. One such holiday somewhere around October, we all decided to meet as all of us had been now connecting from home. We decided to meet at our common place near Karkala and later head out somewhere.
We all reached Karkala around 11 in the morning. And started searching for some falls to go around. But most of the falls were closed, and we were left with the last option of Sirimane falls. Without a second thought we drove from Karkala to Shringeri, a journey that usually takes around 1.5-2hours.
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| A hanging bridge on the way to Sringeri |
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| View from the hanging bridge |
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| View from the hanging bridge |
On our way we had quiet a few pitstops to finally reach the Sirimane falls entrance near Kigga. But to our dismay the falls had been closed for sometime now due to some maintenance work. They had blocked all roads leading to falls.
We stared exploring near by places, asking a couple of local for more info. Finally we found one more falls, not much explored, Maghebailu falls. This ones near Kigga, around 5-7kms inside Kigga. The road leads directly to the Maghebailu house, where one can park his vehicle.
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| Maghebailu House |
Enquiring at the house, they told us about the way to take to reach the falls. Also, they asked if we would like to have lunch at our return, to which we happily agreed.
The walk to falls isn't that tough, though one has to walk for roughly around 2kms. The path too is well walked one making it easy to identify. The walk goes through coffee plantations, water streams, forest, etc, making one to keep an eye on leeches. Finally after some 40 mins we reached the falls.
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| En-route to falls |
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| Wodden logs near falls |
The falls was absolutely stunning. It was so calm and serene, with nobody but just we friends there. We spent some time enjoying the beauty of falls and headed back to Maghebailu falls, where we were severed lunch.
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| The Maghebailu falls |
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| The Maghebailu falls |
Finally post lunch we all headed back home. Maghebailu falls is absolutely beautiful, not much crowded and very peaceful making it a perfect one day gateway.
