Sathodi & Magod Falls
Much
awaited Monsoon began, had lot of plans for this monsoon but after coming back
from Leh bike ride could not executed any of those plans. Deepu started mail
thread regarding plan for August 15th long weekend, decided to visit
Yellapura (paradise of water falls in Karnataka 😃). Seena arranged for
transportation for us. This time it was team of 14 members. All set for one
more vacation, keeping huge crowd on long weekend in mind we decided to take
one day off and start our journey on 13th August itself… 😃
Finally
the day arrived and we were all set to start our journey. Yellapur is around
425Kms from Bangalore and it is almost 6 hours journey since we take NH – 4
till haveri easily we can reach in 6 hours. We thought of leaving Bangalore at
10.30 PM (or max by 11.00) but heavy rain started from evening only, because of
rain it got delayed to start our journey as per plan. Finally left Bangalore around 11.30PM..!!!
Day – 1: Yellapur.
Reached
Yellapur around 8.00Am, finished our breakfast in Yellapur town and headed
towards Satoddi falls.
Satoddi
Falls is one of the most well-known falls in Karnataka. It is at a distance of 25
km from the town of Yellapur on the outskirts of Yellapur, traveling towards
Hubli, is the left turn that leads to Satoddi. Part of the road is an
all-weather road but a portion, nearly one-third the distance, is not motorable
during rains. I heard from my friends that, it is not possible to visit the
falls in rainy season. But if we go on rainy season then only we can enjoy the
real beauty of waterfalls.
Need
to walk around 500mts to reach the waterfalls from parking place. Path is not
so tough any one can easily reach the waterfalls in any season. But it’s better
not to get into water in rainy season.
Almost
all in this group were very good swimmers, we got into water and spent some
time in water. Since we went on weekday there was no crowd at this place. So
enjoyed our swimming at this place without any disturbance. Spent more than one
hour at Satoddi Falls and headed towards Magod Falls.
Magod Falls:
Magod Falls is situated 19 km away from Yellapur, in the village of Magodu. Here, the Bedthi River takes two distinct leaps to hurtle from a height of 650 ft. into a rocky ravine. To visit Magod falls we need to come back to Yellapur again and take Karwar road.
If
you are vegetarian then you can visit “Sri Krinshna Vibhava” (Bhattara mane)
for delicious food (Though you are a hard core non vegetarian once you should
taste food from this hotel). In peak hours it’s very difficult to get table at
this hotel, always it will be crowded. Finished our lunch and headed towards
Magod Falls.
In
Magod Falls you can’t get into water. There is no chance of going near to water;
from far away you have to enjoy the beauty of the water falls. It was time for
photo session... 😃
Jenukallu
Gudda is situated 17 km from Yellapur. The Bedthi River from Magod fall cuts
across the green hills and bounces all the way to join the Arabian Sea beyond
the hills. This place is a viewpoint in the Western Ghat, which offers a
panoramic view of the hills packed one behind the other. Jenukallu Gudda is one
of the famous sun set viewpoints, but we didn’t get a chance to view the sunset
because of clouds.
Our plan for that night was to stay in tent’s finalised couple of perfect place for camping, but last moment we changed our plans due to rain. Came back to Yellapura and managed to find hotel to stay.
Plan for next day was to visit Gokarna and on the way visit Shirley falls.
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