So you have visited this place before and your friend asks if you would like to come again .. most of us will say no, justifying that visiting a place once is enough. But Sharawathi Valley is not one of them. So here is account of a second trip.
And this time it felt better than previous one.
So plan was same, go by bus till Kargal, get private vehicle to reach kattinakaru. And following two days visit waterfalls where few souls have been. This time we were five. We were late to reach Kattinakaru as there was no private vehicle to pick us up from Kargal. We took bus which started at 8, by the time we reached it was 9:30. By the time we started our day's trek it was 11. Our target for that days waterfalls was around 6-8 kms. Though we had started late we were happy to be back again in same valley. We could feel the pleasant changes.
As route through jungle was full of leeches, our guide suggested the river stream route. I had done it before but not in monsoon. This was fun. Taking the jungle route whenever it was not possible due to deep water level or stream becoming fast. We trekked through river. It was around 3 pm and we had not reached the waterfall. We had to reach back to our homestay, which could take 3 hours. We guessed that by the time we reach back it might get dark early due to cloudy day in a jungle. So we decided to return. On the way we found a decent waterfalls where we took bath and enjoyed a while in the chilled water. The way back was from jungle with lot of leeches. It took less time than we anticipated. Once we came out of jungle on a green patch, lunch was ready. The guys we left just before jungle started had prepared it. Happy to be back before dark. We had lunch around 5:30 and headed to our homestays which was around hour or so walk.
Homestay this time was really amazing, we experienced great hospitality.
The best thing about such outings is morning. You wake up getting out from your warm sleeping bag and feel gentle breeze. You step outside the house bare feet, hear birds chirping, sweet fragrance in the air of rain, flowers, grass and trees. You look around everything is so beautiful. And you say to yourself thats why I come here.
Next day after having breakfast we headed towards Bhimeshwar waterfalls. We took cab ride, which dropped us five kms from waterfall. The route to the waterfall is gentle, we reached there in hour or so. There is beautiful temple just next to waterfall. From here you can see a splendid view of the valley of thick forest. Our guide got busy preparing lunch for us and some of us got crazy and had fun in waterfall. I took lot of pictures of temple. By the time we had bath in waterfall, lunch was ready, nice rice and sambhar.
We were ready to be back after a while though heart wanted to stay there forever.
