Trip to Waynad : A part of God's own country.

Hi All ,

Again one more update in our travel guide.


This time we planned to go for a two (25th & 26th Dec 2010) days trip to waynad and gopalswamy hills.
The very special of this trip is all the EGB members are came to this trip(since last 3 years this is 2nd trip all  are going together)
Team includes some other friends also.
Here the team :
Roshan , Prasad ,Jeevan,Narasimha,Chetan,Anil,Prathap,Amar & Madhu.
Prathap,Amar & Madhu are my(Anil) Nanjangud friends.

From Left : Prathap,Roshan,Chetan,Prasad,Amar,Narasimha,Jeevan&Madhu with cameramen Anil

we all(EGB team) left Bangalore on 24th evening 6'0 clock and reached my home Gundlupet at 11.30PM.
Next day morning at 8 we left my home and started our journey towards waynad.
waynad is just a name of district in Kerala.

How to reach :

Bangalore - Waynad :
Route : Bangalore - Mysore - Gundlupet - Sultan Battery - waynad.(NH 212)
Distance : 270 KM.
Journey hrs : 7-8 hrs.


Important note : You need to cross karnataka border and also need to cross forest.
This road is closed from night 9PM to morning 6 AM. so don't plan overnight journey.

then we had breakfast in the kerala border itself , since we need to pay extra road tax for going to kerala.
Again we started our journey to Edakal caves, but unfortunately we didn't able to see that place since a construction work is going on so that place is closed for two months.
Edakal caves is trekking place , and you need min 2-3 hrs to see this place.


Sultan Battery - Edakal caves :

How to reach : From Sulthan Battery continue in NH212 for about 5 km and there you need to take left turn which will take you to edakal caves.you can see many direction boards.
Distance : 25 KM from Sultan Battery
Journey hrs : 30 min

but these are the pic's which i have taken in my earlier visit to Edakal caves.

Edakal caves,waynad,Kerala.

Edakal Caves to Meenumutty water falls :


How to reach : From Edakal caves you need to take village route which is good enough and you have many direction boards which will help you to reach meenumutty falls easily.
From edakal cross its just straight route for about 14km.
Distance : 20 KM
Journey hrs : 30 min
Entrance fee :  30 Rs/person.


I suggest fat ladies/gents and also old people not to go for this trekking.
To see this falls you to go only by trekking for about 2 KM(one side) in a forest area,they made route to falls.
We all started our trekking in beautiful tea estate and also through the forest.

While going to Meenumutty falls.

Here is the meenumutty waterfalls.


Meenumutty Falls,Waynad,Kerala



Meenumutty Falls,Waynad,Kerala



In Front of Meenumutty Falls



After coming back from Meenumutty falls,good trekking for all our friends

Its a very dangerous falls so the security people are not allowed us to play in the falls. so we just took some snaps and come back.

Meemumutty water falls - Suchipura water falls :
How to reach :

Meemumutty water falls - Meppadi - Suchipura water falls
Distance : 25-30 KM
Journey hrs : 30 - 45 min
Entrance fee : 25 Rs/per person.

While going from Meppadi  to Suchipura water falls you will find some beautiful tea estates you can take some snaps in between the tea plantation.

Here is some of our snapa taken in tea plantation.



Ever Green Boys
Prasad,Anil,Chetan,Roshan,Narasimha  & Jeevan




Madhu,Anil,Amar & Prathap

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We reached suchipura water falls around 3.30PM then started walk towards falls its about 1 km from the parking area. In this falls you can play in water and obviously all our friends are started playing in water.

Suchipura falls,waynad,Kerala

Ramp Show in Suchipura falls.

After this we returned back to my home (Gundlupet) and that's it for first day.
Saturday night we had enough discussion on different matters and we slept at 2'o clock.

Sunday morning we planed to go to Gopalswamy hills and started at 9 o clock from my home.

Gopalswamy Hills :
How to reach :
Bangalore -Mysore - Gundlupet - Hangala village-Gopalswamy hills.
Distance : 220 KM.
Journey Hrs : 6 hrs.

We reached Gopalswamy hills around 10.30 and went temple and then started going inside the forest and we are able to see two elephants from far distance.
we all walked around the hills and spent 2 hrs then returned back to my home.

Himavad Gopalswamy Temple on top of Hill

A Scenic View of Gopalswamy Hills



An Elephant we saw inside the forest




On top of Hills



Finally all friends are about leave my home and started their journey towards mysore.

My friends with Appa,Amma,Anna,Atge @ my home

That's it from the center.
with cameramen Roshan.

 Anil , Waynad,Gopalswamy hills & Gundlupet.
  See you soon with our next update.
Bye Bye 2010 and Happy New year 2011.