About Kanakai Waterfalls
Kanakai waterfall is located
in Adilabad district near a small village called Girnoor of
Bazarhatnoor Mandal. Kanakai waterfall is also called as Kanakadurga
waterfalls. The place has significant importance in the ancient history. People
from nearby villages come here to the temple of Goddess kanakaDurga. The other
things to see here are Bandrev waterfalls, Golusula madugu and cheekati gundam.
Ichoda is 272Kms from
Hyderabad on the way to adilabad on National Highway 7. From ichoda we need to
go towards bazarhatnoor via adegaon khurd, pipri and girnur villages. After driving
for 1 Km from girnur there will be a sign board pointing towards a dirt road on
the left that leads to temple and waterfalls. One can go by vehicle only till
here. From here we need to go on foot to reach waterfalls. You can stop at Girnur
village and ask for a guide. Make sure
you are accompanied by a villager, else you might get lost.
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| Route from Ichoda to Baazarhatnoor |
In continuation to the trip report of Day
1:
Last night we decided to wake
up by 7 am and pack up everything before 8 am as the school will start by 9 ‘o
clock. We woke up early at 6 ‘o clock. By the time we came out of tent it was all
mist around. Because of heavy dew the outer layer of tent was completely drenched and was dripping
water as if it had just rained. Thanks to my Quechua T3 tent.
Not even a single drop seeped inside and moreover kept us warm all night.
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| Misty Morning and my Quechua Tent.... |
We
tried to shake off the water from the outer layer of tent, but our efforts
didn’t pay well. Later finished folding the tent as it was in the same
condition and stuffed inside the sack with great difficulty. We dumped the
entire luggage inside car and went inside village to have some hot Tea. Along
with Patel few other villagers are already there who started asking our
whereabouts, what we do and how did we come to know about their Gayatri gundam
etc. While having Tea we got to know few more things about the village and
local conditions like schools, medical facilities, crops they cultivate etc.
Meanwhile rajanna also joined us and ready to leave with us for kanakai gundam.
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| @ Tarnam Khurd |
We thanked Patel and villagers who were very nice to us. I was very much
impressed with the way they treated us like guests when couple of people came
to us last night and asked whether we are comfortable or not and asked if we
need anything. Feeling happy being around in such a village environment after
long time, we started walking towards our car with another task of exploring
kanakai gundam ahead of us.
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| With our Wagon-R |
Soon we are back on Highway towards
Ichoda. Ichoda is just 11Kms from Tarnam khurd. We had breakfast at Ichoda and
bought some biscuits and banana. We took a left turn from Ichoda that leads to
bazarhatnoor. We crossed adegaon and pipri villages. When enquired the
villagers of girnur about the waterfalls, they told us to check for the sign
board indicating direction towards kanaka durga temple.
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After driving 1 km from
girnur we came across sign board to our left with an arrow indicating to go
left. The condition of road from Ichoda was pathetic with many patholes. We
parked our car under shade of a tree besides the road and started walking on
the dirt trail which was motorable only if one can risk their car and was just ok for a 2 wheeler.
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| The Sign Board..... |
All we can see around is complete greenery of grasslands and
fields with lots of varieties of birds. We walked for about 2Kms and when asked
rajanna about the route he simply told us that he never came this way. With the
information I had gathered and the homework I have done on the route, I was
sure that we are very near to the destination but has to find the correct path.
We walked further ahead and asked a
farmer for direction to kanakai gundam. He told us to turn right from here and
go straight till we see gundam. We walked in that direction for about half
kilometer through the soya fields. And now we can see the river flowing down through
the gorges of rock formations on both sides. We found our way down near water.
The river flow here is very still which means the depth could be more. Standing
besides the river in a gorge, I felt like I am in a mini canyon. After moving
few steps ahead we saw a utensil kept on stones ready to cook on firewood. Thought
It might be the cooking setup of someone who came to work for firewood. I felt
like having nice river view lunch and camping. We went ahead further and three
people with baskets, fishing nets and fish were coming towards us. When asked a
person about waterfalls, he told that right now we are in Cheekati gundam, next
comes is Golusula Madugu and later will be kanakai gundam.
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| Dinesh @ Cheekati Gundam |
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| Spotted many birds here....... |
We thanked him and
started walking slowly by the side of water enjoying the surroundings. We walked
at the pace of tortoise clicking pictures and spotting different birds for
quiet sometime. We simply sat down at few places along waterside where ever we
felt like relaxing. Moving further ahead we came across a Y fork of the stream
where the right diversion of the stream is completely dry with rocks all over. We walked in that path for almost half an
hour till we reached a point where it is turning right and it’s no more a dry
stream, but filled up from here onwards. Now we got off the stream and started
walking towards right across the trees only to find another branch of dry
stream with rocks on the other side.
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| Relax on the Rocks... |
By now I understood that we
are lost, but still I am enjoying getting lost in this trek. None of us was
actually in a mood of tracing out the route. In fact Dinesh and arif are also
enjoying the trek to the fuller, least bothered about the route. May be it
because of the belief they had in me or even they might not have noticed yet,
that we are lost. Only thing we were doing is walk, relax, click, go where
the path leads to and simply taking a Left or Right when some obstacle comes on
the way. As I had looked at the Google maps of these places the day before we
started, I had chosen to keep on right side every time.
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| Rock 'N' Roll Trek.. :) |
After moving ahead crossing
the rocks and now along the side of water we came to a dead end where we are
left with no option but to climb the steep slope towards top. The stream had become narrow here and it was
shady, covered by trees on both sides of the banks. We climbed up to top with
little difficulty as it was all loose soil with tiny rolling rocks. Now we are on one side
of the canyon and we walked along the side of the canyon. We heard the sound of a
waterfall which was increasing as we are nearing it. In no time we are standing
in front of Bandrev waterfall. This is a slopy waterfall with number of
branches flowing down the rock face. We settled down under a tree with a nice
view of waterfall. Had bananas and biscuits here and captured video of
waterfall along with some nice pictures. After spending half an hour at Bandrev
waterfall, we started again expecting Kanakai waterfalls in the next few
minutes.
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| Bandrev Waterfalls |
Fun Time @ Kanakai waterfall:
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| Arif with Rajanna @ Kanakai Waterfalls |
In less than 15 minutes we reached
Kanakai waterfalls. This waterfall looks similar to Bandrev waterfall with
almost same height and pattern where as bandrev is wider than Kanakai with less
water flow compared to Kanakai. Here again we found a nice shady place under
trees with a nice view of waterfall. It was very pleasant under the tree with
nice cool breeze often passing by us. Meanwhile I checked if I can get down
through rocks and go near waterfall. Later decided not to take risk there and
went ahead in search of safe way down. We descended down making our way through
thick thorny bushes and slipping rocks. I decided to get into water and have my
share of fun in this natural pool. Me along with dinesh got into water and
slowly moved forward to check the depth with a stick in our hand. It was kind of stepped pool with flat rock under water. Dinesh swam inside to check the depth
and told the maximum depth could be 8 ft and better for me not get to into that
part of pool as I do not know swimming. I slowly moved towards the waterfall by
the side of pool at safer depth. I dipped number of times and done floating on
water as much time as I can and of course made a successful attempt to swim for
few feet distance which is definitely a morale booster for a beginner like me :P. With
my self confidence boosted up a lot now I started climbing against the water
flow to the top. The water was pushing
me away with enormous force. Sat there for quiet sometime and enjoyed a much relieving body massage with Jacuzzi bath.
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| Its me @ Kanakai waterfalls |
Arif who was sitting on the safe Bank till now got ready to
finally get into water and has got a nice snap of mine before he packed up his
camera. I reached top portion of the falls and had great time in the gushing
waters and the mini pools. We spent almost 2 hours of time In Kanakai
gundam. Unwilling to leave the place soon we finally started walking back to
the road at around 3 o’clock imbibed with loads of positive energies from the
amazing and pristine nature spread all around us.
Walk Back to the Car:
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| Where ever you go... U will find a water stream |
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| Padddy.... |
We walked along the canyon for
few minutes before we could see the river flowing on one side and the paddy
fields on other side of our path. The vehicles moving on the road are clearly
visible from here but in order to avoid going through the fields we tried
couple of paths that ended into bushes again.
Crossed couple of small agricultural canals and walked on the narrow
edges between paddy fields and often through unavoidable mud patches on the
way. We reached our car at 0430 pm. Thus ends our two days of waterfall hunt
well lived in the pristine nature away from the hustle and bustle of running
life of the city.
Thank you for the information sirnapally waterfalls in telangana
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