Usually as a pattern a bad day is mostly followed by a wonderful day but as we reached our car we found we were blocked in by another car, Oh well, smile and ask for help was the motto and it worked out eventually we managed to get the other car moved lost 20 minutes there and started out again, we were off to Tirathgarh waterfalls(seen above). The roads were 2 lane to start with and soon narrowed out to single lane as we entered the kanger valley national park, road was lined with trees, dense forest and a we hope we would not get lost, in spite of Googles direction and network of Jio being with us, inside the jungle is another story.
We reached the waterfalls parking lot A-Okay, and were charged Rs 50 for parking, Entry fee was Rs 20 per person and Rs 20 per camera and another Rs 40 parking by the forest department too.
As we paid and got our necessary permits and tkts we could hear the roar of the waterfall, and 100 meters gave us the 1st tiny sighting, we walked 100 steps or so, down to see the full waterfall.
The waterfall was huge, wide and high, looked like four waterfall coming together, I had seen many pictures of this waterfall and it had seemed Red in color, today there was a good bit of water, and thus more white, we had trekked down to the bottom of the waterfall and could see the water come roaring down towards us
. We managed to get a few shots before a whole bunch of revelers it for a bath in the waterfall, we made a few images of them having fun too. Tirathgarh waterfalls drops 200 feet approx.
There is a monkey menace
here, but we just kept our stuff (bags, camera, water, tripod) close to us, and
we were fine, the monkeys are not too aggressive, by 0930 hours we came up the
steps as we came up the steps, and saw a lovely sight of a couple of baby
monkeys sleeping with there mother, and the moms too were sleeping, it was so
peaceful and lovely to see this sight, making a few images of the scene and feeling there peace on us ( reminded me of stories of Lord Ram having come this way during his vanvaas, maybe there is more then meets the eyes here)
we settled into a breakfast at the waterfall
store, today too was Aloo vada and Medu vada, with Tamrind chutney, We had our
fill and as we sat here, we met with a Cinematographer from Raipur/ Mumbai,
Anubhav, we had some quality time together as Anubhav shared his experience
with us on his film making career over 6 years,
Kumbh Mela, and he did give us some tips on what else we could do , that
was off the beaten path , non touristy places to visit. It was the sort of conversation that one
travels to experience and we sure had a lovely time,
finally around 1100 hours we took his leave and drove around in the Kanger Ghati national park, we drove and sat in the roadside and watched the day slide out, and by 1245 we started back for Jagdalpur,
stopping 15 km from Jagdalpur for lunch at a wonderful dhaba/hotel , the food was oh so delicious and felt almost home made.
roti / sabji / daal / raita was just so good and we ate to our fill for sure.
Post lunch, we headed back to our hotel REEKA in Jagdalpur, unfortunely there was no electricity in the hotel and neither did it have a generator, so we had to move on to find some place to hang out, it was quiet warm and this dark room did not look inviting as such, we were told it might be 1700 hours before power would be restored, so we drove to Bastar palace.( it was not on our agenda but now it seemed to be an appealing idea)
We spend a quite 45 minutes there, and then went looking for Narayanpal temple as per direction from the security guys at Bastar palace.
Narayan is Krishna and true Krishna style kept us guessing and we did a good 60 km of going to 2 places where we were told was the way to Narayanpal temple and both turned out to be not so , it was getting dark and we started back for Jadgalpur by Ram Vangaman path ( Lord ram had used these roads while going to Vanvaas) well we reached back by 1900 hours and there was no electricity still, so we headed out for dinner, to the hotel next door, and spend a good 75 minutes to have a slow dinner, and back to our hotel by 2100 hours, we decided to check out of this hotel and managed to score a room at STF resort in Chitrakoot,
This would be our base for the next 2 days with a huge bedroom and a living room and tiny garden behind, the resort not up and running yet online but all amenities are there and staff
really friendly, highly recommended.
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