Trip to Shivasamudram ,Sangam and Mekedatu

Last weekend we had one day trip with my husband and his team to list of waterfalls around Bangalore.Best List of lovely places for water lovers out there.We started our trip morning 7 and got breakfast packets.While going we enjoyed the lush green corridor of Bangalore and game of Dumb-charades,Well!We acted on funniest of movies and thoroughly brain stormed our knowledge on movies to make the boys loose, the game ended tie.

I didnt realise when we reached Sangam where the river Arkavati confluences with river Kaveri .The ride of beautiful round handmade boats called Parisal take us to other side of river.The boats are ones which I had seen in movie 'Roja'.Cute ride as water level not very deep and one could slowely reach the place of great natural beauty.The right place to experience water and take a relaxing dip to cool oneself.My daughter had a great time there in her diapers.She didnot want to come out and that made our trip memorable.I noticed people cooking marinating chicken and enjoying country style food,I tell you aroma was too tempting.

From there we head to Mekedatu ,Meke(goat) datu(leap).A gorge 3.5 km downstream drive from there all along the river course. It is a cascading waterfall gushing through a narrow gorge and flowing through a ravine of granite rocks and hence one of the favourite spots for people.There is a staircase taking you down there and mindyou donot carry food, monkeys follow you if u donot share your chips.We enjoyed the great gush of
river Kaveri and scenic view down there from rocks which were hot and shining.

We had our lunch coming back at a place right at entrance where hot fresh food made us recharge for further
journey to Shivasamudram falls from there.We take Malavelli route from there and it is 20km from Malavelli,lies in Mandya district and one of the majestic falls of Karnataka.There are Bharachukki(western) and Gaganachukki(eastern) falls which are must for real time experience. Shivasamudra was first hydroelectric power plant for Asia.The city of Bangalore was the first to get power in India.Is it not amazing??We enjoyed a local sour fruit and headed back to home and day was successfully closed with good night sleep.

Distance in kms-
1)Sangam 89 km from Bangalore via Kanakpura
2)Mekadatu 4km from Sangam
3)Shivasamudram falls 125km from Bangalore and 60km from Mysore

A humble request to all you people out there,Please do not leave plastic waste,we being educated crowd are doing lot of harm by throwing bottles and packets there and destroying our gifted natural wealth.......