A trip to Adhirapally Falls

It was on the day of Onam we all decided to go on a trip to Adhirapally falls on the next day which is about 130 kms from our native place. While the course of talking we decided upon the transportation, people and a route which is not taken often to the destination. We took the way round that takes us to Tamilnadu as we thought we could add a few more places on the way.

So we started our journey at around 8am in the morning and the food was arranged by ourselves as there were about 7-8 families into the trip, each family took upon on the responsibility to bring something to eat. We did have a variety of food from Chicken, Beef, Fish, Ghee rice, Bread and many more items. The food was delicious and many on the trip did get the after effects of having the food.

As we moved on through the country locations of Tamilnadu, we stopped at a few places to refill and check posts. As we reached near our first destination Aliyar Dam we all stopped a place and had our food, then we all headed to view the beautiful Aliyar dam. The view was good from the top of the dam on one side you had big mountains and on the other side you had a great view of coconut plantations till your sight reached.

After that we all headed towards Adhirapally, on the way it was a god section and we all did enjoy the view as we were travelling and there were about 41 hair pin bends on the way to Valpari which was the next town and the border place to Kerala. As we were going to the top the dam looked smaller and smaller to our eyes. The weather en route to the Valpari was awesome it started to get colder and colder we turned each hair pin bends from a hot and humid climate back at the dam and we all enjoyed the weather.

On the way we stopped at the Waterfalls tea estate that had a small tea stall, we all had a cup of tea from the stall and boy the tea was perfect added to the light drizzle and a cold weather. We clicked a few snaps there and left from there to our destination. We passed through Valpari and it as a good place to visit though we didn’t stop there I liked the place, it’s a lot like Munnar with lots of tea estates and the place is less crowded. We then passed through Sholayar dam and finally passed the way making to Kerala.

Finally at around 10:30 pm we reached the Adirapally falls our destination and still seems funny that we reached there at that time. We left the place and we encountered with elephants at the way back and it was a bit scary as they had blocked the road for about half an hour just few feet away from us. Finally it gave the way and we were out of the place.
By the time we reached home we were all dead tired and so our trip to Adhirapally ended. Summing up it was a great outing and we all did enjoy, but the total distance traveled was very hectic and the funny part at the end that we didn’t even see the place that we headed out to see.