From stressful life, we always try to get some fresh air, relieve and enjoy serene beauty in tranquil place of country side; there comes Hogenakkal - so we planned for it on the day of Udagi - The Telegu New Year. When the water falls on the rocks it appears as if hoge (smoke in Kannada) is emanating from the top of the kal ( means rock ) because of the force of the water, that’s Hogenakkal (smoking rocks).(From wikipedia). As not being very much familiar with tamil name, initially I was pronunciating as "Hogenikal" - my pronunciation changed after seeing name on the direction board for the first time.
We started from Bangalore around 6:30 am, the driving was smooth and exciting as road is full of flyovers. From Bangalore, we took hosur road, sun rise was awesome as it is being viewed as fireball from the newly created hosur rd flyover. From hosur, we took few more fly overs to reach Krishnagiri - Black colour rocks. From Krishnagiri, we reached Dharmapuri. The road side view was very nice as it was full of greens. As being hungry and thirsty for a cup of cappuchino, we searched for CCD. Alas; we had to quench our thirst for a cappuchino with Rs 5/- coffee in a road side tea/coffee shop. From Dharmapuri, again we started for our destination Hogenakkal - The smoking rocks. There were 2/3 police chekpost before entering Taminadu. As being a Bengali, we had to break our patience to make tamil police man understand that "We are coming from Bangalore and going to see Hogenakkal". One guy was suddenly knocking the glass of the car window once we reached Hogenakkal. Suprising he was giving me a coupon for car parking of the car while entering Hogenakkal. I was trying to make him understand with my all possible deaf and dumb Tamil gesture but I couldn't. Luckily one guy came and saved us. We immediately went for the boating after reaching Hogenakkal. The boats were different from Normal one. It looked like the boat that has been used in "Roja" movie. It looked like a bath-tub for babies and very strong enough to carry 10 people in one go. The local people call this as "PARISAL". In Hogenakkal, lot of waterfalls have been created as river Kaveri falls from the oldest rocks. The sailor took the boat near the main waterfalls and tried to give a feeling as "mid of the mist", the natural cave and finally to the island. Hungry and thirsty poeple was able to quench their thirst from the floating shop while enjoying the scenic beauty of kaveri. In the island, local housewives were frying fresh fish and selling them. As being a non-vegetarian, I could get and taste of the fresh fish. The taste was awesome. After waiting for few more time in island in scorching heat, we came back by “Parisal”. There was a hanging bridge to give a top view of the waterfalls also and it was really nice. Near the hanging bridge and under one small falls, one bathing place has been created artificially to give the feel of "Cave of the wind"
Then it was time to come back to Bangalore but this one day trip and smoky rock was gave us immense pleasure and we could enjoy a lott.
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