A day’s trip to Awesome Bogatha falls

Most of my friends who are seasoned trekker, always said, trekking in the rains gives an awesome feeling. I have never done that and was really not sure that how many of us would really love to try that.  The moment, you think about the rain, you just feel like snuggling yourself with a nice book, aadrak waali chai and hot pakoras or take a football, play as you get wet…Well, my dream of getting wet and trekking came true, when I went to a place called, Bogatha Falls. It was quite a coincidence that it was raining all through the day in and around Bogatha falls. 

August 15, 2015 was as usual and that Sunday was something that I was looking forward too as I had scheduled myself for a trip to Bogatha falls, in Khammam district. Honestly speaking, I had never heard about this waterfall, that too within the radius of 500 Kms. According to the plan shared, it was a day trip.  We were scheduled leave on Saturday night, trek to that waterfall on Sunday and back on Monday morning.  This was a complete new group of people with whom I had clubbed to make this trip.  The trip organizer, Soorya was the only person, with whom I was constantly in touch. 

Soorya had meticulously planned everything for the entire group and trip was awesome not just because it was planned well, but the group of people who had joined me in this trip. According to the plan, our train was scheduled to leave Secunderabad station at 11PM.   I had an early dinner and then took a bus to Punjagutta, where Soorya had asked me to meet him.   Soorya and Atul met me at the Punjagutta circle and then took me to Vamsi’s place.  There, I met most of the people who were traveling with me. They had dinner and then after sometime we all booked a cab and left for the station.   At the station, I met few more people and then we all boarded the train.    The initial few hours was completely hellos and hi and get together kind of time for all us.   Most of us were yapping away till wee hours of morning.   Few of us decided to catch with sleep for few hours. The entire travel route was chilly and it was feeling good.

 About 4 AM, my mobile alarm was ringing on top of its voice, telling me it’s time to freshen before disembarking at the station.  The enthusiasm level were at the top most level and I was eagerly waiting to get started. The entire gang got down at the station – Bhadrachalam Road.   

Since it was quite early, we all wanted to have a hot cup of tea before starting towards the falls. As soon as chai was done, we all walked out of station.   

Soorya informed us that since it is quite a distance, he had arranged a maxi cab for all us to the reach the closest point to the falls. The route that we took to the falls was: Bhadrachalam Road > Cherla > Venkatapuram  > Cheekupalli Stream > Koyaveerapuram (Bogatha Falls), was only beautiful, but scenic.  The drilling rain, hillocks, & greenery was worth the drive towards the falls.  Our Smartphones and cameras must have groaned under the amount of time we clicked pictures on the way.  

 Around 8 AM, at Cherla, we decided to take a quick break to fill our tummy. We had a good breakfast of dosa/idli, chutney and sambhar, along with piping hot coffee.  Some of us decided to have poori& sabzi.  Once we were done with breakfast, we freshened up.  Our breakfast point was a family run eatery, and just right behind the eatery, they had their living premises.  They were kind enough to allow us to use the washroom.  It was about 11ish, when reached the bridge, which still under construction, we decided to change into shorts and t-shirts and start walking towards to the falls. 

The walk through the open lands with puddle was just fun.  Those mud puddles, allowed the child amongst us to come out, jump and play. What awesome feeling it was!! Given an option, I would redo it without a blink of an eye.  As we neared the water, the sounds of gushing waterfall was thunderous and it goaded us to move forward.  WOW!! Ooh!! Omg!!...well these were the reactions that we had when we saw the waterfall. We were like kids and were all diving into the water to have fun. Because of the rains, the waterfall had grown into huge magnitude and was gushing forward in full force, which could easily pull a person if they are not careful.  We spent about 3 or so hours in water, playing, trying to swim in the natural body,  (honestly, I was found it tough to swim in here, though I know swimming pretty well – but still tried, went inside the water, got pulled up…;-)). We had an amazing photo session.  Pavan, who is an amateur photographer amongst us, was totally into his camera, he was least bothered if his camera was getting wet while taking photographs. He took some of the amazing shots to create the memories which will be long cherished by us, wherever we go…

Once done with playing and photography session, we had to come out. Though none of us wanted this session to get over, but time was crucial for us.  So we had a bye for that time and move out of water.  We all slowly started walking back towards our maxicab.  As soon as we reached our maxicab, we all changed out of wet clothes and started to munch on the snacks that we had with ourselves. Since we all come quite close to Bhadrachalam, we decided to make a pit stop at the temple.  We all had a good darshan of Lord Rama and then all boarded the maxicab. 

It was almost 7 PM, and we had our bus back to Hyderabad at 9 PM. We all decided to stop for dinner, at a nice restaurant. After dinner we had cake cutting as one of group member’s birthday was there the next day.  It was good party time for us.  Dinner done, we all boarded the maxicab. The driver dropped us at the bus stop.  Boarding the bus back to Hyderabad was the most poignant moment for us as we were still in daze, thinking about the waterfall.  But as it goes the saying, all good things have to come to an end, we had to accept the same. But still trip was awesome…

Met, made some amazing friends during this trip.  Now, am looking forward to another trip with this gang again….