Kanyakumari - Kashmir Round Trip - Day 33 - Chittoor - Hogenakal

Day 33 - Chittoor - Hogenakal (stay in Hogenakal)

Kilometers covered - 256 KMs

Walking - 6000+ steps

Started by 7 AM from Chittoor, AP and reached Vellore Alankar Hotel for breakfast. It was so delicious - had aapam, idiyappam and sambar vadai :) 2 cups sambar to drink :) and a strong filter coffee.

Visited the Vellore District Co-operative IOCL pump to fill CNG & Petrol and Shri Ramesh Babu Agency, Krishnagiri for another CNG filling. Reached Hogenakal by 11 AM.

Checked into Hotel Tamilnadu, Hogenakal and the first visit to the waterfall followed. Mahadevan took an oil massage - I'm not fond of massages and hence skipped it. It was too crowded, we took 20 mins shower in the main falls and came back to the hotel for lunch. 






Post lunch, took a coracle ride - Five falls, cine falls, Karnataka border, Manal medu etc.., The government has fixed rates for coracles and it has been standardized now. There's also an option to bargain - depends upon the crowd and shrewdness of the traveller. 

We had a good ride - the phase near 5 falls was awesome :) the water spinkles all over and the coracle will dance as per the waves - simply superb. I too another bath at Cine Falls (thanks to the dryfit outfit I chose) There was no crowd in Cine Falls and hence spent more time here. Reached the hotel around 3.30 PM












A short nap till 5.30 PM and went for a longgg walkkkk - on the way - masala puri, pani puri and chai :)

2 dosas for dinner in Hotel Tamilnadu restaurant and good nighted by 10 PM

Luv,

Krishna & Mahadevan

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