Place : Mt Shasta, Lake Shasta, Shasta Dam, Caverns, Crater Lake, Sundial Bridge, Mossbrea Falls, Hedge Creek Falls, Mc Cloud

Route : Mountain View – I 5 – Redding – Shasta – Metford – Crater Lake

Kms : Ard 370miles from Mountain View, CA

Commute : Own Vehicles preferred

Visited On : 25, 26 and 27th Dec 09

Place : Chunchi Falls

Route : Bangalore, Kanakapura, Aldur, Deviation before Sangama, 6km to Chunchi Falls

Kms : Ard 90km from Bangalore

Commute : Own Vehicles preferred

Visited On : 16th Aug 09

It was a sunday morning, Poorna called me at around 4:30AM. I was all ready and I soon reached Prathi’s house. Poorna along with his wife Jyothi picked us both by 5:30AM. Our route for the day was driving in the lush green route of Bheemeshwari fishing camp and to visit shivanasamudra from there. Sp then we started driving towards kanakapura and the early morning drive will be always good. The entire road path was for us with fresh atmosphere.

We stopped in Kanakapura for an early breakfast at around 6:30AM and had Idly, a safer n best bf to have .  We started driving towards Bheemeshwari fishing camp. As we progressed, we changed the route and decided to visit Sangama and then to join our usual route. After some kms of drive, suddenly Poorna took a left deviation and then we got to know that it was becos of the board he saw which says “Chunchi Falls”. We reached the last point till where we could drive by ard 7:30AM. We got down and was looking out for the falls as it was not visible for that point. We saw a path going down and we followed the same. As soon as we saw the falls for the first sec, we were like WOW !!!! . The above picture says it all about itself.

It was like no mans land. Except we four none were there. We were quite surprised as we expected many as it was a weekend. We enjoyed every sec over there and had all kinda photo shoot aswell . It was around 10:30AM  when another group came in which followed by lot many. Then we decided to leave that place by 11:30AM. We didnt want to goto shivanasamudra now as we were all happy n satisfied souls with this beauty and also as it was still below noon, we thought of visiting Sangama. We reached Sangama at around 12:30PM and had lunch in “Vaishnavi Restuarant” . After lunch we walked towards the river but was very depreesed to see so much of thrash around and also so much of crowd. Then we decided to head back to blore without visiting any other place and cherishing our goog moments of Chunchi.

We had couple more photo session on the way back and reached blore by 4:30PM in the evening. We all aquired our places in Prathi’s house for a cup of nice hot tea . We had bajji along with tea and left to home by 6PM.