Day trip to Jog Falls

Since the monsoon season was in full swing over here, we figured it was the best time to see Jog Falls yesterday.

So we thought anyway.

During the monsoon season, you can see a lot of small waterfalls on the way here. But, as we found out later,the best time to visit this place is August-September.Although the journey is very long, its pretty enjoyable due to the constant sight of waterfalls of varied heights. Although if you're not into the aforementioned sights ,you'll be bored out of your skull untill you reach there.

We took a bus from Udipi to a town called "Sagar" (pronounced " Sag-ra " ) from which we were supposed to catch the bus to Jog Falls.

The bus personnel told us it'd take 4 hours to get to Sagar (which turned out to be 6 hours) and 30mins from Sagar to Jog Falls (which turned out to be an hour and a half). Do they use a different method to measure time here or something ?

This is where our bad luck started. I've always said Andre bought us bad luck while travelling because whenever he's along with us , the bus/train/airplane breaks down :P . But i was kidding. BUT I WAS RIGHT ! The bus brokedown in the middle of nowhere at one point. We had to wait for about an hour in this crazy little town in the middle of nowhere before the breakdown bus arrived.

Seven and a half tiring hours later we reached the mighty Jog falls. Its pretty cool to watch the spectacle of the river sharavati taking a leap at a height of about 292 M.There are 4 distinct falls - Raja, Rani, Rocket & Roarer. These names are assigned owing to the distinct characteristics of the falls.

Raja : dignified and serene fall

Rani : Winding and twisting fall like that of the female dances

Roarer : This stream appears out of a mass of rocks making a lot of noise

Rocket : Consists of large volume of water streaming out of a small opening at a high speed.


I had heard earlier from someone that the falls would be a big disappointment.I kind of agree. But its mostly because we caught it at the wrong season. We were totally wrong in assuming that the falls would be in full swing right now because the rainy season's begun.

We spent some time running around enjoying the falls and went around monkeying there with the various viewing spots they have created ,although they have shut off the way which leads to the base of the falls for now which was a huge disappointment.

I heard that there is a point where the sharavati river actually converts into a fall and it is a mindblowing experience to go to this point and that we can literally experience the whole mass of water tumbling down with a big noise. Unfortch , we couldnt check it out because we were way way behind schedule and had to book our Taxi's back to Manipal asap. Noway ,were we going to take a bus back after what we went through in the morning.

After booking the Taxis, we were all a little hungry. The driver told us that there were not many options other than the KTDC (Karnataka Tourist Development Corp) where we could have nice south indian food.So we headed to Sagar in the Taxis for dinner at some random restaurant. The food was okay. My french fries and Masala Papad were burnt beyond recognition though.

There was not much we could do here so started for our next destination , Home ! 5 hours later , we were back in good ol'Manipal . I should mention that our "Andre Bad Luck" made the taxi suffer a tyre puncture TWICE on the way back. Haha you just cant make this shizz up.

Damn i have never been so happy to see this place than i was at that moment lol.

You can check out all the pictures from the trip on My Facebook Album or here :



So Jog Falls..... worth it ? Yup. Just make sure you get a taxi to go there and not a bus. And make sure you catch it at the right season.

-Teh Cj