 Hogenakkal
Waterfalls,
the 'Niagara' falls of India, offers a promising holiday
destination for nature lovers in the country.
Hogenakal Falls is
a beautiful water falls in the state of Tamilnadu, is a good
Picnic spot and also its wates supposed to have curative powers.
This beautiful, quiet waterfall is 40 km from Dharmapuri and
180 km from Bangalore towards Salem. Here the Cauvery River
enters the plains and the river dashing against the rocks
is a great sight. Hogenakkal is a riverside spa where, according
to its devotees, good health can be had for the asking. The
sound of the Cauvery, roaring between rocky banks, is a constant
presence in most places in Hogenakkal. The river, here flows
through a wooded valley, splitting and merging and splitting
again around rocks, and little islands with towering trees,
and boulder-strewn out crops, which are covered only when
the river is in spate with the rains of the monsoon. People
cross the current-rippled waters in circular basket boats
covered in buffalo hide or plastic.
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