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Dudhsagar Falls is the second
highest waterfall in India and proved to be a real challenge
to get to. The road which would normally take you there by Jeep
was washed out by heavy monsoon rainfall and a raging river was
now flowing over it. Alternately, we hired several motorbike
riders to take us up to the falls. The ride up was on a very
narrow path along the loose gravel of the railway tracks, over
several makeshift log spans. We even had a collision between
two of the three bikes. After about half an hour we had made
it as far as we could and had to hike the rest of the way along
the tracks in the rain. Several hours of walking later (and scrambling
to get out of the way of oncoming trains in tunnels) we made
it to the falls which were spectacular.
The trip back was just as harrowing,
I ended up with several leeches on my foot and we didn't get
back to the bikes until sunset which meant that we had to negotiate
the same narrow, winding trail in the dark. Sometimes the journey
is just as amazing as the destination.
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