We approached him and got our tickets booked to reach to that place. Since its a dense forest we were in little confusion without knowing any routes. Heard from local villagers that the dense forest contains of Bison, Wild Boar, Snakes, Cheetahs (not confirmed), Fire Ants at all times and Blood Sucking Leeches during rainy season. Managed to get prepared for the trip with what ever we can manage.We reached Dindugal on 13-03-2010 and took some rest in his house. We started to trek in a small mountain to get prepared for the next day trek. Had little fun in near by village by taking bath in the flowing water from thalaiyar falls, having coconut water, talking and walking, traveling in Pat Pat etc.
The real day has come to start our trek with what ever fitness we had. It was like we are going to tie our eyes by ourselves and trek in an unknown place without any route. The day was Sunday 14-03-2010, time was 9:00am. We started to reach below the mountain through an Patpat. Took cameras, Leach socks, First Aid kit, extra clothes, Lighter, LED lights and Energy bars. At around 9.30 we reached the foot hills till where the patpat can go (it was friends patpat, so he dropped us near the foot hills). 
Till this mango tree the Patpat had route to drive. From here we have to walk our way to reach the falls. It was like we are hired by "Discovery" channel for a television program called "Survivorman" or "Man vs Wild". Of-course the inspiration came from these programs. All brave and young (young at 
heart) hearts gonna take risk inside the forest without any protection . Took few snaps from here. We know its going to be a tiring trek where we have not practiced before or attended any trekking with help and advice. But we planned to keep every thing in mind what we saw in the television and how to protect us without any help.
heart) hearts gonna take risk inside the forest without any protection . Took few snaps from here. We know its going to be a tiring trek where we have not practiced before or attended any trekking with help and advice. But we planned to keep every thing in mind what we saw in the television and how to protect us without any help.
Due to very hot summer the falls was dry and that's the reason we had planned for the trek. If the falls, overflowing with water... we would have not planned to go as it will be highly risky to go and we may slip and fall from the huge rocks. To beat the heat, we were tying a towel around our head and started walking till "Amma Machi". Its a place where the villagers gather at one occasion to reach the temple inside the forest.
Till the temple the route was clear as we had the path to reach. We had also asked few of village friends to join us, thinking they can identify and spot the animals easily. They were very carefully keeping every step and checking for any wild animals. They were actually rushing fast to reach the Amma machi temple. As bison's may cross and might be dangerous for us.
After a long walk we reached Amma Machi temple in about 1.30hrs or so. We all took some rest and got ready for the real trekking experience.
Slowly after resting we started to climb the rocks, jumping, hiking.., even crawling at places where we cant walk inside the caves (in-between mountain blocks). Can smell the fresh air, pure water, chirping birds sounds, cool breeze.., in-between all these, we were asked to return down before 3:00PM. As again bison's may come down in the evening to drink water.
At one place we had no way to step further than getting down in water. Our village friends first went down the water to check if there are any deep holes. And the answer for this is "Yes". One part of the rock had a depth were it may get us stuck inside. They also found another way there itself where the water will cover us till the chest. We removed our pants and covered our cameras, kept on our head and stepped further. We could not take much snaps as we had only one thought that we will get late in returning. And we do not want to get stuck with any animals.
We almost reached the place but yet we need to trek for another half an hour to go below the falls. But here we find it very difficult to climb as we had no ropes to climb or no practice to do that. Without proper training we must not try climbing any big boulders with ropes, as they might be dangerous even for a well trained person. The depth of the rock to get below the falls might be around 30 - 40 feet approximate. Though it was heart breaking, we had a good trek in the deep forest. It was fun climbing rocks but very dangerous too. I actually forgot to say about the fire ants, they were also called soldier ants. They try to bite as much as they can, till we kill them. If we try to chase them from our body, they try to hold tight on us and start biting. They don't leave us till we really push them down or kill it for our safety. The forest is just filled with 10000000........ ants and its nests.
We had some energy bars, drank fresh water from the running water and started getting down from the rocks. Heart was heavy that we could reach the end. We didnt want to be sad for what we could not do it. But in fact we want to make use of what we get the most. We even took bath to refresh ourselves from heat, and had great fun. There were times we even lost the returning way, struggling for the finding the way. Near to the Amma machi, again we need to run as fast as we can. As the time was 4:30pm and we were worried about bison and other animals.
Here is the real time comes regarding the wild animals. The villagers started hearing a roaring sound. They stop walking and closely watch to know what animal it is. At the second roaring sound they identify it was a wild boar. The villagers were asked us to run and climb any tree. we dont know to climb tree but we stood in groups of 2. But some how I managed to climb the tree and checked if the boar is near. Lucky that it was not near nor we were crossing its path. We again started walking very very fast. Villagers were showing the foot prints of recently crossed Bison and its shit. Our heart was beating very fast. All wanted to escape safely. We even planned to light fire so that nothing will near us. But that's a bad idea till the last moment. As it might get fire in the forest easily. We didnt want to do that. Some how managed to escape thinking if any animal attacks, we try to attack their eyes. Animals are very particular is protecting their eyes. A small guts at the corner of the heart. :-)
After all the fun and fear we reached "Manjalar Dam". And after hours later we took rest at this dam fearing that animals may come any time. We called an auto man to come near the dam. We had no strength to walk further. We were lost out of energy. But the day went in memories where it cant be erased for life. The next day I had a very wonderful sleep (Due to body pain :-)).
We made sure that we didnt liter inside the forest. We brought all the plastic waste we carried.
Word of Caution : This post is just to express our experience we had. Since its highly very very risky, this post here not to guide you by any means to travel there.
