Hyderabad to Sathoddi Water falls - Gokarna & Murdeshwar.

[Anand Singh]

Dear friends,
This is my very first travelogue in India Drive. Though I have made several trips, I didn't write anything up here. 

Travel Date 03/31/2018 – 04/02/2018 from Hyderabad to Gokarna & Murdeshwar in Ford EcoSports.

 

This must have been one of the most exciting and in a way unplanned vacation, I had with my office team. Though we had marked the dates almost a couple of days ago, we were a little unsure till the last minute whether we wanted to really go to Gokarna or not.

 

Finally, on Thursday we decided to go and informed my team to come to office on Friday along with their luggage. Friday Morning, I had a good Sleep so that I can drive in night.

 

My team works in EST timings, so we planned to start our trip by 1AM but due to some work it got delayed to 3.00AM and Finally we hit the road at 3.15AM.

 

Route Taken:

Hyderabad - Mahbubnagar - Raichur - Sindhanur - Hubbali - Sathoddi Falls - Shivapura Hanging Bridge - Yellapur - Gokarna - Murdeshwar – Raichur -Mahbubnagar – Hyderabad.

 

Total Distance: 1600 kms

Day 1 : Sathoddi Water Falls and Shivapura Hanging Bridge. 

Day 2 : Gokarna & Mudeshwar

 

Night Stay at White House Beach resort (Tent Accommodation) - Gokarna 

 

 

River Kali

Murdeshwar Beach

 

Shivapura Hanging Bridge

 

 

 

Sun Set time at Murdeshwar Beach 

 

Murdeshwar Night view 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sagar]

@Anand Singh Wonderful travelogue brother.. Very short and crisp. Where have you stayed on your first night after starting from Hyderabad and How much was the camping at Gokarna priced at?

[sahil]

[mention=661]Anand Singh[/mention] Wonderful travelogue brother.. Very short and crisp. Where have you stayed on your first night after starting from Hyderabad and How much was the camping at Gokarna priced at?

Amazing pictures. Temple gopuram looks very beautiful in the night.
You have been to the hanging bridge as well. Nice[emoji108]

[Gowtham]

10 hours ago, Anand Singh said:

Hyderabad - Mahbubnagar - Raichur - Sindhanur - Hubbali - Sathoddi Falls - Shivapura Hanging Bridge - Yellapur - Gokarna - Murdeshwar – Raichur -Mahbubnagar – Hyderabad.

 

Beautiful pictures and good writeup.

 

Can you share more details like 

1.Total no. of days

2. Overall road condition

3. Hotel pricing

[Anand Singh]

2 hours ago, sagar said:

@Anand Singh Wonderful travelogue brother.. Very short and crisp. Where have you stayed on your first night after starting from Hyderabad and How much was the camping at Gokarna priced at?

Thank you so much @sagar. By night 9PM we were at gokarna and before starting from hyderabad i had reserved the tent accomdation for Rs 1200 and i found it reasonable for 4 people. 

 

2 hours ago, sahil said:

Amazing pictures. Temple gopuram looks very beautiful in the night.
You have been to the hanging bridge as well. Nice

Yes, it is on the way to sathoddi waterfalls. Water falls are very deep into forest and driving was crazy.

[Anand Singh]

I missed the pic of sathoddi waterfalls. Here you go

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Ranger said:

 

Beautiful pictures and good writeup.

 

Can you share more details like 

1.Total no. of days

2. Overall road condition

3. Hotel pricing

 

This trip was very short for 2 days.

 

Road was good till mahbubhnagar and then we entered into hell and moved around 20kms very bad.

 

Road construction work was going on. From Raichur road was as usual with lot of speed bumpers.

We reached to sathoddi waterfalls around 2.00PM and spent some quality time, on the way back we went to shivapura hanging bridge.  

 

While searching for accomdation i found white house beach resort. It is on top of hill and it gives experience of off road driving. It is tent accomdation but not near beach. You have to drive around 5kms to reach om beach or kudle beach.

 

I reserved it for Rs 1500 but they gave discount and finally paid Rs1200.

[Gowtham]

33 minutes ago, Anand Singh said:

spent some quality time, on the way back we went to shivapura hanging bridge

 

Waterfalls looks very good.

 

34 minutes ago, Anand Singh said:

I reserved it for Rs 1500 but they gave discount and finally paid Rs1200.

 

Thank you for the information.

 

34 minutes ago, Anand Singh said:

lot of speed bumpers.

 

Karnataka and speed bumps have love affair. 

[sahil]

I think we should suggest everyone to choose Gulburga, Bijapur rout instead of Raichur rout from Hyderabad. Raichur rout we can't even touch 30/40 for some distance.

[Gowtham]

1 hour ago, sahil said:

think we should suggest everyone to choose Gulburga,

 

Road is good till Gulbarga, but once we cross Gulbarga, speed bumps again come into picture.

One cannot avoid speed bumps on Karnataka state highways.

[sahil]

 
Road is good till Gulbarga, but once we cross Gulbarga, speed bumps again come into picture.
One cannot avoid speed bumps on Karnataka state highways.

Ok.
I'm taking about this route. Thinking it would be good https://goo.gl/maps/J4cNQTRRPvt

[karthik]

Nice log.

Great to see information about unknown place.

 

2 hours ago, Ranger said:

Karnataka and speed bumps have love affair. 

 

lol, I have to agree on this..
Even Bangalore to Mysuru is filled with speed bumps and barricades.

 

2 hours ago, sahil said:

I think we should suggest everyone to choose Gulburga, Bijapur rout instead of Raichur rout from Hyderabad. Raichur rout we can't even touch 30/40 for some distance.

 

I have experienced Raichur road numerous times enroute to Goa.

It is a mess.

Will take a look at your suggestion.

 

[Sridhar Tandra]

7 hours ago, karthik said:

Even Bangalore to Mysuru is filled with speed bumps and barricades

we have enjoyed it in our Coorg drive 

[uday]

Love the colour of your EcoSport.

 

Short and crisp travel log.

I wonder how you guys managed to drive so much in very few days.

 

It is a good share, place is pretty much unknown for many hyderabadies.

[ujwal]

Any hiking to be done ?

 

[Anand Singh]

On 7/30/2018 at 12:44 AM, uday said:

Love the colour of your EcoSport.

 

Short and crisp travel log.

I wonder how you guys managed to drive so much in very few days.

 

It is a good share, place is pretty much unknown for many hyderabadies.

 

Thank you @uday. It was unplanned and we managed to cover some places .

[Anand Singh]

On 7/30/2018 at 12:48 PM, ujwal said:

Any hiking to be done ?

 

Yes, We need to Walk around 1/2 KM to reach the water fall and their is an entry ticket or Parking ticket, i don't remember exactly because one of my colleague Paid.

 

Their is a good Walk way to reach near Waterfalls along with some tiny bridges and forest view. 

[Pralay]

Very nice share @Anand Singh. Beautiful & crisp log. Nice pictures?

[Sridhar Tandra]

@Anand Singh Did you click that night view of temple from the camping site? 

[Anand Singh]

3 hours ago, Sridhar Tandra said:

@Anand Singh Did you click that night view of temple from the camping site? 

No.Camping site is at Gokarna Beach.This was taken from Murdeshwar beach.

[Anand Singh]

5 hours ago, Pralay said:

Very nice share @Anand Singh. Beautiful & crisp log. Nice pictures?

Thank you @Pralay  

[LoneRanger]

Awesome Pics @Anand Singh, Been planning a trip to Gokarna since long. Will take this as reference for my trip plan. 

[Anand Singh]

11 hours ago, LoneRanger said:

Awesome Pics @Anand Singh, Been planning a trip to Gokarna since long. Will take this as reference for my trip plan. 

Thank you @LoneRanger. You can cover this while going to Gokarna. Start Early around 3.00 AM and you will be their at waterfalls by 2-3 PM and From waterfalls it will take 3 Hours to go to Gokarna