A trip to Tada falls

The wettest day of life ... A trip to Tada falls ..

Trip team -> Karthik, Santha, Selva, Viswa, Karthikeyan and Dhanasekar. Trip route -> Chennai - NH5 - Gummidipoondi - Tada - Tada falls. Trip date -> 1 day -> 17th July 2010.

A one-day trip was planned to visit Tada falls on bikes. We heard that bikes are most preferred for this particular route and destination. Moreover, Dhana had visited the same place a couple of weeks back and ensuring bike rides are the best to reach this place.

We started around 05:30 AM in the morning after everyone met at Koyembedu bus stand. A straight drive towards Red hills and then taking NH-5 from there-on. The route was simply good for the roads were smooth and especially thanks to the overnight rains that made the trip a no-dust one all-through the way !

About an hour and 15 minutes, we reached Tada town on NH-5. From this place, we need to take a left turn for the Tada falls. Next comes, a small town - Varadhapalayam. We had our hunger breaked down here and proceed towards Tada falls, which is immediate left after the Varadhapalayam town. One needs to walk for a kilometre before immersing in water. We entered the falls around 8 AM and spent almost an hour in the 5-feet fresh water. Thanks to a group of monkeys engaging our group for sometime ! Then, we trekked towards the "Tada falls", which is almost a km uphill -> a really good scenic walk, where water flows all the way from the falls. At couple of places, we were tempted to take bath, but, we preferred to walk to the top before the crowd pouches in. We reached the awesome place and only we 6 of us were there to enjoy the nature. We were there for almost more than 2 hours enjoying the waters ! The trek towards the falls was fully over the of rocks - one does not need skill for it but just go and climb ! On the way back, "Hydrophilic" Viswa took couple of baths as he felt he was "hot" ;-). We trekked down and again reached back Varadhapalayam. We were deperately hungry and ate almost all possible hot idlis upto neck and started the drive back home.

"The wettest day" started after starting from Tada town. Rain poured like water from bucket once we started from Tada. We took shelter in a bus stop and waited for the rain to stop. After almost an hour long wait, we decided that it may not stop and started the ride hoping the rain may not be there after some kms, which was wrong, as we were drenched and left swimming until we reached Ashok Pillar !!!

Surely, Tada falls is a good one-day spot for relaxing !