Rejoicing the cascading waters of ATHIRPALLY WATERFALLS.

Athirpally waterfalls, is situated in the Athirpally  panchayat  in Chalukudy  taluk of Thrissur district  in Kerala(India) .This falls is on the chalukudy river,which originates from upper reaches of Western ghats ,at the entrance of the Sholayar  ranges.
   It is the highest waterfalls  in kerala, which stands tall at 80ft. Its marvelous cascade of frothy waters  makes a width of 330 ft and often referred  as the " NIAGARA  FALLS OF INDIA"...From here, The Athirpally  falls flows thru' the verdant  greenery of Vazhachal Forest towards the Arabian Sea, creating a spectacular  vista of scintillating  waters, emerald jungles and azure sky.
   SEPT - JAN is the best time to enjoy a stay here...lots of home stays, resorts are spread across for tourists to visit the place.

The scenic beauty of Athirpally, has always been attractive location for Film makers. Famous song " Jiya Jale" from Dil Se movie, " Barso re megha" from Guru , song sequence from Bahubali,  " Sunta hai tera khuda" from puskar,  " chalk chalay mitwa" in Nayak  have been picturised  here.

  My experience: Since ,I have almost visited kerala fully from North to south ,I just didnt wish to miss out Athirpally waterfalls...so when opportunity came my way last January to visit Kozikode,  I just had to plan a drive out to Athirpally waterfalls....since I was alone ,I thought to ask my youngest sister ,who was then working at Kozikode, to join me.....We , planned out a stay at Munnar via Athirpally waterfalls,  as we were not sure of the places to stay around Athirpally......After almost 4+ hours drive we reached Athirpally waterfalls site around mid day ....since the roads across Chalukudy is a single lane road that heads to Athirpally,  it took us quite a time to reach as non of us was sure of the location ....many of our friends did say that one has to trek almost 2kms or so to reach the waterfall site but we found ,all such information wrong .....After we parked our vehicle in parking bay at Athirpally waterfalls site , we had to walk some half a kms to the rock bed from where the waters suddenly  cascading down some 80fts ,making a beautiful  scenic beauty amidst dense jungle .....the wind here is quite strong and one cannot stand too long here as the rock beds  get too heated up ...govt of kerala  has made very good arrangement to walk around ,provided with washrooms and places to sit at some locations ....some adventure seekers can also walk down 80 ft up to the place where the water is falling but thinking about the steep climb up back ,we just dropped the idea to go down instead.....but surely ,its a wonderful experience  . Later ,on our way back we took our drive thru' rubber plantation  dense jungle across to munnar ,which too ,was another experience  altogether  for 2 ladies taking on such journey  in an unknown region .....