Nagalapuram 8-9th July 2017

First, understand that ‘Nagalapuram’ is a name of a town in the Andhra Pradesh. And ‘Nagalapuram waterfalls trek’ is different than just reaching the ‘Nagalapuram town’. ‘Nagalapuram waterfalls trek’ is around 18 Kms from the ‘Nagalapuram town’. 
To reach Nagalapuram waterfalls, search “Arai Village, Arai, Andhra Pradesh 517581” on Google maps. There is a motorable road until this village. The road from Nagalapuram to Arai village passes through the Pichatur town. This village is also the base village of the Nagalapuram trek.
From Pichatur, Arai village is around 11 Km. Once you reach Pichatur, you can also ask locals for the Arai village and they will guide you towards you the village.
We started from Bangalore on 7th night.There were 8 of us in the TT altogether. We reached Arai village at 4.30 AM.Rooms were booked earlier in the nearby hotel on the roadside.After resting till 6.30 AM, we got refreshed and had dosas in the same hotel.Later a family of 4 accompanied with us with 2 cute 8 yr old twins Samaira and Sarayu.Our TT took us about 2 km to Nagalapuram trekking car parking. There were already a lot of cars and bikes there when we reached. So lot of people must have come for trekking. We had to go over the higher ground to get down on the other side.Then we went into the forest by taking the path on side of the lake. It was about 2 km from there till we reached the stream.
Lake 
Then there was a place looked like a camping place, but really dirty. There was a sign board warning not to swim as the pond is too deep. After a while we saw the stream.Most of the trail goes under the jungle canopy which makes us easy to hike up without having to face the afternoon sun.After trekking for about 3 hrs, we found a small pond where we took a small dip.Heading further, there was another pond but was too crowded.
On the way

Trek path

Trek path

So, we decided to reach the final pond where we could take a slide or jump from 20 feet.By 1 PM, we made it to that place.Few took a deep jump while few enjoyed swimming along with other co trekkers.It was fun.We had our lunch and  headed further top for about one more hr to to explore another water fall falling from 30 ft height.
The highlight, 20 ft jumping place

That's the sliding place

Poses
After resting a bit, it was time to say bye to the trek and we reached the base where there was a lake to pitch our tents.On the way , we also collected dry barks , leaves etc for camp fire but unfortunately, it started to drizzle.With great difficulty we pitched 4 tents on the bank of the lake  by 6 PM.Canp fire plan was shut down.

The last resting place
Our tents near the lake

Later by 8 PM , we somehow managed to set a small camp fire which helped us to have our dinner(rotis,rice, dal etc) which we parceled from the hotel . Samaira and Sarayu stared to talk to me about their farm house , domestic animals with whom they spend their time with,rooster,ducks,goats etc.They were fond of reading books and took English classes.Their mother runs a school.Their lifestyle was a little different from the other kids that i  have seen these days.It was good to listen to their stories.They also visited Goa many times since their mother was from the same place.It was their birthday trek.Their never ending stories took away my tiredness.
Good night time !
Next day morning we woke up at 6 AM , packed our tents and had break fast in the same hotel where we had the other day.From there we started to Bangalore and reached Bangalore by 6 PM while we had our lunch on the way in a hotel.



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