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Long Weekend Getaway: Part 7: Jog Falls Under Heavy Rainfall

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Continuing on from the 6th part:  http://kshanaprabhaa.blogspot.in/2013/09/long-weekend-getaway-part-6-sringeri.html The main destination of the four day trip was the Jog Falls, which got us thinking about this long weekend getaway in the first place, and with a genius of a plan, we had delayed our Jog trip by a day to avoid the long weekend crowd. Leaving Sringeri after breakfast, we came back to Shivamogga and from there took a bus to Sagara, closest city to Jog Falls. We got a bus right away at Sagara too, to go to Jog Falls, and after a journey of about six and a half hours in broad daylight through roads piercing dense forests and fresh rains, we reached Jog by around 4:30 in the evening. The journey through Koppa, Narasimharajapura, Sagara and Talaguppa was extremely picturesque, green, and filled with fresh pollution free air. But from the moment we stepped down from the bus at Jog, and till we came back to Sagara for the night stay, it was raining cats and dogs, b...