Deepak Kulkarni Videos - saleshwaram visit by trimurty colony members saroornagar hyderabad

Reach: Regular bus service is available to the base. Take any bus towards Srisailam via Munnanur and ask the driver to drop you at Saleshwaram - comes to the right at about 30 km after Munnanur check-post. A jeep/bus route is available to the place from the main road - 22 km. You can even go by bikes. Permissions must be obtained from forest range office at Munnanur or Hyderabad. From the start of walk, it is a 2 hr trek in the forest to reach Saleshwaram.
Religious Importance: A cave temple for Lord Siva as Saleswara Swamy is present here close to two gorgeous waterfalls.
Grade: Easy-Jolly. If you are not planning to hike the 22km of the dirt road on foot (no water available en-route here).
Season: Saleshwaram is closed most of the year. It is open to tourists on the first full moon day after Ugadi (Telugu New Year) and usually falls in the month of April. There will be thousands of people, litter and noise all the way at that time. At other times, procure permission from forest officer to visit this beautiful place any time. There are plenty of buses and other vehicles through out the day and night.
What to do:
Hmm.. You can climb up the waterfall, easily at least to 60% of the total height of about 120ft. The main waterfall falls through a narrow circular depression which is beautiful. Rappelling down both the waterfalls would be fun but I don't think you'll get a permission for that from forest authorities - find your own way ;-) When I visited there, which was with 1000s of devotees, I had to literally climb holding wet rocks with my finger-tips and a rock came off my hand en-route - I believe I'd have been fatally injured, as I took a deviated over-hang route to avoid the crowd, if I slipped. I just managed to walk across the over-hang right on to the waterfall and climbed up from there on but couldn't get to the top due to the extremely slippy moss and the danger of bringing down hundreds of people with me, including many women and small children, if I fall. After a few moments of my descent, I heard from the devotees pool below reeked blood from a fall and that it is common. The fanaticism went on - no one died, luckily.
The valleys of the Nallamala range are connecting and go down criss-cross but you can follow the streams south towards the Krishna river which would be a brilliant trek. There is also a forest path the devotees used long ago to reach Srisailam. The forest is home to a scanty Tiger population, lots of Sloth bears, Leopards, Russell's Vipers, and Spectacled Cobras which shouldn't pose a problem to a decent group. The Nallamalas here are not as sensitive and dense as the Western Ghats or the Eastern Ghats for that matter. The rocks are esentially quartzite compositions that can peel off in large chunks. These are It is better to avoid going solo. The biggest problem though would be getting permission or the eventualities if you go off without one. You'll usually want to take off from such a beautiful start point. The trek ends almost as soon as it starts.