The Journey Begins......!!!
My friends Heymu, Anu and I had an awesome trekking experience during our one-day trip to ‘Daria Hill Waterfall’ on Tuesday (29th July 2015). This incredible and amazingly beautiful Waterfall is located on the outskirts of the Itanagar city.Cascading down from the top of the gorge to the mystic deep green pool below, this natural waterfall is about 15-20 feet high and 6-7 feet wide; surrounded by dense forests and rocks. Though unknown to many, gradually this waterfall is gaining popularity among the youths.
[View of Daria Hill Waterfall]
We had planned this
trekking expedition long back but due to one or other reason we could not make
it until 29th July 2015. As decided day before, we packed up our stuffs and
gears and embarked early morning in my car and reached to the spot from where we
had to trek.
[Friends forever]
Missing route.....
It was a bright sunny morning and the view along the trek was really captivating and all of us were so excited. However, our excitement was short lived because after reaching to a particular place our guide-cum-companion, Heymu, got confused about the route. He told us that we took a wrong route. For a moment I was so pissed that I wanted to punch him as we already walked so long and we were hell tired!!!
Since he was the only one who knew the route by virtue of being visited there already, we couldn't do anything but to follow his instructions.
The waterfall is about forty to sixty minutes trek from Itanagar city but it was taking more than two hours and still we were following a trail along a small rivulet. The rivulet was full of huge boulders and logs probably due to recent floods.
Finding our way back...
Though we were not sure about the route, we thought of finding the way out because we could not give up so easily!!
We constantly followed the rivulet hoping to find the waterfall. But instead we eventually reached to a dead end only to realized that we cannot trek further. By then we were sure that we made a terrible mistake and there is no point going beyond that spot.
In order to find the route, Heymu scaled some of the small mountains alone and even got his shorts damaged on the way. Infact, we almost covered half of the mighty Daria mountain.
Leaving with no options, we decided to turn back and started descending from the same rivulet. As we were so exhausted that we thought of giving up and going back to home, but that didn't happen. Luckily, we encountered three young ladies who were going to the field. They were kind enough and agreed to lead us to the way.
They informed us that we took the wrong route from the beginning itself as there are two routes one leading to waterfall and other to the fields.
The sigh of relief..
As suggested by those ladies we again followed the same rivulet, but this time downstream. Can we really not make the same mistake twice? NO!! We did make the mistake again..this time it was me who was leading. As we proceeded, we saw a trek route leading to the mountain side.
[Rivulet]
Without giving a second thought we took that route immediately and started ascending again. While going up we noticed some strange things. We noticed many pairs of slippers were scattered along the route. We thought some trekkers might have already went to the waterfall.As we were moving step by step towards our destination, we heard some noise coming from our back. A little boy and a middle aged woman were coming from behind.
[Rare and exotic butterfly]
Before we could say anything, the woman asked where were we heading to...three of us said, 'Waterfall' in chorus. To our utter dismay ,she told us that we took the wrong route again. It was so disheartening...But then she said we are now close to the waterfall. She suggested us to keep going down till we see a pipeline and follow the same to reach there!
This time it did not take us much to reach that pipeline....And the funniest part is as we got close to the pipeline, Heymu screamed, ..!!yes this is the right way!!...I didn't say a word...:p From there it was just a few minutes walk and we finally made it to the waterfall! Our tiredness melt away on seeing the stunning beauty of nature's wonder.
[Pool of green water below the waterfall]
It is worth mentioning here that though Anu had some difficulty during the long trekking to to the mountain through that rivulet, yet she didn't give up and made it to the waterfall with us. The trek was supposed to be the simplest one but...Literally,we started at 5 am in the morning for a 60 minutes trek but it took us almost 3 and half hours to reach at ‘Daria Hill Waterfall’ :):D
