How to go to rat tail falls or thalaiyar waterfalls?
The beautiful thing is the path having rocks and running stream from the rat tail falls and not just the rat tail falls.
Go to devadanapatti which is in between batlagundu and periyakulam. From there go to manjalar dam. Go in between March and upto the middle of June. if you are a male you can go alone too. I went alone and reached its foot on 2024 March. I saw some youtube videos regarding rat tail falls trekking. I noted the path of treking in those videos and I reached rat tail falls.
But if you can get one more person to trek along with you get one more person with you. You might get into an accident. Your bones or some of your leg fingers might get broken due to some accident while trekking in the slippery rocks. At the time some one will help. Get one bottle of வாழை மட்டை சாறு. If indian cobra bites you drink it fully. Your life will be saved. Even if any other snake bites you drink this.
But you need to stich a special bag to carry this bottle on your back. Go to bag shop. Ask him to stitch a bag for water bottle to wear on the back side. The bag should have ropes to tie around your stomach from the backside. While you trek on stream you need to jump from one rock to another. If you have big bag you will not jump safely. Don't have any big bag. Just have one small bag for this bottle.
Snakes usually lie under rocks. So when you trek aware of the place under rocks. At early morning or after 6 o clock in the evening snakes will come outside. Don't walk in those time. Walk when there is sunlight and sunheat. At that time snakes will hide within holes. The chance of you being bitten by a snake will be reduced.
From manjalar dam a moutain forest dam starts at an entrance having a small gate. If you go on full moon day you will not be stopped by forest police. On full moon day many people come to worship 3 temples within the forest. They are karuppu temple at first, Vinayagar temple at second and bamboo kamatchi temple as the third one.
No one will be stopped on full moon by forest police. You can mingle with people.
If anyone asks you where you are going tell them that you are going to bamboo kamatchi temple(மூங்கில் காமாட்சி கோயில்)... Dont tell that you are going to rat tail falls.
After entering the entrance if you walk for 15minutes you will reach karuppu temple. Then turn left. You can see a stream. A heavy iron chain is tied from one tree on one side of the stream to a tree on the other side of the stream. If you go in between March and upto the middle of June you can cross this stream. If you go in August heavy flow of water will be there. You need to grasp the chain to cross the stream. If you miss your grip you will be in danger.
Cross it. Then you will see Vinayagar temple just above few meters bamboo kamatchi temple is present. Don't go to bamboo kamatchi temple. Go just to Vinayagar temple. Near it a stream runs. Just get into the stream. Trek upwards. Jump from rocks to rocks. Walk into the stream. Climb very big rocks. This path is beautiful.
If you want to reach rat tail falls go from March upto the end of April. At that time only water flows in a small amount. You can trek and reach rat tail falls foot. Even in June you can go. But water flow will increase after June. If you go in August, September, October, November or December heavy water will flow down the rat tail falls. You cannnot trek up above the stream. Also after karuppu temple(1st temple) you need to cross a big stream from one side to another.a heavy iron chain is tied from one tree to another. You cannot cross this stream easily if you go in August, September, October, November or December. Don't take risk. If you take risk you can cross by gripping the iron chain. If you miss it you will be in danger.
Then reach Vinayagar temple. Get into the stream near to it. Trek up the stream. Reach rat tail falls.
The beautiful thing is the path having rocks and running stream from the rat tail falls and not just the rat tail falls. The rat tail falls is not beautiful when you reach its foot in March or April as there is very low water flow. Rat tail falls is beautiful to see in August, September, October, November or December as there is much amount of water flow. If you enter a stream when it's overflowing, you'll be swept away. In the video below you can see some boys have reached rat tail falls when it is overflowing.
Some boys had reached rat tail falls in heavy water flow season with high risk and it was shown on a tamil news channel
https://youtu.be/3jhwDvGNs28?si=ZpyAdqSHi5rO1NSu
Below video is showing a man at the foot of rat tail falls flowing down with much amount of water. the month he went must be August or September, October or November or December..he must have taken high risk to reach its foot..he must have went with friends..they must have formed human hand chain links at many part of the stream to cross them...
https://youtu.be/bdeSA1DvK6o?si=uVRwwP3hjMmhDm4c
I saw a youtube video in a channel. The owner is a complete fraud. He had reached rat tail falls in summer and put a video of his rat tail falls trekking in his channel. In that video after reaching the base of Rat Tail Falls, the owner of the channel says 'Don't come here. It is dangerous. We have come after getting permission.' That is a lie. No permission is needed. He wants to see it alone and doesn't want anyone else to come and see it. Furthermore, in the description of his video, he is asking us to pay for his trip. A good person, if he visits Rat Tail Falls, would want everyone else to at least see that place once. Do we have to pay for this thief to travel?"