Trip to Bhedaghat...

With Narmada cutting through the marble rocks, Bhedaghat is a very good picnic spot. It just takes about 7 hours to finish the entire sight seeing. The major attractions being the Duandhar Falls, Marble Rocks, and the Chausath Yogini temple.



The Duandhar falls, even though isn't that high, but the force of water is tremendous. You can feel the intense force of water even as you stand there watching at the water fall form approximately 10m (my approximation after looking at the falls). Just before Narmada takes a leap, its flow is quiet moderate and thus is suitable for taking a bath. We (Kotecha, Huggies,Randy, Balu and me. The losers, ie Popat and Potnis backed out from bathing in that cold) took a bath in the early morning hours when the air was so cold that our asses were frozen. We decided to do so as the locals advised that the water would be comparatively hotter in the mornings and would start to get colder by the day, I don't know how that works. But it was really worth it. The water wasn't as cold as we thought it would be. The moment we came out of the water, the cold air literally froze our asses this time. But soon, after we dressed up, none of us were feeling cold anymore. And to my surprise, none of us caught cold or fever of anything.



Next the marble rocks. Quiet a bit of marble is visible while standing near the falls. But for a better look, rather a much better look, a boat ride in the Narmada. All kinds of marbles namely white, grey, pink, black are clearly distinguishable. Some are shaped like the head of an elephant, the toes of a horse, the body of Nandi (Shiva's bull) and many more. Its amazing to look at.



The Chausath Yogini temple is an ancient temple and is declared a hertiage site by the Archeological Survey of India. It has carvings of 64 yogigi, the female yoga mystics and Lord Shiva and Lordess Parvathi inside the main temple. It was apparently built in the 10th century AD by some king's mom. The Yogini carvings are worth looking at even though most of then have been destroyed due to some unknown reason.