HYDERABAD: Waterfalls in the forest areas of north Telangana have regained their glory after heavy rains. But trekkers are unable to explore the serene beauty of cascading falls and the green glory of forests as most of the waterfalls are inaccessible.
Though Telangana State Tourism Development Corporation (TSTDC) had plans to promote monsoon tourism, offering tour packages to waterfalls in Adilabad and Nizamabad districts, the plans fell flat as there were no proper roads to the destinations.
For example, Kuntala waterfalls near Nirmal in Adilabad district is the only waterfall in the list that TSTDC provides in its tour package to northern Telangana.
A senior official in the TSTDC told Express that despite ambitious plans to promote monsoon tourism by including unexplored waterfalls in northern Telangana such as Kanakai and Gayatri near Nirmal in tour packages, they were unable to launch the tour packages. “Trekkers can go there but we cannot put the lives of tourists to risk and make them walk through dense forests to visit the waterfalls in northern Telangana,” the official said.
As the waterfalls are yet to be developed as tourist hotspots, only a few enthusiasts visit them during weekends.
“We went to Gayatri waterfall last week. Vehicles could go only upto Mokhram from where we had to walk for three hours to explore the beauty of the waterfall and its vicinity,” said N Sairam, an MNC employee in Gachibowli. “My family thought we could spend a night at Sirnapally, only to find that it was a small village without much facility to stay there. We were dismayed and after making way through the waterfall, we came back to Hyderabad. Staying in that beautiful village would have been exciting,”said T Mohan, a private sector employee from Miyapur.
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