Hogenakkal Facts - A

Safety

TTDC maintains the Hogenakkal tourist spot and are responsible for the safety of the visitors yet, TTDC have not appointed anyone to provide the safety needed for the tourists. Instead they have appointed not one but many to collect money from each and everyone of the visitors for walking on the hanging bridge. Drowning incidents happen very often but, if they charge for everything why can’t they hire some life gaurds? It is a tourist place where people bathe in the sacred and healing waters, as TTDC claim. At least they could have made available inflatable rubber tubes, which could prevent someone’s death. No barricades are there for the visitors at the place you walk through the flowing water to the falls area to take the sacred herbal bath.

Unclean environment


"Of coracles, masseurs and roaring waters. The sound of the Cauvery river, roaring between rocky banks, is a constant presence in most places in Hogenakkal. So too, is slap-slap thump! Though the roar of the river drowns it is you are not too close to the source of the strange sound. Hogenakkal is a revering spa where, according to its devotees, good health can be had for the asking… and a small fee!"

Medical facilities, Public telephone and transportation

Hogenakkal does not have a hospital or a clinic. Even for minor injuries the nearest place is 20 kilometres away. When such a large crowd of tourists visit a place like this how can a responsible corporation like TTDCnot even have a first aid center? There is no public telephone for the visitors. Tourists cannot contact anyone for assistance when they are in distress - such as ambulances. People with private phones allow you to use their phone at double the usual charges. Transportation is very important for the visitors. Some of the visitors come there in their own vehicle or hired vehicle. Most of them come by bus or by open vans so for them to reach a doctor in an emergency will be a nightmare. It will be very hard to get an ambulance or a car to the nearest doctor.


These advertisements are not at all true, taking a bath in that river will not be healthy because the tourists do not have proper public toilet. They litter everywhere, pass urine, and defecate shamelessly, making the roaring rocks dirty to step on. They change the nice God-given free clean air into pungent and dirty air. Some people go there only for enjoyment and to get drunk and thus vomit is found all over the place. These dirty and filthy smells do not allow any one to enjoy nature or allow you to sit on the rocks! And the falls are described as sacred and healing water by TTDC! Please note other things get mixed in with that water such as oil from the massages given near the waters. These massagers sit around the place with their bottles of oil (God only knows what oil that is) and make all the rocks oily and slippery, specially near the water banks, so one has to be very careful when setting foot on the rocks