Kiliyur Falls

I have read the reviews in Google already and very much aware that it requires a hard trekking to climb up the falls during return. I was hesitant due to this but decided to go to this place with an idea that it is off season and the crowd will be minimum so it is the right time to visit. Given below my experience after visiting the falls: The road to reach Kiliyur falls starts from a small cut opposite to the Yercaud lake and it is a stretch of nearly 4 Kms. The road is narrow and absolutely worst with no thar surface, only gravel stones are filled throughout. I went in a two wheeler and it is very skidding, uncomfortable, jerking and irritating. There is no much of Traffic but on crowded times it will test your patience since the road is very narrow, two cars cant cross opposite at ease. From the parking area you have to climb down roughly 300 steep steps (may be 1 Km) which takes you to the falls. When I'm going down saw people on their way returning finding it very difficult to climb the steps and exhausted. Middle aged men, Family with Kids, Elderly people are absolutely struggling and some one fighting with in themselves for bringing to this place with kids. Till you reach the last 25 steps you can't see the falls, only when you reach the bottom most you can see it. Actually the stream of water is flowing through a considerable height but even then the water flow is weak and as always group of people occupying all the possible places where you can take bath. The falls is either not photogenic, the surrounding places are not clean, there is no area to sit and watch peacefully at least. stayed there for 1 hour of time (can't bath since no one who already occupied the falls is moving) and started to climb back again. I went in a off season, even then there is remarkable crowd which made congestive in the falls area. I swear that in season timing there will no place to stand at all. The return experience is so hard as I expected, felt like climbing a never ending steps which made us so exhaustive and dehydrated. The water falls no way justify all those breath taking efforts done in climbing up and down. I ended up in a cramp at my calf muscle and eventually went back to the hotel and took rest instead of continuing the sight seeing in other places. If you are family with kids, middle aged men who don't have that much of trekking experience or having elders in your gang straight away skip this place. Instead of putting an exhaustive effort for visiting the falls and coming back, you can see much more and better places in that time.