Kolkata to Jagdalpur‬, Tirathgarh, ‪Chitrakoot & back in 3 days in July 2015 (Day-2, Day-3)

Day-2‪‎:
Indian Roadie‬, Soumitra Bhattacharjee from Kolkata checked into Atithi Inn Hotel, Jagdalpur (CG) with wife and daughter on Day 1 (2015-07-16) of his own version of solo rain drive at 6.30pm logging 1120 kms in 18 hrs.
On Day 2 (2015-07-17) at 9am he checked out of hotel at Jagdalpur and drove to ‪Tirathgarh Waterall‬, the famous eco-tourism site of ‪‎Kanger Valley National Park‬. The gushing water of ‪Mugabahar River‬ drops from a height of 300 ft. Tirathgarh Waterfall is located about 35 kms south of Jagdalpur.
At around 1pm, Soumitra checked into the luxury tents of ‪Dandami Luxury Resort‬ of ‪Chhattisgarh Tourism Board‬ at Chitrakoot besides the ‪‎Chitrakoot Waterfalls‬ located 35 kms from Jagdalpur.
The perennial ‪Indravati River‬ is known to be the origin of Chitrakoot Waterfalls. The streams of water in Chitrakoot takes a horse shoe type dimension while falling down. Having a height of around of 100 feet, Chitrakoot Waterfall is no less enticing than the world-famous Niagara falls.





















































Day-3:
On 2015-07-18 (Day 3), this roadie started his return drive back to Kolkata at around 10 am.



The return drive to Kolkata was through the same route as in Day 1, i.e. via Jagdalpur, Jeypore, Koraput, Chilakapalem, Srikakulam, Ichapuram (Andhra Pradesh), Brahmapur (Orissa), Rambha, Khurda, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Balasore, Kharagpur.
Dinner on Day 3 (2015-07-18) was at Rambha.
Soumitra drove throughout the night while it poured outside.
At 6.30am on 2015-07-19, Soumitra and his family reached their home in north Kolkata.
Barring a tyre puncture at Rambha, there were no untoward incidents during the entire drive of approximately 2400 kms in a little over 3 days.

(Photo & content credit: Soumitra Bhattacharjee. Additional inputs by: Deep Banerjee)