Jog Falls

The Sharavathi arrives at the edge of a plateau and falls about two hundred and fifty metres in four separate streams. This is the highest single drop in India. Whether that reads as a wall of water or four thin ribbons depends on releases from the Linganamakki dam upstream, so July to October, during and just after the monsoon, is when it runs at full strength. The site reopened in May 2025 with a new viewing tower, gate and parking; entry is twenty rupees for Indian visitors and a hundred for foreign ones, plus a hundred for a camera and five hundred for a drone; bring cash, and ask at the gate whether the evening laser show is running. Ninety kilometres inland and two to two and a half hours each way, so give it the whole day.

India's tallest single drop, and how much of it falls depends on a dam upstream