Chhatwada Waterfall
Broad, low, and at its best in monsoon spate by Chhatwada village. Quiet company for Kesharva falls in the belt west of Rajpipla.
- Best months
- Jul, Aug, Sep
- Time needed
- ~1.5 hr
- Entry
- Free
- Hours
- Open area
- Effort
- Easy
Mapped locally as 'Handi waterfall', a broad low cascade where the village river drops over a rock step and turns brown-white with every wet spell. Chhatwada is the second falls of the Kesharva belt. It is a spate waterfall in the most literal sense: the show is the volume, not the height, and in August the whole step disappears under churning floodwater.
The falls sit about a kilometre and a half from Chhatwada village, some twenty kilometres west of Rajpipla on the same country roads that serve Kesharva, the two pair naturally, nine kilometres apart, for a half-day of the belt's monsoon water. Facilities are none; viewing is from the rocks above the step, and the usual spate rules apply doubly here because the flow rises with almost no warning.
Like Kesharva, this is village land that stays clean because visitors have so far kept it that way.
Highlights
- ◆Broad rock-step cascade that runs huge in spate
- ◆Pairs with Kesharva falls 9 km away
- ◆Village setting, no gates, no crowds, no stalls
Traveller tips
- →Do it with Kesharva falls, nine kilometres apart, one monsoon half-day
- →Go a day or two after heavy rain for the full spate without the peak danger
- →Carry out what you carry in: the belt's falls are clean because visitors keep them so
Safety
- ⚠Spate flow rises with little warning: stay off the step and the mid-river rocks in the rains
- ⚠No barriers, no lifeguards; watch children on the wet rock above the drop
Where it is
Approximate pin. The circle is the margin · 21.7677, 73.4279
Directions to Chhatwada ↗Getting there
Road · Country roads west from Rajpipla to Chhatwada village (pin 393145); the falls are just south-east of the village
Rail · Ankleshwar/Bharuch railheads (~55 km)
Air · Vadodara (~88 km)
Last stretch · Short walk from the village side to the rocks above the step
Practical detail
- The road
- Rural tar; field tracks sticky right after rain
- Parking
- Informal, at the village
- Season
- Runs with each wet spell and thins fast between them; little to see outside the rains.
- Visiting
- A spate waterfall. It is at its best, and most dangerous, in the days right after heavy rain.
- Photography
- Shoot from the high rocks above the step, the brown-white churn reads best with something green in frame for scale.
- Food
- None. Carry everything from Rajpipla
- Toilets
- none
- Guides
- Not needed; villagers point the way
Where to sleep
Vishal Khadi Eco Campsite
A five-room forest camp on the Rajpipla–Netrang road, roughly 20 km south of Rajpipla, hemmed in by the Karjan and Dediapada forests. The practical bed for the Rajpipla-side waterfalls if the palace hotel is beyond budget.
Forest Department portal lists 3 rooms from ₹1000 and 2 tents from ₹500 a night. Small site, the whole place books out on long weekends.
Rajvant Palace Resort, Rajpipla
Sleeping in the 1910 palace is the quiet way to do the SoU circuit, 25 min from the campus without its hotel crush.
Direct booking with the resort; ~14 rooms, so weekends and film-shoot periods block out fast
Data confidence: Researched · facts last verified 2026-08-10 · 5 field(s) awaiting verification
- Google Maps, place 'Handi waterfall' (21.7677, 73.4279) by Chhatwada village 393145; visited and photographed by the maintainer, Google Maps (maintainer's contribution link)