[1] From this point, about 3.5 kilometers downstream, the river Kaveri flows through a deep and narrow gorge.

It is said that a goat being chased by a tiger made a desperate attempt to save its life by leaping from one side of the gorge and managed to cross over the raging river below, whereas the tiger did not attempt to replicate this feat, and abandoned the chase.

On both rocky precipices of the gorge, one can find strange holes, whose shapes resemble goats' hooves, though several times larger.

At Mekedaatu, the Kaveri runs through a deep, narrow ravine of hard granite rock.

The river, which is more than 150 meters wide at the confluence (at Sangama) flows through the hardly 10-meter-wide gorge at Mekedatu.

In case people go on foot from Sangama, this place wouldn't be that hard to spot.