Jonha Falls

Jonha Falls, named after the local village, drops about 43 metres (141 ft) at an edge of the Ranchi plateau, where the Gunga stream spills into the valley of the Raru. It is also called Gautamdhara, after the temple of the Buddha nearby. A long stairway leads down through tall trees to the pool at its foot.

Jonha is a hanging-valley fall: the Gunga, a side stream, hangs above its master stream, the Raru (Radu), and leaps down into its deeper valley. Tall trees close in around it, and the Ranchi district site describes the fall as quieter and more sombre than its neighbours. It lies about 40 km from Ranchi, a few kilometres off the Ranchi-Purulia road, and Jonha railway station is about 1.5 km away.

Most visitors walk down a stairway of around 700 steps (722 by Wikipedia's count) to see the falls properly, which makes for a tiring climb back. A road via the Jonha Fall Resort gives a view of the falls without the full descent. A 2017 report by the state tourism corporation described a newer marble stairway, rest sheds and five or six food kiosks run by local people, who also sell wooden handicrafts.

Unlike Dassam, Jonha has no deep plunge pool. The same report noted a bed of sand and shingle beneath the falls, where people bathe in the falling water, and called it one of the safer falls around Ranchi.