Blore-Coorg Tour (13th,Dec - 14th,Dec)
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It was another nice trip initiated from Pinak. We have been going to couple of places, but this two days trip was really good; where we started on Saturday and returned back to our homes on Sunday. Let me share about our trip in brief.
As usual, Trinity house initiated two days-Coorg(Kudugu) trip, approx 250KM from Bangalore on Tuesday (9th,Dec). By the end of Friday, our plan has been finalized from all of us:
Pinak Sharma (Captain)
Hari Prasad
Pavan
Poornay (Pinak's Cousin)
Myself (RaviSankar)
Srinivas (TCS Colleague)
B.Satish and G.Satish (B.Tech classmates).
We booked a 9 seater-Toyota Qualis on Friday itself with the help of Srinivas. Vehicle started from Marathahalli @06:00 AM to Banashankari with MySelf, Srinivas and B.Satish; and on the way, G.Satish joined with us @BTM Layout. In an hour, everybody in Trinity got ready and started from Banashankari by 7:30AM towards Destination.
SAT Morning:
We took a break @ Sriranga Patna (near to Tippu Sultan Fort place) and loaded our (including vehicle) stomachs with breakfast by 09:30 AM. Then we crossed Mysore but did not stop there as we planned our next stop would be Budda's Golden Temple which is nearly 1 hour (45km) from Mysore. Golden Temple is worth watching place and by the time we spent 1 hour there, its around 1pm.
SAT Afternoon:
We started to Kushalnagar (on the way to destination), and we found a hotel "Top-in-Town" is the best one to have lunch. After that we moved to nearby Nisargadhama forest; and spent nearly an hour with elephant ride followed by Deer view park etc.., and then started to Dubare Forest, which is approx 15km from Nisargadhama where we can see elephant camps. We need to cross small River to see elephant camps, sothat we took a boat for rent and went other side.
SAT Evening:
After that(5PM), we began our journey to Coorg (Madikeri). Little after the sunset, we reached Madikeri and directly went to a place called "Raja Seat". It is on the top of the hill and nice view point where we can enjoy sunset view followed by musical water fountain effects for 30 mins. (Make sure, you should be here before 6.30pm if you wish to feel the view).
SAT Night:
Then, we took a 2BHK house for rent for 1 day and had a dinner at a nice hotel-"Athidhi" and slept for the day.
SUN Morning:
Everybody woke up and got ready by 6AM and started to Abbey Falls which is around 5KM from Madikeri. Its really really superb, and it would be more than superb if we can go there in the early morning- before 7AM. After an hour, we started to TalaKaveri- Kaveri's Birth place which is 50KM from Madikeri. In between we took a break and visited Kerala style temple @Bhagamandala Triveni Sangamam. After an hour spent @Talakaveri, we came back again to Madikeri and started moving towards Bangalore.
SUN Afternoon:
We had a lunch at the same place as yesterday - "Top In Town" hotel @ Kushal Nagar @3:30PM and started
SUN Evening:
By the time, we reached Mysore its around 6:30PM and all of us planned to watch Mysore palace lighting as it can be done only on Sundays.
SUN Night:
We had dinner @ Kamat which is 40KM from Bangalore and then started again. Finally we reached our homes @12 midnight.
All at a glance
Saturday
Started from Blore@ : 7AM
Breakfast @Srirangapatna : 9:30AM
Budda Golden Temple : 11:30AM
Lunch @Top-in-Town, Kushalnagar: 1PM
Nisargadhama Forest : 2PM
Dubare Forest : 4PM
Raja Seat, Madikeri : 6:30PM
Dinner @ Athidhi, Madikeri : 9PM
Sunday
Abby Falls : 06:30AM
Breakfast @Athidhi, Madikeri: 9AM
Bhagamandala : 10AM
TalaCauveri : 11AM
Lunch @Top-in-Town, Kushalnagar: 3:30PM
Mysore Palace: 6:30PM
Dinner @Kamat: 10PM
Reached Blore: 12 Midnight