Who: Dad, Mom, Ritika, Me
This travel, like others, was very hastily planned…planned if you can say so. My family decided to visit me in June. On 20th when they came to Bangalore, I had a couple of places in my mind where we could go over the weekend. One of these was Coorg. I had heard that Coorg was a beautiful place and like other south Indian tourist places it was green….so we booked a cab (with a word to the travel agent that the driver should know Hindi/English…and he agreed.) and started off to Coorg at around 10 in the morning after having breakfast at HAL Guesthouse (we realized soon enough that the cabbie didn’t know Hindi at all L)…it was a nice weather when we started cool….it drizzled a bit on the way…but it was pleasant…To reach Coorg, we had to go via Mysore. We reached Mysore at around 12 pm…Ritika is a die hard fan of pizza…so we went to Pizza Corner…had some nice pizza, sandwizza, coke and my favorite cheese garlic bread….After having lunch we resumed our journey to Coorg. On the way we had to bear those Kannada songs….that cabbie had only two kinds of song collection….Kannada songs and Himesh Reshamiya’s songs….i don’t understand that if you don’t understand Hindi how can you understand Hindi songs!!! And that too Himesh Reshamiya!!! Urgh!!!
It rained like mad on the way from Mysore to Coorg. But one thing worth noting was the greenery throughout the way. We reached Coorg at around 3.30 pm…we were searching the hotel when our cab’s tyre got punctured….it took around half an hour for the driver to change the tyre….it was raining quite heavily…by the time we could find the hotel it was already 5 and raining like mad…we were dead tired and feeling really cold so we decided that we will relax that day and go for some site seeing the next day. We ordered some pakoras and tea, played cards and gossiped….the view from our room was awesome….hills all around, clouds going through our room…after some time we were hardly able to see anything coz of the clouds
We watched TV played some games, had dinner and then slept…well me and Rits watched “Shootout at Lokhandwaala” and then slept….it was pouring heavily and the sound of the wind was really scary…..Ritika couldn’t sleep for quite some time and was really scared coz of the noise of the wind.
Next day morning, after having
our breakfast at around 9.30, we checked out of the room. We couldn’t go to Abey Falls as the people at the hotel suggested that there will be a lot of leech coz of the rains. Also since the roads to Taal Kaveri (River Kaveri originated from this point) were blocked due to heavy rains, we had to drop the plan to visit that place also. So we went to Omkareshwara Temple. Mom and Dad went in there as there was water around 10 inches, so me and Ritika decided to opt out…After that we went to Raja seat….it 
was just a garden…since it was raining heavily, we decided not to go in there. From there we went to a dam, Chicklihole Reservoir…it was a beautiful place. Since it was quite in the interior, there were hardly any people around. It was a deserted place, very quiet, very green….the only sound which we could listen was of the wind…that’s it. 
From here we went to Cauvery Nisargadhama which is an island in the middle of Kaveri River. The river was very wild…rain had made the river untamed. It was such a beautiful site to see… there was a park also and some tourist shops.
From here we moved on and came to the Buddhist Monastery. This place included a monastery, a residential Buddhist school and a Buddhist colony. The temple was beautiful. The three main sculptures were made out of copper and was gold plated. One could hear constant chants of mantras and at the same time children enjoying at the school. There is a small shopping complex which sells souvenirs, has restaurants. We bought something to eat and headed back to Bangalore via Mysore.
We again had lunch at Pizza Corner in Mysore (Mom and Rits seems to love these). We reached Bangalore at around 9 in the night and this was the end of the small and interesting holiday. If it wouldn’t have rained, the trip would have been more eventful…Anyways there is never an end to human expectations and in any case, after coming to Bangalore, I have realized that my holidays can never be perfect (I guess I would really not enjoy if every thing falls in place ….after all, there is no fun if there is no challenge!!!
1 comment:
Indeed Coorg is a paradise - one of the best hill stations I have visited till date. The most heavenly feel of the place lies in it being untouched - jus raw! We had visited Coorg with friends in Dec last year, reached there on a chilly early morning - rather a Beeaauuttiiffuull chilly early morning...and touched almost all these places- and if i were to put it in a few words, i would jus say that the experience was amazing!!
Apart from the fact that places are just too good to describe, the feeling too....feeling of being with oneself, feeling of being in the middle of a completely different way of life, feeling of being with people who are self-indulged, gives an ecstatic experience and satisfies the soul.
This place is like manna to peace hungry people stuck in the hustle and bustle of city life....Being in Bangalore, its not a place worth missing, Surely Arpita and her family would agree...
Wish we can preserve the beauty of this place, by keeping commercialism distant from it- Wish inhabitation at this place continue to be the way it is, Wish the beauty of this place remains un-invaded
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