Coorg
Years of travelling by the dakshin express from sec'bad had made me believe that any train can make up at least 5 hours of delay ,anywhere in India.
Not anymore.
The rajdhani i boarded at Nagpur was 1.5 hrs late and did not recover even a minute(Of course i am exaggerating, it did recover 20 mins).I reached banglore at about 7:45 AM,and when i called up my bro to find out where he was, he coolly replied at his home, my call having just woke him up.
Deja Vu.
The weekend trip to Coorg was exalting.We stayed at the cottage of one Mr Kabir, whose primary vocation remains farming at a place called Manchali near Kutta.
For the first time in my life i saw coffee, Supari(donno the english translation),pineapple etc' tress.Mr Kabir was kind enough to light up a bon fire too.
The next day we started by visiting Irpu falls, where we discovered the meaning of the phrase bone chilling cold water. The night stay was at the nisargdham cottage. It is an Island artificially created by diverting Cavery with bamboo shoots all over the place. I understand it also has a deer sanctuary ,elephant ride and boating. We skipped all that to run to the Dubare elephant camp in the morning. I touched an elephant there and had an elephant ride. We bathed in the cavery whose temperature had fortunately risen up considerably since yesterday.
Yes we did go to Nagarhole tiger sanctuary as well, but the tigers and elephants chose not to bless us with their citing.
I bought some coffee as well at Rs 150/ KG. After coming to Banglore i realized the dudes at Nestle sell the same at Rs 1200 /KG. The shopkeeper also crushed the beans in our presence.
We had our lunch at Kushaalnagar and breakkfast at kamats, about 50 kms from Banglore.
A lot has been said, written and told about the banglore traffic.
Banglore -The city of pubs, where i have always been sober.
Years of travelling by the dakshin express from sec'bad had made me believe that any train can make up at least 5 hours of delay ,anywhere in India.
Not anymore.
The rajdhani i boarded at Nagpur was 1.5 hrs late and did not recover even a minute(Of course i am exaggerating, it did recover 20 mins).I reached banglore at about 7:45 AM,and when i called up my bro to find out where he was, he coolly replied at his home, my call having just woke him up.
Deja Vu.
The weekend trip to Coorg was exalting.We stayed at the cottage of one Mr Kabir, whose primary vocation remains farming at a place called Manchali near Kutta.
For the first time in my life i saw coffee, Supari(donno the english translation),pineapple etc' tress.Mr Kabir was kind enough to light up a bon fire too.
The next day we started by visiting Irpu falls, where we discovered the meaning of the phrase bone chilling cold water. The night stay was at the nisargdham cottage. It is an Island artificially created by diverting Cavery with bamboo shoots all over the place. I understand it also has a deer sanctuary ,elephant ride and boating. We skipped all that to run to the Dubare elephant camp in the morning. I touched an elephant there and had an elephant ride. We bathed in the cavery whose temperature had fortunately risen up considerably since yesterday.
Yes we did go to Nagarhole tiger sanctuary as well, but the tigers and elephants chose not to bless us with their citing.
I bought some coffee as well at Rs 150/ KG. After coming to Banglore i realized the dudes at Nestle sell the same at Rs 1200 /KG. The shopkeeper also crushed the beans in our presence.
We had our lunch at Kushaalnagar and breakkfast at kamats, about 50 kms from Banglore.
A lot has been said, written and told about the banglore traffic.
Banglore -The city of pubs, where i have always been sober.
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