We booked this homestay as part of our coorg trip. We started our journey from Bangalore only to reach the Raja Seat at Coorg in the evening. Being a long weekend, the roads were completely doing their work of welcoming tyres every minute. The place was so crowded having no place to park, we bid it goodbye and continued our journey towards the homestay, which is around 10 kms away from this place. We had to get down the hill to reach the homestay and one needs to definitely rely on google maps for the final destination or drive slowly looking out for proper sign and landmark indicated by the owner, as there are high chances of missing the entrance leading to it. As the place has many homestays around, the local people (few found on the roads) would seldom know them by its name.
The homestay is on the first floor and the ground floor houses the owner. The setup is ideal for a group of friends (6-10) or a family of 3 couples. There are two bedrooms and one of them having an attached bathroom. The rooms were neat and tidy and the atmosphere of red oxide floors, roofs with concrete clay tiles, brick walls painted keeps the surrounding cool and it would remind most of them their great grandmothers homes back in native. We closed the day after a delicious meal and bidding good night to the full moon that night.
The entrance of the homestay includes a decent sit out area which overseas a green plantation, where one could sit back relaxed and converse with the nature, sipping the malnad coffee. The homestay attracts a lot variety of birds in the early morning where you can hear the sweet chirp of their happiness.
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| View from the Entrance |
The owner is very friendly and professional. Post a typical local cuisine breakfast, he would take the group on a small tour of the estate covering coffee, pepper, paddy fields and varieties of flora and a morning walk in these fields lifts up the inner spirit.
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| Plantation tour |
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| Estate |
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| Paddy fields |
Being conveniently located, we were able to visit some of the important attractions in the daytime and spent the evenings in the relaxed atmosphere. The homestay is 40 kms away from Bhagamandala and is 10 km to the Raja's seat in the opposite and one could cover the waterfall. Bhagamandala known for the birth point of river Kaveri from where it starts it flows has its shrine and overlooks a valley of beautiful mountains filled with lush green.
One can plan to head to Chelavara falls which is at a distance of 40 kms back towards the journey of homestay. The other waterfalls Abbi and Irpu are quite far and would lay beyond the homestay in the ongoing direction, so can be saved for the other day.
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| Talacauvery-Birth place of river Kaveri |
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| The sight of the valley from Talacauvery |
After spending a decent evening, we returned back to the homestay which had begun to engross itself into a silent calm breezy atmosphere. The dinner was marvellous given to the fact that it comes directly from the touch of the Owner's homemaker instead of a commercial chef, which adds beauty to the taste and making the local food lip smacking. It feels heaven to have the simple local cuisine after a tiring day and added to that having such food amidst nature with the silent cries of the night, the wind talking to the swaying trees is a delight in itself.
All in all, we enjoyed blissful moments at this homestay and our entire group was thrilled with the stay.
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| With my happy niece ending the journey at homestay |
If interested to stay at this place, you can more details at the following site http://chirpyblooms.weebly.com/
Enroute to Bangalore, we halted at Dubare elephant camp. After reaching we found a deadly crowded place. To reach the camp, one needs to board the local boat which already had a lengthy line for it. Many others had already taken the choice of walking into the rocky path covering a kilometre of 2. As we started our baby steps we realized the path was quite slippery and was an act of adventure. We called it off and happily waived at the elephants far away. We did make some goodtime playing in the river water.
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| The adventurous slippery path leading to Dubbare camp |
Heading on further, we covered Tibetan Monastery & Nisarghadharma and finally hitting the non-stop road to Bangalore. A great trip to remember
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