Mysore-Coorg Trip

Date: 25^h Dec 2008 to 27^th Dec 2008

As we had holiday for Christmas on Thursday 25^th Dec 2008 we took leave on Friday 26^th Dec 2008 and decided to go for coorg trip.

We reached Mysore on 24^th night itself and stayed in akka’s house.

25^th Dec 2008.

We did not plan in ahead anything for 25^th dec. On 25^th morning after breakfast visited Mysore palace and came back to akka’s house and took rest. Evening we had been to Dasara Exhibition along with akka and sachin (my nephew). It was a pleasant evening without rain so sachin was able to play some games and we roamed in the exhibition for around two to three hours.

My Brother-in-law booked the cab for us for two days (26^th and 27^th dec).

26^th Dec 2008.

Bandipur

            Our cab came at 7AM to pick us, we had breakfast and were ready by that time. We headed towards coorg. On the way to coorg we could able to see some deers and elephants in bandipur Natinal Park. We did not go for any safari there and headed towards coorg. At around 10AM he took us to Irpu falls. It was a nice falls and we were able to go near the falls and play in water in the water.

We had a nice time till 12 PM. Next

Irpu falls

Abbhi falls

 we asked cab driver to take us to Thalacauveri (Birth place of river cauvery) It was bit far from coog may be around 60 to 70 KM from coorg city. We reached there at around 2 PM. We visited temple and saw the cauveri river “ugama stanam”. There was a small hill with steps we climbed that hill and had nice scenic view of nature. We headed towards Coorg and reached coorg at around 5-30 PM. We went to one more falls called abbhi falls.  It is a nice falls in the centre of some tea garden, but unlike iruppu falls we can not get in to the water we can view the falls from some distance. We took some snaps 

Coorg halli mane

and headed to-wards Kushalnagar where we booked the hotel. We had booked the Coorg halli mane in kushalnagar. We reached that hotel at around 7-30 PM.

It was a small resort kind of thing with around 10 to 12 rooms. The Rooms were neat and were happy for the room what we had booked. We had dinner in the resort and slept.

  

27^th Dec 2008

Dubare

We got up early and went to Dubare Elephent camp. We had breakfast on the way and reached the elephant camp at around 8 AM. It is good place in coorg, we can easily spend half day there. We were able to see 10 to 20 elephants, we went in small boat to cross the stream and reached the elephant camp. We get in to the water and took some snaps with elephant; we went for elephant ride and feed the elephant. While coming back we came by walking across the stream. It was a nice experience and we had a greate time in water out there.

Dubare

Kaveri nisarga dhama

Golden Temple

Next we went to one more place in kushlnagar called Kaveri nisarga dhama. We had our lunch in that place stroll in that place for a while. It is like Small Island and the cauveri river stream is running around this place. We got a chance to get in to small stream there and hada nice time there till evening. Next we headed to one more place called Golden temple situated in Tibetian colony in kushalnagar. It was a good place and very calm place. We had a nice tiem there till 4PM.

We headed towards Mysore at 4-30PM and reached Mysore at 6-30 PM.

The Next day 28^th December we came back to Bangalore from Mysore.

This concludes our memorable trip to coorg.