It was a long Diwali weekend and our plans to visit Chikmagalur finally materialized. The amount of anticipation and excitement for the trip was sky high. As we all know, corporate life can sometimes be an insufferable companion and hence we were all just waiting to get away from it for a few days and relax at a serene place. And what better place for that than Chikmagalur! 🙂
Chikmagalur is a small town, nestled in the south western part of Karnataka. It is about 5 hrs from Bangalore. Chikmagalur in native Kannada language means “the town of the younger daughter”. The town is said to have been given as a dowry to the younger daughter of Rukmangada, the legendary chief of Sakrepatna and hence the name.
We started off our journey on Friday morning. And after a round of heavy and delicious breakfast, we finally hit the highway. The journey to Chikmagalur was extremely enjoyable with our non-stop singing, dancing and crazy games. We finally reached our destination around 5 PM and checked into a hotel called ‘Planters Court’. After a round of freshening up, we decided to visit a local park (as suggested by the hotel staff). The park was nothing memorable. So, post that we decided to head back to our hotel rooms and call it a night, as we were supposed to head towards our home stay the next morning.
Baba Budan managed to get hold of seven beans, which he hid among the folds of his long robes. And as he was a very saintly man, very few people thought of suspecting him. He left Yemen through the port of Mocha (from where the coffee by that name comes) and came back to Chikmagalur. He planted the beans – and voila, they grew! 😀 Amazing isn’t it?
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That’s where we stayed! |
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The view from our cottage! |
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The out house and dining area. |
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The owner’s house. |
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The difficult climb up to our cottage! |
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The path next to our cottage that leads to the huge coffee plantation! |
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View from Mullayangiri. |
After a tiring day, we finally headed back to our beautiful estate. There would always be a slight drizzle in the evening. When it would start drizzling, we would slowly head towards the out house to just sit back and enjoy the view, we would connect our phones to the huge speakers to listen to music while listening to the rain and drink numerous cups of freshly brewed heavenly filter coffee with hot snacks! 😀 Add this with great people as company and it turned into the most perfect holiday! 🙂 We truly forgot all our worries and tensions of life back in Bangalore when we were in that place.
Well, my long diwali weekend was truly well spent in an awesome place with amazing people. This trip was by far one of the best and the most relaxing holidays I have been on this year. Hope I will have more Travelogue updates to give in 2014 as well.
P.S: This blog post was already posted a month back but got deleted by mistake. Even though I couldn’t rewrite the whole post the same way I had written earlier, I have still tried. 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to come and read my post. Until next time, it’s adios from my side amigos! 🙂