Coorg (Medikeri)

Hmmm.. What to write about such a wonderful and beautiful place… I and my other 3 friends visited Coorg and near by places this month. It was really a great and an adventurous experience… We enjoyed a lot. We had planned a 3-day trip for this. On the first day the places that we visited were Rangantittu (Bird Sanctuary) near Mysore, Golden Temple and Harangi Dam near KhushalNagar (on the way to Medikeri) and Nisarga Dhama.. (Its basically a small place which looks like a forest and inside that there is a river which flows.. and its a good place to play in water.. We went for a small Elephant ride there.. :-) and later reached Medikeri by evening..

On the next day, that is on the 2nd day we visited Bhagamandala, Talacauvery and Abbey falls. Down the hill a few hundred yards away from the confluence of the three rivers is the Bhagandeswara temple. This temple is of Kerala style. All pilgrims that visit Talacauvery, first worship at the Bagandeshwara temple, prior to making the trek to the Cauvery temple. Half a mile away from Talacauvery. But there was lot of construction work going on in the temple.. :-(

Then we visted Talacauvery where river Cauvery is believed to emerge. The summit of Brahma Giri (mountain) is the highest point in Talacauvery. A magnificent view of the surroundings is visible from the crest of Brahma Giri. The temple is approximately 300 feet below the summit of Brahma Giri. Brahma Giri is also considered sacred and all able-bodied pilgrims trudge up to the top. There were stone steps built from the temple to the crest, to ease the trek up the mountain. Because of the high altitude, fog was prevalent in Talacauvery. We climbed this highest view andd felt like we were at top of the world.. The Mountain views were really good with full of mist and fog with lot of breeze. And really after seeing that view even though we had walked and climbed a lot of steps.. our legs wern't paining.. :-)

Later by evening we visited Abbey Falls. It's really a beautiful place to visit. But people are not allowed to play in the falls.. :-( People just visit this place to enjoy the flow of water.. The way to this falls is through a coffee estate. Its a walk of nearly 1-2 kms within the estate. After visiting this place we went to a place called Raja Seat which is just 1/2 km away from the Medikeri city centre. This is a park which has a beautiful View point present in Medikeri. We were there to see the Sun set by evening. Also in the park there were few programmes where going on.

After visiting these places, we decided to go to Nagarhole forest. We wanted to go for a safari ride over there. But the safari timings there is from morning 6 am to 9 am. So we thought to leave Medikeri early morning for that may be at 3 am, as the forest is around 97 km from Medikeri. Hmmm... but later we decided to leave Medikeri the same day evening around 6 pm and reach to an estate nearby the forest and stay there for 1 night which is just 10 kms away from the forest.

Hmmm.. we reached that estate at nearly 9.30 pm at night.. What to write abt the journey to the forest area at night.. It was too scary and adventurous.. :-) But it was really a good place to stay.. Apart from us there were few other ppl who had stayed in that estate..

Next we woke up early morning, got ready and left to the Forest for safari...We enjoyed the morning ride to a forest with full of green nature all around.. Hmm. in B'lore we never get to see such a nature and weather... :-(
On the way we saw lot of Deers.. near by our vehicle itself... and took lot of pictures... So by 8 am we were there ready for a safari ride... But unfortunatly we couldn't see many animals there's.. .We just missed to watch a Tiger in the forest.. :-( But anyways we saw few other animals and the rid and safari was good...

So from there we directly started our journey way back to B'lore... on the way visited Mysore and a place called Nanjungud.. And were back home by 6 pm... As we had to go back to office the next day.. :-( Hmmm.. we did not feel like coming back but wat to do we had to be there.. :-((