Sothern Bliss

Known for its extravagant beauty the Indian sub continent shows its mesmerising love towards you through its natural bliss all along its lengths and breadths. Southern part of India holds a myriad of examples of the vast Flora fauna and hills with plantations.

Coorg or Kodagu district located in the Western Ghats of Southern west Karnatka covers an area of 4100 sq km approximately is a must visit for any nature lover. with coffee plantations spread over the hills and amazing waterfalls, this place proves to be a place of serenity and peace away form the rush of city life.

Raasta

No matter how hard you work for earning a living its far far easier to earn a life if you're in India, Coorg acts as a place of peace wherein you can experience an amazing break away from the rush. Here lies the concept of home stays which will make you experience the comfort of home in a place of mesmerising beauty. This place can easily steal your heart away and give you the WOW! moment of you life when you rise and shine from your room and the first thing you see outside is the beauty of nature which will surely make you heart pound with joy, maximum number of home stays offer you the natural filter coffee from their very own coffee plantations along with the compatible gesture of the localities living there which will make the morning a finest morning.

      

TOURING

The small district is surrounded with many points of attractions which will add feathers to the cap of the coorg district. Travelling in coorg is comfortable in the privately hired jeeps or taxis which are professionals in driving on the hills and also sometimes act as local tour guides.

One of the most visited place is the DUBARE ELEPHANT CAMP in Coorg where you can enjoy a couple of things of interests from riding an ATV to riding an elephant from rafting to just floating in the water, this places is fit for all age groups, yeh jagah aapse umar dekh kar pyaar nahi karti...

This place is full of adventure and at the same time provides a peaceful environment for many people 

 Coexistence of many cultures in India shows the brotherhood of the citizens of India. There are many examples which shows the brotherhood, some temples and monasteries in coorg add to those examples such as:

THE OMKARESHWARA TEMPLE, MADIKERE, here the temple though a Hindu temple of lord Shiva is built in an Islamic architecture style, the dome and minarets towering over the tiled roofs of the city. This is backed by a story where the ruler of Kodagu district Lingarajendra II killed an innocent Bhramin. The reason is not firmly found out but people say that he killed the bhramin as he opposed the king's misdeeds. The story continues telling that the Bhramin's spirit started to trouble the king, he then turned to other bhramins to find the solution of this problem, who told them the only way to get rid of this problem is to bring a LINGA from Varanasi where he killed the bhramin. The king did the same as he was told by other bhramins, he brought the linga and constructed a temple around it in Islamic style known as Omkareshwara Temple. Its said that the spirit of the bhramin didn't haunt the king after he brought the linga and constructed the temple.

Sri Omkareshwar Temple

The Holy Idols

THE NAMDROLING MONASTERY, ALIKUMARI is the largest teaching centre of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. The peace inside the monastery will calm your soul and the beautiful architecture will take you to just another mesmerising world.

The Namdroling Monastery

 This place can easily take your mind into a place of serenity and can make you feel the divinity of Lord Buddha.
Here we also have some short term courses on meditations and teachings on Buddhism where we can get involved in the spiritual practises done by the monks.

Sri Bhagandeshwara Temple

The last place i went to was TALACAUVERY, located in Bhramagiri hill, known as the place of origin of the river CAUVERY in Karnataka which is also known as Dakshin Ganga. This river is considered holy in Karnataka as it quenches the water need in the city so, Talacauvery is greatly known for Sri Bhagandeshwara where people take a dip into the holy 'kunda' before proceeding to the main temple Talacauvery Temple where people worship the Holy water which acts as a life source to the city of Karnataka.

Sri Talacauvery Temple

The Talacauvery temple is a holy shrine of the cauvery water on which Karnataka and many other states rely upon. We have a Kunda in between of the temple where we can do rituals and give offerings. There is also a path behind the temple which leads to the hill top on which the temple is situated.

How To Reach:

Through Bus:

Coorg is not directly connected through buses but the nearest bus stand is MADIKERI to which all the bus routes in Karnataka is well connected through KSRTC buses. Then after reaching Madikeri we can take a local bus to Coorg from there itself

Through Train:

The nearest rail line to Coorg is in Madikeri town, which is the Mangalore to Hassan railway line with Sakleshpur or Subrahmanya as the closest railway stations.

Through Flight:

The nearest airport to Coorg is CALICUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Vayittiri which is 144 km away from Coorg city centre .

                                           Life is a SHORT JOURNEY with LONG TRIPS :)