3 days in the natural lap of Coorg - Day 2 & 3

Day 2:

When we woke up in the morning hot puri's and hot coffee was waiting for us from  Capitol Village Resort's 's kitchen. Believe me breakfast was really yummy and we enjoyed it with the nature in our private balcony of the room. 

Our today's plan was to visit Bhagamandla, Talakaveri, and Raja Seat.

We drove to Bhagamandla and the greenery on the both sides of this zigzag road is really nice. We visited to Bhagandeshwara temple and felt it is very peaceful. Interiors of the temple  looks like  Kerala style temple. There is Triveni Sangama at a short distance from the temple where the river
Kaveri is joined by two tributaries, the river  Kannike and the Sujyoti river. It is a crystal clean water and I just step down into the water and did not feel like coming out of it at all. There are pay&use toilets available here which are neatly maintained. We spent around 1 hour 30 minutes here.

Bhagandeshwara Temple Inside view

Triveni Sangama

Next we were supposed to visit Talakaveri. As one of our own friend was driving our car and he was pretty new. As you all know the roads were zigzag and the way to Talakaveri was a bit steep high and narrow. We did not want to take risk so we enquired with few localities over there. They guided us very well and one among them agreed to come with us driving our car.

We reached Talakaveri Temple. Beauty of the view from up hill and temple if indescribable with words. There is also a water tank where you can make a wish and throw a coin. People say coin has to land in the centre of tank where there is a Shiva linga shaped sculpture then your wish will come true.

Wish Tank

Benches to rest near Talakaveri

 

The person who had come along with us driving our car had to leave early so we did not get a chance to go up to the hill. We spent around 30 mins here in Talakaveri.

Then we drove back to Madikeri from Bhagamandla ourselves enjoying lush greenery of the roads. We had our lunch at Athithi. It is quite average food both taste wise and quantity wise. Even the ambiance is not so good.

After lunch  we went to Raja Seat, nice beautiful flower garden with a view point where you can see the  zig zag road which you just drove before your lunch. Amazing. 

There is a small children train in which you can take a ride. This gives you a feeling of you going back to your child hood days. You must try it. We spent another 1 hour 30 mins at raja seat clicking pictures and then went back to resort.

 

Toy Train at Raja's Seat

After reaching resort we relaxed for a while and then went to roam around resort. There is a small lake and there is kids play area as well. We clicked few pictures there. We spent some time sitting some time in our balcony and enjoy the chirping of insects while sun was setting down.

Lake in the resort

The dinner for that evening was buffet arranged by Capitol Village Resort in the kitchen area which was quite good. After having our dinner we spent some time near reception area as they have WIFI there, then came back to our rooms and went to bed. 

Our next day's plan was visiting Dubbare forest and driving back home.

Day 3:

We woke up and got ready. The day's breakfast was arranged in the kitchen area. That was a buffet which included Dosa, Eggs and many more. After having breakfast we did checkout from resort. A very pleasant stay. The resort is economically best and is neatly maintained. 


We were set ti visit Dubare Forest. This is an elephant camp on the banks of the river Kaveri. I love elephants and this was my most favorite place in our Coorg trip. Here you can take an elephant ride, you can feed them and you can see elephant bathing. There is an option for still water rafting or you can take a boat ride (you will have to share the motor boat with other tourists) to cross the river to reach the camp.

All the activities will get over by 10:30 in the morning here, so you make sure you reach the place between 09:00 - 09:30 in the morning. We got to see elephant bathing, and there was a small cute elephant which was 2 years old. There are around 20 elephants.


The road to the Dubare forest is narrow and single lane. Google maps were very helpful in reaching all the destinations at Coorg.

After Dubare we set off to come back to Bangalore, we took Hasan Road (which is terrifically wrong option) from Kushal Nagar rather than taking Mysore Madikeri Road. Because of the worst Hasan road condition we lost time, otherwise we had a plan of visiting any of the places in Mysore.

As the road condition was bad, we decided back to come on Mysore road, Thanks to Google maps, we reached Mysore and had our lunch there around 03:00 p.m. Then we started to Bangalore, as it was Sunday evening Bangalore-Mysore road traffic was no lesser than Bangalore city traffic. We reached Bangalore around 06:30 p.m. in the evening with a tea break near Ramanagr which was perfect end to our 3 days trip.

I hope the itinerary   of my trip helped you in planning yours. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
 
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Tripping :)



p.s. : I have not given all pictures, as main purpose of this blog is to show itinerary :)