Sunday, December 27, 2015

Travel Mysore

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Distance - 135 Kms from Bangalore
Travel period - 1-2 days 
Time to reach - 2.5 to 3 hours with 80 kph
Type - City
Best time to visit - June to February
Famous for: Mysore Pak (Sweet)

Mysore Palace

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Lets begin our journey:


Preferable time to leave Bangalore - Around 6 AM


Day 1:

*Head onto Mysore - Bangalore highway
*Cross Kengeri, Bidadi, Ramanagar, Channapatna, Maddur, Mandya, Srirangapatna and enter Mysore
*Lets head towards our 1st destination Chamundi hills (Its considered as a holy place where goddess Chamundi protected Mysore from a demon Mahishasura and protecting Mysore still.)


Chamundi Hills

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*Next lets get down from the hill and visit the famous palace which is our 2nd destination Lalithmahal Palace.

Lalitha Mahal Palace

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*Our 3rd destination will be the famous Mysore Zoo. (The zoo is very huge).

Mysore Zoo

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*Lets move to our 4th destination Jagamohan Palace.

Jagamohan Palace

*Lets end our day here and relax.



Day 2:

*Lets start our second day with Kukralli Lake which is our 5th destination.

Kukralli Lake


*Then lets move onto world famous Mysore Palace which is a mind blowing 6th destination.
 

Mysore Palace

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*After visiting the Mysore palace lets begin our journey to the wonderful Brindavan garden which is next to KRS dam for watching a beautiful musical fountain in the evening. This is our 7th destination.


 *After watching the wonderful musical fountain we can head back to our homes.


Note: If you can spend a day more the you can visit GRS fantasy park and enjoy the whole day.




Saturday, December 26, 2015

Travel Coorg

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Distance - 250 Kms from Bangalore
Travel period - 3 days minimum
Time to reach - 4 to 4.5 hours with 80 kph
Type - hill station
Activities available - trekking, rafting, elephant camp, nature camps,
Best time to visit - September to February
Famous for - Pork (Pandi curry), Kadambutt, nooput, Paaput

Lets begin our journey now

Day 1

Preferable time to leave Bangalore - around 6 am

* Head on to banglore-mysore highway
* Cross kengeri, bidadi, ramanagar, channapatna, maddur, mandya, srirangapatna
* After we cross srirangapatna there is a diversion to yelwala (roads are 50% fine) else we can continue travelling to mysore till columbia-asia junction.
* Take a right and hit the ring road which connects hunsur road.
* Take a right again at the hunsur road and cross hunsur, piriyapatna and reach kushalnagar.

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* Take a left from the highway to reach the 1st point - Golden temple [Kushalanagar]
* Now lets proceed further and hit the Madikeri highway again and reach our 2nd destination Kaveri Nisargadhama
* Next lets proceed further and reach our 3rd destination Dubare forest.
* Enjoy in Dubare forest and reach out to the nearby home stays and hit a break for our cars and relax with beautiful nature.

Day 2

* Lets have our breakfast and start our day and reach out Abbey falls which is our 4th destination.
* Now lets visit the holy place Talakaveri [birth place of river Kaveri] which is our 5th destination and climb Brahmagiri hills for a fantastic view of nature.
* Lets head back to Madikeri to town and reach out our 6th destination Raja seat for the beautiful sunset and enjoy time in the garden with beautiful fountains.
* Lets end our day with this and relax.

Day 3

* Now lets make a move towards the south part of Coorg and visit Igguthappa temple on the way which is our 7th destination
* After that lets visit Cheluvara falls which is the 8th destination.
* Next lets go to the wonderful waterfalls [Irupu falls] which is our 9th destination.
* Next lets visit Nagarahole forest which is our last and 10th destination in the evening and return back to Bangalore.

Note: for trekkers, you can visit Kote betta, Thadiyandamol and also Mandalapatti.


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