We originally thought of visiting Chikmagalur and staying there as I was of the notion that Chikmagalur itsself has coffee plantation and actually is situated on mountain. Only when we reached there from Belur, driving through some picturesque villages & roads that I realized the city is on plain and is a beautiful but costly place to stay.
We started for searching places to stay in any of the nearby coffee plantation areas. English was not so much used in local people there, Hindi seems to be language locals dislike. A time came when we were frantically calling friends for help...we found a young man getting out of his car to go to a nearby building. Like a last plank of the sinking ship, I clung to him for help. Like him everybody else in our trip helped for giving information, but this gentleman broke all our previous records of receiving helps....he stood with us for nearly half an hour calling all his connected friends to get a suitable coffee plantation stay option. He came out to be a lawyer who was about to enter the court right opposite to where he parked his car.
At the end though we took a bigger risk by deciding against staying in a nearby plantation area and decided to pass through many such plantations to head for Sringeri.
Sringeri is a small devotional place in the valley having a beautiful river as a company among guarding mountains.
Morning in Belur as we start the day for Chikmagalur -
KSTDC hotel in Belur - jawans on the morning drill
A coffee plantation on the way to Sringeri -
Sringeri temple -
In front of Sringeri temple
Morning in Sringeri temple -
We started for searching places to stay in any of the nearby coffee plantation areas. English was not so much used in local people there, Hindi seems to be language locals dislike. A time came when we were frantically calling friends for help...we found a young man getting out of his car to go to a nearby building. Like a last plank of the sinking ship, I clung to him for help. Like him everybody else in our trip helped for giving information, but this gentleman broke all our previous records of receiving helps....he stood with us for nearly half an hour calling all his connected friends to get a suitable coffee plantation stay option. He came out to be a lawyer who was about to enter the court right opposite to where he parked his car.
At the end though we took a bigger risk by deciding against staying in a nearby plantation area and decided to pass through many such plantations to head for Sringeri.
Sringeri is a small devotional place in the valley having a beautiful river as a company among guarding mountains.
Morning in Belur as we start the day for Chikmagalur -
KSTDC hotel in Belur - jawans on the morning drill
A coffee plantation on the way to Sringeri -
Sringeri temple -
In front of Sringeri temple
Morning in Sringeri temple -
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