The long weekends are always good to explore the nature. I have planned this year as my "Year of Travel", at-least to start the travel experience, hence looking forward to visit most of the places. The long weekend of May 1,2 and 3 didn't seem like losing out. We planned a Madikeri Trip with college buddies and we were 5 of us. Four from Bangalore and one from Puttur planned for this trip.
Madikeri is about 85km from Puttur and I had been quite a few times here but did not cover all the places.So, this was the opportunity to explore and have a good time with friends :). Since one of us had some work , we couldn't go to Madikeri on May 1st and planned to leave early morning next day.
As there are ample number of buses from Bangalore to Mysore we did not book any buses. This was the costly mistake we have done and realized during our return trip.
Madikeri is 270km far from Bangalore and according to our estimated time, we planned to reach there by 5-6 hours, but in Karnataka Sarige aka Red Bus it took 7 hours due to the multiple stops during the journey. We left Bangalore at 7am after having breakfast in Kadamba, Satellite bus stop and we reached Madikeri at 2pm. The journey was bit of stress as we had to sit still for long hours.
Lunch was at Surabhi Hotel in Madikeri, after which we arrived at our home-stay - Pompei Valley.
The home stay looked good, it had good acre of land which was filled with greenery all around. The valley home stay had 3 cottage with good space to hang around. The weather was pretty good and could have been better if it was rainy season. There was partial drizzle which made the Madikeri environment feel alive.
Around 5pm, Holla arrived from Mangalore. After settling down in Home-stay we set to roam Madikeri in his WagonR.
The drizzle-weather-greenery had bought the calmness among us and it was feel good moment. We roamed around Madikeri in the evening. We also came across a lot of visitor's in Madikeri as it was a long weekend.
We reached back to home-stay at 8:45pm and got ready for the night party. We had bought drinks and snacks from Madikeri town and for dinner we had ordered from home stay itself.
The night party was good with good weather and with friends made it more beautiful. We also had a dog nearby which Nikki named "Suzi". The night passed slowly, we missed the camp fire as we were involved with many other discussions, lol .
We got up late around 9am. We roamed around the cottage, lake and so. It was calm and pleasant.
We had breakfast from Home-stay itself, but it was expensive as Quality was not as par.
We checked out the home-stay around 2pm and planned to visit Madalpatti. Madalpatti is the hill station. It is 18km from Madikeri, we did not choose WaganR as it was off-road ride.We rented a Jeep. The road were in-fact not good for car, it was suited for jeep only.
The view from Madalpatti was amazing.With the breeze all around it felt definitely out of Bangalore :P.
We had lunch from Green-Hotel, it was not good though and then we planned for departure.
This is where we were worried, we had not booked the return tickets and due to the long weekend there was no bus with decent seats. We had to take the Karnataka sarige bus only.
We finally managed to get the Karnataka Sarige from Madikeri to Mysore around 7pm and from Mysore to Bangalore at 10pm. We arrived at Bangalore at 2pm. I took the bus to Marathalli where as the other 3 took the Ola cab.
It was stressful during the return journey. But when we look back into these 2 days, the memories will put a smile on our face as this two days were enjoyed with friends. :)
Cheers :)
Madikeri is about 85km from Puttur and I had been quite a few times here but did not cover all the places.So, this was the opportunity to explore and have a good time with friends :). Since one of us had some work , we couldn't go to Madikeri on May 1st and planned to leave early morning next day.
As there are ample number of buses from Bangalore to Mysore we did not book any buses. This was the costly mistake we have done and realized during our return trip.
Madikeri is 270km far from Bangalore and according to our estimated time, we planned to reach there by 5-6 hours, but in Karnataka Sarige aka Red Bus it took 7 hours due to the multiple stops during the journey. We left Bangalore at 7am after having breakfast in Kadamba, Satellite bus stop and we reached Madikeri at 2pm. The journey was bit of stress as we had to sit still for long hours.
Lunch was at Surabhi Hotel in Madikeri, after which we arrived at our home-stay - Pompei Valley.
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| Hollazz, Home Stay! |
Around 5pm, Holla arrived from Mangalore. After settling down in Home-stay we set to roam Madikeri in his WagonR.
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We reached back to home-stay at 8:45pm and got ready for the night party. We had bought drinks and snacks from Madikeri town and for dinner we had ordered from home stay itself.
The night party was good with good weather and with friends made it more beautiful. We also had a dog nearby which Nikki named "Suzi". The night passed slowly, we missed the camp fire as we were involved with many other discussions, lol .
We got up late around 9am. We roamed around the cottage, lake and so. It was calm and pleasant.
We had breakfast from Home-stay itself, but it was expensive as Quality was not as par.
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| Jeep Journey |
The view from Madalpatti was amazing.With the breeze all around it felt definitely out of Bangalore :P.
We had lunch from Green-Hotel, it was not good though and then we planned for departure.
This is where we were worried, we had not booked the return tickets and due to the long weekend there was no bus with decent seats. We had to take the Karnataka sarige bus only.
We finally managed to get the Karnataka Sarige from Madikeri to Mysore around 7pm and from Mysore to Bangalore at 10pm. We arrived at Bangalore at 2pm. I took the bus to Marathalli where as the other 3 took the Ola cab.
It was stressful during the return journey. But when we look back into these 2 days, the memories will put a smile on our face as this two days were enjoyed with friends. :)
Cheers :)
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| PC: Holla |
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