We(me and my husband), usually try to make a long trip to some place once in every three months. This time as it was a long weekend and we planned an outing. We started thinking the previous night itself, i.e. on 9th April, Thursday. We wanted to visit a place which we have not explored earlier at least me. We also wanted a place not too expensive and don’t cut our pockets much. We first planned to go to Kotilingeshwara at Kolar on Friday and back to Bangalore and to Dodda Aalamaraa in Mysore the next day. But I didn’t like the plan of shunting back and forth and it was also very hot and I wanted to visit some hill station. So my dear husband suggested Madikere which he had already visited and he knows a person who has a resort there, so that we needn’t worry about our stay. He also suggested that it would come under our budgets (which we had in mind been about 3,000 to 4,000 rupees). And I have also heard from few people that it’s a lovely place to visit. So, we finally came to a conclusion at about 11.30 in the night that we would start to Madikere early in the morning.
But in the morning the next day on 10th of April, Sai Sharan unfortunately had some stomach upset and we cancelled the plan. But after some medications he became fine after 11 in the morning and we also were not ready to leave a good opportunity. So we decided by 12’O clock that we take our car and my husband invited one of his friend called Komesh to join us for the trip. So we started packing and around 3’O clock we left Bangalore. Madikere is about 250 kms. From Bangalore which takes about 51/2 hours to 6 hours. We had a slow journey and took nearly 7 hours to reach. We reached about 10’O clock in the night. The whole town was asleep and we couldn’t find one vegetarian restaurant. Finally after searching for about 10 mins. We found one and had our dinner. The food was hot but not so good. As it was late night we had to adjust. Th
en we had to go to our resort called “Happy Holiday Homes” in a small place called Moornad which is about 2kms. away from Madikere.
It’s a nice and calm place run by a couple called Kashi Aiyappa and Swathi. The people were very hospitable and
even when we reached late at about 11.30 they invited us in and gave us a room which was little small. As it was holiday season we couldn’t get rooms. But he somehow adjusted and gave us a room. We were really thankful to him and as I asked some milk for the baby Swathi his wife immediately boiled and gave it for him. We went off to sleep.
If you want to stay at Madikere you can blindly go ahead to this place but with prior bookings. You can contact Mr.Kashi Aiyappa in 093421 47137/0827 147137 for a stay @ Happy Homes.
The next day morning 11th of April, Komesh and my Husband Bala, woke up at 5.30 and went for a walk to the nearby river. As the baby was sleeping I couldn’t go with them. So I stayed in the room and there was hot water gushing in the bathroom. So I took a nice bath and had nice steaming hot coffee prepared by Swathi. Then I started discovering the place around. It was not so cold but the weather was chill and nice to be there during the hot summer away from Bangalore city life. I was so surprised and thrilled to see a lot of variety of plants and Mr.Aiyappa was explaining about the places there. He has his own coffee plantations behind in about 20 acres. Komesh and Bala returned soon and they also started getting ready and Mr.Aiyappa offered us breakfast which Swathi was preparing. We waited for Sai Sharan to wake up. I and Bala were really surprised to see Sai Sharan Still sleeping till 8.30 as he would get by 7.30 maximum everyday here at Bangalore.
In the mean time we met a couple of people who were also from Bangalore. We became happier when we came to meet a person named George who also works for the same company Bala does, Intel. He introduced his wife named Gene who is School Principal here at Bangalore. She informed us that she had read my husbands blog while browsing for Madikere and places of stay and came to know about Mr. Aiyappa’s cottage. What a coincidence it was!
Then Swathi served us with a hot breakfast, a very special dish called Papputtu with nice hot Sambar. It was yummy. But we didn’t take to our fill as we were little afraid of the curvy roads there at Madikere. After breakfast we immediately started to Thala Kaveri, a place where the river Kaveri Originates. It is about 45kms from Moornad. But it took us nearly 1 ½ hours to reach there because of the roads. In between we also stopped in a few places to look at the scenic beauty around. L
ovely place! Then Komesh was excited seeing a tree full of otton seeds bursting out and I was also very happy seeing coffee plantation everywhere as I am a coffee freak by nature. So I collected some coffee beans and few coffee leaves as samples. We reached Thala Kaveri by 11.30. the place was not crowded a
nd we could have a nice dharshan and I took a dip in the holy water and 
prayed well for the welfare of our family.
Then we started from there at about 12.30 and reached Madikere by 1.30. It was lunch time and we enquired for good vegetarian Hotel and one of my husband’s friend recommended the place called Shri Krishna Bhavan. It was a small place but the lunch was good. Then I did a little shopping for some spices an
d Coffee powder. Then we proceeded a place called Raja’s Seat. There was toy train and my son started jumping seeing the train. So we all took a round in the train. I had gone to my childhood days where we used to travel at parks. Then we went to see the Raja’s Seat. There was a beautiful gard
en with lovely flowers and from Raja’s Seat we could see the view of the whole of Coorg district. I got so much infatuated seeing the place. We took some photos and left to Dhubare.
We reached Dhubare at about 5’O clock in the evening, a place where they train wild elephants. The river Kaveri was flowing and we have cross a small distance in the river to reach the other side to see the elephants. There are boats available. But we decided to walk through the w
ater. I was little frightened to cross as the stones were very slippery but it was a very great experience. Sai Sharan was very happy seeing the water and Bala made him sit in the water and played. He was not ready to come out of the water at all and started jumping every now and then. When we reached the other side it was feeding time for the elephants and there was a female elephant which was tamed and trained already with its small calf. The sight was so exciting. Sai Sharan loves elephants and he wanted to go near them and play with them. But I was little frightened as it were not fully trained. The Mahaout who was with the elephant nam
ed the female as Mythili and the Baby Calf as Mandara. Then we went to see other elephants which were not trained and were very ferocious. So they were kept in huge open cages made of wood. We can see them but they cannot get out. Bala got me a hair of the elephant which is considered as a good thing to have to ward off from evil according to the Indian belief. Then we saw two elephants bathing in the river. What an exciting sight to see them bath and play! Then Bala sent me and Sai Sharan in the boat as I got myself hurt in a sharp stone in the leg. Bala and Komesh walked in the water with quick steps and reached in five minutes. It was already 6.30 and it was getting dark. Then we finally visited a place called Bylakuppe, a few minutes drive from Dhubare. We reached there by 6.45. It was a 
Tibetan Refugee Camp and there was a big Buddhist Monastery and was called as the Golden temple. The tomb of Buddha was so huge and there were beautiful lightings everywhere as we heard that there was some festival going on. There were nearly about 5000 monks doing pooja. The golden Buddha statue was so huge and gave a peace of mind
as we saw him. As it was already late and we had to reach Bangalore that night itself. There were a lot of shops were Tibetan goods were sold. We did a little bit window shopping as our trip was a budget trip. Then we started at about 8’O clock. Komesh started driving the car and we all went of to sleep. And at about 10 in the night after reaching Mandya we had a nice dinner at a roadside Dhabha. The food was cool. Then we started driving back to Bangalore. We reached at about 1’ O clock in the night.Another thing that happened is that we had a small pooja at the temple of our family Goddess near Mettur Dam which is 200kms away from Bangalore on 12th April. This pooja is compulsory for all the gents of the family to attend. The ladies cannot go there. So as we reached Bangalore Bala immediately took Komesh along with him, had a bath and left for the temple pooja. I and Sai Sharan went off to sleep after a very tired travel.
But in the morning the next day on 10th of April, Sai Sharan unfortunately had some stomach upset and we cancelled the plan. But after some medications he became fine after 11 in the morning and we also were not ready to leave a good opportunity. So we decided by 12’O clock that we take our car and my husband invited one of his friend called Komesh to join us for the trip. So we started packing and around 3’O clock we left Bangalore. Madikere is about 250 kms. From Bangalore which takes about 51/2 hours to 6 hours. We had a slow journey and took nearly 7 hours to reach. We reached about 10’O clock in the night. The whole town was asleep and we couldn’t find one vegetarian restaurant. Finally after searching for about 10 mins. We found one and had our dinner. The food was hot but not so good. As it was late night we had to adjust. Th
en we had to go to our resort called “Happy Holiday Homes” in a small place called Moornad which is about 2kms. away from Madikere.It’s a nice and calm place run by a couple called Kashi Aiyappa and Swathi. The people were very hospitable and
even when we reached late at about 11.30 they invited us in and gave us a room which was little small. As it was holiday season we couldn’t get rooms. But he somehow adjusted and gave us a room. We were really thankful to him and as I asked some milk for the baby Swathi his wife immediately boiled and gave it for him. We went off to sleep.If you want to stay at Madikere you can blindly go ahead to this place but with prior bookings. You can contact Mr.Kashi Aiyappa in 093421 47137/0827 147137 for a stay @ Happy Homes.
The next day morning 11th of April, Komesh and my Husband Bala, woke up at 5.30 and went for a walk to the nearby river. As the baby was sleeping I couldn’t go with them. So I stayed in the room and there was hot water gushing in the bathroom. So I took a nice bath and had nice steaming hot coffee prepared by Swathi. Then I started discovering the place around. It was not so cold but the weather was chill and nice to be there during the hot summer away from Bangalore city life. I was so surprised and thrilled to see a lot of variety of plants and Mr.Aiyappa was explaining about the places there. He has his own coffee plantations behind in about 20 acres. Komesh and Bala returned soon and they also started getting ready and Mr.Aiyappa offered us breakfast which Swathi was preparing. We waited for Sai Sharan to wake up. I and Bala were really surprised to see Sai Sharan Still sleeping till 8.30 as he would get by 7.30 maximum everyday here at Bangalore.
In the mean time we met a couple of people who were also from Bangalore. We became happier when we came to meet a person named George who also works for the same company Bala does, Intel. He introduced his wife named Gene who is School Principal here at Bangalore. She informed us that she had read my husbands blog while browsing for Madikere and places of stay and came to know about Mr. Aiyappa’s cottage. What a coincidence it was!
Then Swathi served us with a hot breakfast, a very special dish called Papputtu with nice hot Sambar. It was yummy. But we didn’t take to our fill as we were little afraid of the curvy roads there at Madikere. After breakfast we immediately started to Thala Kaveri, a place where the river Kaveri Originates. It is about 45kms from Moornad. But it took us nearly 1 ½ hours to reach there because of the roads. In between we also stopped in a few places to look at the scenic beauty around. L
ovely place! Then Komesh was excited seeing a tree full of otton seeds bursting out and I was also very happy seeing coffee plantation everywhere as I am a coffee freak by nature. So I collected some coffee beans and few coffee leaves as samples. We reached Thala Kaveri by 11.30. the place was not crowded a
nd we could have a nice dharshan and I took a dip in the holy water and 
prayed well for the welfare of our family.Then we started from there at about 12.30 and reached Madikere by 1.30. It was lunch time and we enquired for good vegetarian Hotel and one of my husband’s friend recommended the place called Shri Krishna Bhavan. It was a small place but the lunch was good. Then I did a little shopping for some spices an
d Coffee powder. Then we proceeded a place called Raja’s Seat. There was toy train and my son started jumping seeing the train. So we all took a round in the train. I had gone to my childhood days where we used to travel at parks. Then we went to see the Raja’s Seat. There was a beautiful gard
en with lovely flowers and from Raja’s Seat we could see the view of the whole of Coorg district. I got so much infatuated seeing the place. We took some photos and left to Dhubare.We reached Dhubare at about 5’O clock in the evening, a place where they train wild elephants. The river Kaveri was flowing and we have cross a small distance in the river to reach the other side to see the elephants. There are boats available. But we decided to walk through the w
ater. I was little frightened to cross as the stones were very slippery but it was a very great experience. Sai Sharan was very happy seeing the water and Bala made him sit in the water and played. He was not ready to come out of the water at all and started jumping every now and then. When we reached the other side it was feeding time for the elephants and there was a female elephant which was tamed and trained already with its small calf. The sight was so exciting. Sai Sharan loves elephants and he wanted to go near them and play with them. But I was little frightened as it were not fully trained. The Mahaout who was with the elephant nam
ed the female as Mythili and the Baby Calf as Mandara. Then we went to see other elephants which were not trained and were very ferocious. So they were kept in huge open cages made of wood. We can see them but they cannot get out. Bala got me a hair of the elephant which is considered as a good thing to have to ward off from evil according to the Indian belief. Then we saw two elephants bathing in the river. What an exciting sight to see them bath and play! Then Bala sent me and Sai Sharan in the boat as I got myself hurt in a sharp stone in the leg. Bala and Komesh walked in the water with quick steps and reached in five minutes. It was already 6.30 and it was getting dark. Then we finally visited a place called Bylakuppe, a few minutes drive from Dhubare. We reached there by 6.45. It was a 
Tibetan Refugee Camp and there was a big Buddhist Monastery and was called as the Golden temple. The tomb of Buddha was so huge and there were beautiful lightings everywhere as we heard that there was some festival going on. There were nearly about 5000 monks doing pooja. The golden Buddha statue was so huge and gave a peace of mind
as we saw him. As it was already late and we had to reach Bangalore that night itself. There were a lot of shops were Tibetan goods were sold. We did a little bit window shopping as our trip was a budget trip. Then we started at about 8’O clock. Komesh started driving the car and we all went of to sleep. And at about 10 in the night after reaching Mandya we had a nice dinner at a roadside Dhabha. The food was cool. Then we started driving back to Bangalore. We reached at about 1’ O clock in the night.Another thing that happened is that we had a small pooja at the temple of our family Goddess near Mettur Dam which is 200kms away from Bangalore on 12th April. This pooja is compulsory for all the gents of the family to attend. The ladies cannot go there. So as we reached Bangalore Bala immediately took Komesh along with him, had a bath and left for the temple pooja. I and Sai Sharan went off to sleep after a very tired travel.
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