Road Trip - Chickmangalur

Decided to take a long impending break from work this week. So I headed out to Bangalore to catch up with my good friends and travel companions. Considering that it was a long weekend we were really pushing our luck and calling up all the nearby locations for a room. Luckily we didn't find any and decided to take the advice of Bhavin's friend and try out a homestay kindof place out near Chicmangalur. Boy was it wonderful. A beautiful coffee estate nestled up in a small valley sufficiently far away from the hotspots. It is around 60kms from Chickmangalur but the roads are horrendous so be prepared to cover than in 90mins to 2hrs. Since a picture says a thousand words here are a few.

Chickmangalur - Karnataka - India

Btw none of us carried our cameras so these were from my phone cam. The trip turned out to be around 5k/person for the 2 days. A bit higher since we drove there. But the drive was beautiful especially since its around now that the paddy crops are planted and the variety of lush green all around could have given disney animators goosebumps.

But the highlight of the trip was the amazing food at the resort. Mangy food always rocks! esp the shevai with coconut milk was the best.

Salut

What a wonderful sight for Indian sport. Finally a presence at the Bejing Olympics that we can be proud of

1. Virdhawal Khade - swimming
2. Saina Nehwal - slowly progressing along - defeated the 4th seed today
3. Bajranglal Takhar - 5th place in the Men's rowing
4. Abhinav Bindra - the gold medalist in 10m rifle - god the replay of our anthem playing in Beijing just killed me.
5. All our boxers and wrestlers - good show Biwani boys.

regardless of the results. these are the true heroes. amazing men and women with determination that supersedes any other. please dont even try to put our crappy cricketers in the same sentence/paragraph/page/book/volume. These Olympians are the heroes that we so desperately need.

Salut!