Waking up at 7 on a Sunday has never come easily to me ,but I think the very thought of visiting Coorg the most talked about place in South India at least by my nature sucking band of freaks made it a bit easy. Excited on clinching a kick ass deal on a quails I was hell ya disappointed after seeing the Tata Sumo which reminded me of the super car in Mask.
It helped that our driver neither knew English/Hindi nor kannad. I guess he spoke malu which was mandarin to us as well as the locals who would have laughed like crazies if they knew that 4 power packed panjus are heading towards the elusive wetlands of Karnataka with a mallu driver…
Coorg is actually a small district in Karnataka which the met department argues receives the highest rainfall in the world. Don’t know about the official status but ya it rains day in and day out. So if you luv rain catch the next flight to Bangalore and head off and if you don’t stay off.
The landscape is all misty and the greenest of greens. I haven’t seen any landscape so green in India at least. Anyways so the fucked sumo and the crazy driver took just about 8 hours to reach Suntikopa ( four hours behind schedule ) which is were Mrs Muthappa’s estate was .
Suntikopa is a small village and inhabitants are all coffee estate owners and their workers. We drove through coffee estates to reach Mrs Muthappas River side estate; the river obviously was invisible in that darkness. The rooms at Mrs Muthappa's River Side Estate are basic but tastefully done like any south Indian house. And the fact that the river was not a myth and it actually appeared in the morning was an add on.
The landscape was just brilliant and the weather couldn't’t get better…I could have just sat around and had endless cuppas of the brilliant coorgi homegrown coffee and my ultra milds and maybe gone for a walk through the brilliant coffee estates hunting for some snakes and birds ,but my partners in our self confessed and top secret crime had something else in their minds so we ended up at madegiri (spelling mistake for sure)which is the capital of the district and hence a shiti small hill station, the view from “Raja ki Seat"is phenomenal and the very fact that we have some freaking 30 pictures at the same spot is a digital testimony of the same.
The other place I luved was the Abby falls which is about 5 km from the main city and believe me these are actually falls wherein one can commit suicide ,well all four of us thought this is the perfect place to kick life if we come back here again single…… (a lill luv would have had a multiplier effect )
The night was quiet and we had another round of fine corgi cuisine which Mrs. Muthappa who is ex Delhi and really misses the capital served us with someeeeee pride along with small organic bananas. I was about to start another gyan session about how God was an Alien (Read Chariots of God for more information on that) but my travel buddies were not amused and hence I was forced to shut up.
Well I would like to thank our ace photographer Puneet Sewra who can put some real kick ass special effects in your pictures if he loves you, our super model Shivani who we all are so sure should get married to a photographer considering her never ending appetite for getting clicked and the sweetest dictator Ruchi who is well above all this ( wo in sab se upar uth chuki hai) you are all awesome travel buddies and more
Aldo i think i will always remember Mr Muthappa who versed us with his life history, corgi traditions and how corgi women cant get married to outsiders ,his better half for her love and oh food and off course our new driver Fahad who is the wittiest driver in the world……
green dreams , coffee plantations , misty landscape , dark starry nights , compatibility and the reverse of it...perfect chuti personified...
thanks meera for suggesting it ur a sweetheart////
