Coorg for a Trip!

During the recent long weekend, we made a trip to Coorg, The Scotland of India for 3 days. Here are the pics along with brief information of the places we have covered these 3 days.

On Day1:

We set out of Mysore for Coorg, on the way, we had a decent breakfast at Cafe Coorg and hit the place called Bylakuppe, just few kilometres before Kushalnagar, where these Buddhist Monasteries are located. More info at Wiki

Bylakuppe Golden Temple:

Entrance to The Golden Temple

Golden Temple

Lord Buddha along with Guru Padma Sambhava and Budha Amitayus

Signage describing the idols.

This temple has a very big and wide hall filled with silence and the walls are decorated with beautiful paintings of 25 disciples of Buddha who attained high realizations through the practice of the Dzogchen Teachings, along with the paintings depicting the life story of Lord Buddha and 12 teachers of Dzogchen. We spent considerable time in the premises and inside the temple.Since this is very well known, it'll be crowded generally, but there's one more temple just few kilometres away from this temple, nobody was there, may be due to heavy Honey Bee Hives in the premises. But it was worth visiting this temple amidst the honey bees flying around.

Then we hit the Harangi Reservoir which is roughly 9kms away from Kushalnagar. Though  the police didn't allow us to the top of the reservoir due to some riots related to Kaveri water issues, it was scenic as the water is flowing from the gates as the waves hit them.

Forgot to mention, on the way to this dam, i have a spotted a  beautiful flower garden just infront of a small house with tiny Ganesha idol in the middle of it. They have as many as 30+ different variety of flowers. Have taken some of my best flower shots there. Thanks to the lil kid and his family for helping me with my shoot :)

Then we broke for lunch as we enter madikeri at Orange Lagoon, food was okay but the ambience is good in the middle of garden and a stream near by.  After the moderate lunch we went to Nisargadhama, which is around 2 kms from this hotel. 

We spent about an hour in exploring this beautiful island formed by river Kevri. This has elephant ride and deer park in it. More info at Wiki.After this we directly went to Dubare Elephant camp, where the elephants were trained for Mysore Dassera festival and more Info There's a white water rafting which covers about 7kms in Kaveri waters for about 90 minutes.

I think i should break here and will come back with a diff post covering day2 and day3 places! Stay tuned....