Chikmagalur

It is been very long that I went for any outing with my family or friends. To my surprise I made a last minute decision to go to Chikmagalur. There are many nearby site seeing places in Chikmagalur but we just wanted a break and take test in Home stay which is located inside a coffee estate.

Chikmagalur is a place in Karnataka located near to Bangalore. I had to drive from Chennai to Bangalore and then we halted a day in Bangalore, the next day early morning we started to Chikmagalur. The best route from Bangalore is NH 75 which takes you to Hassan. The road is good and there were some national highway construction going on after Belluru. So if you are going from Bangalore try this route via Nelamangala, Kunigal, Belluru, Channayapattana, Hassan, Belur then Chikmagalur. 

On the way to Chikmagalur, you have many tourist attractions like Shravanabelagola, Belur and Halebeedu(I’ll put then in my next post). We have tried and covered these places. For morning breakfast you can go to Hotel Mayura near Belluru cross, which has very good food and you get authentic Karnataka food like Dosa, idly vada, pongal etc.

We stayed in a Chikmagalur in a Home stay called Athithi Home stay, I should say this place is very nice and the cook there called Krishna made delicious food. The food was amazing and we had been the whole day enjoying his food and roaming around the coffee estate. The homestay is a old house and renovated with all new amenities, where they kept the tradition alive and it was comfortable too. The place is completely surrounded by coffee plants, trees and great view of mountains.

I am planning to make next visit soon to this place, I didn’t had much time to see the attractions nearby Chikmagalur.

The other places you can visit are

•        Baba Budan Range

•        Dattatreya Peetha

•        Kemmanngundi

•        Kudremukh

•        Gangamoola

•        Ayyanakere

•        Hebbe Falls

•        Kalahatti Falls etc..