After hectic working weeks and weeks I felt very much to take a good break. I took one in the second week of this Dec and headed towards Kodagu along with the better½. We planned to visit Somawarpet first and then to Madikeri; next, to South Kodagu.
Through Chennarayapattana would be the shorter distance. But the decision to go that way was, unfortunately, very bad; because the journey (I drove in my car) till Nelamangala nothing better than nightmare! Beyond that up to Chennarayapattana was tolerable. On asking the way at this place a young gentleman advised to take a roundabout route to Holénaraseepura. All along the drive I thanked him for the roads were really something like in a dream. [good experience in one journey: to start with a nightmare and continue to go in a nice sweet dream!:-) ]
But the drawback with our roads is, however good they are, the signboards. Either you don’t find them at all or they are place so unscientifically that it suits only the days when the automobiles were cruising at 30 kmph! I mean to say, if there comes a junction of crossroads, you’d find the signboard indicating the directions at the junction itself; not about a convenient distance of about a half to one km guiding you, “To go to Arakalagud take road to the right at the junction after a half (or one) km”.
Well, the dream-road didn’t last longer. Nevertheless, we reached Somawarpet and checked in at the house of Sri PS Bopaiah, an eminent advocate.
The weather in Somawarpet was pleasant – neither too cold for the winter of this hilly district; nor too warm.
The people of Kodagu love gardening. Not a square cm of the surrounding of the house is left without a flowering plant! I took a few photos of the garden around the house.
Ye! That’s the house and the flowering plants! Not much of the house you can see, right?
Well there is another beautiful house in Madikeri.
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