Pure Bliss
Chikmagalur - A weekend of surprise for my better half clubbed with memories lasting a lifetime, thats what both of us would carry with us forever. A very relaxed drive took us just under five hours to reach a place we had never been to before. Nestled in the foot hills of Baba Budan hills, Chikmagalur is a calm, serene town full of scenic surprises, hills, valleys, streams and snow-white coffee blossoms. Situated 251 kms from Bangalore, Chikmagalur is a trekker's delight, with its rugged mountain trails. I kept the surprise of the place we were to stay till our car crept into our refuge at the end of a long and winding road, snaking between forests of tall trees, cloaked in pepper wines, shading the burgeoning bushes of coffee called 'The Serai'. Serai, the Turkish interpretation is ‘a palace of the Sultan’, the Persian version means a comfortable, accommodative place where intrepid travellers and battle-weary soldiers rested and recuperated from their rigours and travels ...