Finally...

...made the Coorg trip...and it was better than what I expected. I had initially planned to go with couple of my office friends, but due to non-availability of reservations, the plan was getting delayed...and as always I was pretty pissed off...but on Thursday one of my friends from B'lore scrapped me that he is plannig a bike trip to coorg along with his bullet gang...I was more than happy to jump in.

I reached b'lore @ 7 am Saturday morning (bus was late due to rain/traffice)...he was waiting with his bike at the stand. We met rest of the gang outside B'lore at CCD...had breakfast and continued with the trip....there were 6 bikes (1 more joined us @ Coorg) and 8 people (2 pillions). One of the riders, Junaid, is a rally driver and knows a lot about bikes...so whenever anybody thought there is any prob. with the bike we would stop, he'll do a quick checkup of the bike...meanwhile the rest of us would be busy in tea/coffee...sutta...stretching etc...in short we had lot of pit stops.

We reached Madekeri in the afternoon (before that had a good lunch ...chicken rolls). From Madekeri to the place we were staying the distance was around 1km...the road was totally screwed...more of an off-roading track...everyone had good fun testing their bikes on the track (esp. our friend...the rally driver).

The place which was booked for us was in the middle of nowhere...loverly house with 2 rooms...double beds...fridge...tata sky. From the house we had a great view of the river below (which we visited next day morning). Inthe evening, the caretake setup the campfire and got some chicken for us...Junaid found a wire somewhere and we cooked (alright he cooked...I guess he the taleneted one) the chicken in the campfire directly...really tastely stuff.

Next morning we left for the river...again awesome place...hardly anybody comes there. After spending about an hour there we started our journey back...it was drizzing a little and the weather was perfect for the bike trip.

On the back we found pretty heavy rain at some places so it took more time than we anticipated and at the end we were having a race against time as I had a bus to catch from b'lore to chennai.

There are lots of places to visit in Coorg near Madekeri but we left as this was more of a bike trip than Coorg trip...but really had a time of my life...Now even I've started thinking about making a bike trip somewhere nearby Chennai (may be Yelagiri, 250 km).

Might be going to Coorg again with friends (that was the initial plan)...it seems there are some falls and trekking which we missed...so I see another trip in very near future.