Botlappa Cave temple hike in Coorg.

Posted on May 22, 2019

From our homestay Silver Brook Estate we decided to do a short 4 kilometer hike up to Botlappa cave temple. Beautiful but hot walk up through the coffee plantations and the jungle. A narrow winding road for what we thought bikers but no no no……it was for jeeps, cars and rickshaws. Amazing to get a close look at how people live around here. We met kids walking home from school and women who had been grocery shopping. We also met the greenest snake ever. Turned out it was not dangerous at all. So cool to be hiking in the tree tops in all the greenery.

Lots of cute houses in the slopes and in the greenery. Sometimes difficult to spot due to the jungle.

Our little hike turned out to be longer and hotter than expected but it was totally worth every drop of sweat. Don’t miss the next post where I’ll show some picture of the temple itself.

Good shoes and socks are essential when hiking but also water ! See ya’ soon.

Category: Coorg, Nature Tagged: adventure, coffe, coorg, hiking, Homestay, India, Karnataka, landscape, landscape photography, Nature, nature photography, scenery, South India, spices, trekking

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Tikli Bottom, a home away from home.

Posted on October 11, 2016

During the short holiday, Dussehra we thought we would escape home for a day to relax, enjoy some good food and see something else so we booked a night at Tikli Bottom. When checking out I just wished that we had booked another night ! Annie and Martin who built this beautiful home in the 90’s, are just wonderful people who run this home away from home. We met interesting and fascinating people from different corners of the world, walked the garden, swam in the pool, did a short hike in the hills and got to see a photoshoot for GLITZ magazine. Before driving home Annie gave us a guided tour of the village school, called Martin’s school, that they run.