Finally guests!!

Finally after a real long break we had guests again at Bethel this past weekend. We are not as ready as we would have wanted to be ..one tent is still not up and work on one hasn’t even started but then we decided to go ahead.

This weekend we had Jiten and team and Lokpal and team joining us — we had been out because of renovation for so long that we were really really glad to see some new faces at home stay!!

More about them and about the time had with us later… right now I’ll leave with a few more photographs of Bethel 2.0 vs 1.0

The "Sridhara" cottage, the first one to be seen when you enter Bethel

Inside the cottage

Inside the cottage

And now the 1.0 cottage i.e. before the renovation..

The "Sridhara" cottage before renovation

As I mentioned before, these were good, very good, but tiles tend to look better in photographs!!!..That’s just how it is!

The final stretch..

Well we are into the final stretch… this weekend we have Jiten coming and also Lokpal and his team,  so everything that needs to be done..must be done by this Friday without exception.

With these changes we hope Bethel will literally be Bethel 2.0 !!

Here is how Bethel 2.0 is going to look…

The "Chandranna" cottage

Inside the “Chandranna” cottage..

Inside the "Chandranna" cottage

Inside the "Chandranna" cottage

In case you wanted to compare it to the 1.0 version of it..well here it is..

The "Chandranna" cottage version 1.0

All of a sudden the 1.0 version starts to look..well ..bad.. which it really wasn’t — it was one of the most sought after cottages of the excellent view and sit-out options!!

Well what else is new..well.. we have a decent sized kitchen garden, the watch tower ladders now have railings..

Railings leading to the watch tower

What else..Nagarhole still looks spectacular..

Nagarhole, in the evening

The Bisons still abound..

"White socks" Indian Bison

and the usual sights…

Fevicol ka jod...:-)

And some not so usual ones..

Road making for Bethel@Madikeri

Well its happening.. Work for Bethel at Madikeri has started!! The road laying is done.. and very soon we will have Bethel running at two locations..Covering both North and South of Coorg!