One of the biggest problems of going to an off beat location is knowing what to expect, inspite of all the reviews and information you can garner of the web..the real deal can be very intimidating. Consider a place like Coorg, the only big town/city is the district capital ‘Madikeri’ ..the rest of the entire district has a handfull of tiny towns and scatterred hamlets in between vast stretches of plantations and completely deserted roads — not a human in sight for miles.. Eight and the whole district literally shuts down, Add that to a very unreliable cell phone network.. and the effect can be a very very scary experience.
In short this was Jiten’s initial experience at Coorg..
On our side, We were very anxiously waiting for them..it had been month since we had any guests …it was the longest break we had ever taken.
Jiten was with us on the December 8th weekend.. he had found us out in HolidayIQ and called us based on the reviews our guests had given us. As usual the moment he started off from Bangalore we got in touch with him and managed to guide them all the way to Coorg, this was very imperative because the driver of the Cab he was using was not familiar with Coorg
Jiten’s arrival was a very odd time..and in his particular case also a very ‘odd’ date.
The day he arrived in Coorg was the day of the Kodava harvest festival, called Huteri.
We had guided the cab driver to from the town of Gonikoppal to T-Shettigeri town where Rakesh was to meet them, we asked the driver
to proceed towards Srimangala and started off from the homestay to receive them… However we got stuck in the Huteri procession…
Meanwhile Jiten already reached the town and was waiting. Huteri is a major festival in Coorg, liquor flows freely and celebrations go on for
a long time, it was not very difficult to notice that most of the folks around were in a very inebirated condition. He immediately asked the driver
to turn around and take the cab back to Gonikoppal, by the time Rakesh reached T-Shettigeri they were well on the way back…we again contacted him, co-ordinated and finally received them
Meanwhile at the homestay the camp fire and dinner was kept ready and we were anxiously waiting, completely unaware of the happenings in Town. By the time they arrived to the homestay the camp fire was almost out.. Jiten and folks, tired from the long journey could just manage to have dinner and crash for the night…
The next day morning we went on a very leisurely trek, followed by a heavy breakfast. Arun took them to the Tea Estate and the famous Iruppu falls. They also went to our stream in the valley below, it is now a gentle brook rather than the fiesty river it becomes during monsoons…
They left very early the next day as they had to reach Bangalore to catch flight.
Jiten and team were our first guests after the renovation break.. we were so anxious to have them, we were sure that any longer and we would
forget how to be hospitable to guests!!
Glad to have you guys, thanks for coming.
, you can find out why, by reading the review here..
