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Mandalpatti

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Plan for the next day of our trip was to visit Mandalpatti. Before that we decided to wake up early and go for a walk again. We woke up early and got ready the photo session. We got few good photos of the sunrise. Enjoyed the sun rise and the morning walk at coffee estate.  It was awesome weather outside the room. Me, Guru and Amruth went out for the photo shoot. We finished our breakfast at home stay and decided to take a group photo near the home stay before vacating.  Special guest Sanvi at front, Guru, Ullas & Chaitra at front row from left, Back row from left: Sowmya, Amruth, Kishore, Kavya & Smitha. For the second day we had planned to visit Mandalpatti and it’s difficult to reach the peak of Mandalpatti with our vehicle, we needed 4X4 Jeep to reach Mandalpatti Peak. We took help of the home stay owner to book a jeep and he arranged a jeep for us. Our plan was to leave our place at 9.00 a.m. so that we can reach our destination by 10.00 a.m. The Jeep was wai...

Mallalli Falls

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This was the first trip in the year 2014 and also first trip with this group. Planning for this trip began in the month of November 2013. But we had decided to execute this plan in January. In fact this was the 5th time  I had planned to visit Mallalli falls, Previous 4 times i could not  make it, due to one or the other reason it got cancelled.  Finally I have executed this trip as per the plan.   Madikeri is not too far from Bangalore. We just need about 5 hours to reach our destination. We had decided to leave Bangalore late night and spend some time at the Cafe Coffee Day on the way, so that even the driver could take some rest and we could reach Madikeri early morning as per our plan. We hired a TT for this trip and we were a total of 9 for this trip including our special guest Sanvi. First pickup point was at Jayadeva where Ullas, Sowmya & Chaitra had to be picked and then they headed towards bank colony where myself an...