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Aagumbe - Varanga Basdi

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After a memorable bike ride to BR Hills , we were planning for some other road trip with family.  This time we planned for a long drive during the long weekend, but the time we started planning for the trip was bit late (in fact it was too late). Some how managed to do the necessary arrangements. Initial plan was to cover Murudeshwara, Gokarna and surrounding places. But considering the distance and time we skipped Gokarna and just stick to Agumbe and Murudeshwara. After lot of enquiry and struggling booked the home stay “ Kaadinamane Home Stay ” near Agumbe (Agumbe Road - Nadpalu village, around 12 Kms from Agumbe).  Since this was our first over night journey with family we have not included too many places in our plan, for Day one it was just limited to explore few places around Agumbe as mentioned in the Kaadinamane Home Stay web portal. Keeping long weekend crowd in mind we started Friday late night from Bengaluru, our destination was around 370 Kms from Benga...

Drive to Coffee Naadu – Chikkamagaluru

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Its been long time we went out for late night drives and we were thinking about one, and even its was bit some time we met up. When we were discussing about the places, thought of driving to Goa or Coorg but finally stick to Chikkamagaluru.  Drive to chikkamagaluru was limited to only long late night drive and to get rid of routine regular work. Our Senior enquired about couple of home stays and finally booked the home stay “Athithi Home Stay”. (Contact Number - +91: 9449586828). Athithi Home Stay is around 240 Kms from Bengaluru and around 34 Kms from Chikkamagaluru. The home stay lies in out-skirts of chikkamagaluru and far away from hectic population & mainly out of polution! We planned this drive during third week of September and all communications & booking activities were taken care by our Senior. We started Friday late night from Bengaluru and stopped many times for long breaks.  We reached chikkamagaluru in early morning and to reach o...