We started bright an early on Saturday morning. About an hour out of Bangalore, we were hungry and came across this little place, adjacent to a farm, that was serving hot breakfast. While we had breakfast, the dog lover that Mr. C is, he made a little friend. This cute little puppy. Mr C even taught him what sit means 🙂
Post breakfast we headed towards Bandipur . The drive was lovely, we even had a long stretch of sunflower farms on either sides of the road.
As soon as we entered the Bandipur forest we spotted elephants, deer and monkeys.
As we got closer to the resort, we saw a signboard showing us 2 ways to get to the resort, we chose the longer route and it showed us some amazing sights. Here is one below:
We were welcomed at Serai, Bandipur with drum beats (both Mr.C and I tried our hand at the drums, I must admit Mr. C seemed a natural at it.) The property is lovely. After a quick talk from the Naturalist about the property we went exploring.
The Naturalist took us around the nature path, he was a bit of a pessimist. Every explanation of his ended with the doom of humanity. He even scared a little kid in the group. The sweety that Mr. C is, he promptly whispers to the little girl “don’t worry, he is bluffing, no animal will come here to eat us.”
After we returned to the property, we even played a game of Table Tennis, Foosball and Carrom. We are both competitive people, so we did not realize that we had spent almost two hours in the games area.
There is an absolutely charming wood cabin that serves as the bar. The bar tender whipped up some potent cocktails, that got us laughing our guts out.
Sunday morning we decided to go on another nature walk. We could not find the naturalist so we opened the gate to the nature walk and started to walk in when we saw a herd of spotted deer. We walked towards them as quietly as we could, however the they spotted us and ran away.
We decided to walk further in, with me leading the way when we suddenly heard someone shouting out to us. It was the naturalist, he was asking us to go back. We felt like to two school kids caught in the wrong place.
The people we are we stepped back, but decided to do the walk using the nature walk path we used last evening. About 15 minutes into the walk this is what we saw:
I promptly asked Mr.C to pose, maybe do a few jumps for a photo. Mr. C points at the nearest bush and says ” There is a large animal in the bush.” I’m so engrossed in taking pictures that disregard this statement and ask him to jump for the picture.
Just as we started to take the picture a wild boar ran past us. I casually go “oh its only a boar!”, Mr. C then calmly reminds me that wild boars charge and they will put you down.
We then quietly decide to walk back 🙂
A healthy breakfast with a view and we were ready to head back.
On our way back we came across more monkeys, deer, elephants, sambar and peacocks. The forest really is therapy!
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