Instant coffee on the train.
On the bus from Gonikoppal to Virajpet
The Palace Estates. A beautiful homestay on a coffee, pepper and cardamom plantation. We ate and slept like kings.
The view from our room...
The ambassador that brought us to paradise.
Our room.
Gratitude.
I love this balcony
The 120+ year old family home, where the owners of the Palace Estates lived - the 4th generation to stay in this home!
The famous Coorg coffee drying in the sun.
Note the cannonballs lining the path
Coffee and Cannonballs
Sunrise
In my Indian nightie at sunrise...
Nina thinking the trek is long.
Stopping for a boiled egg break
Egg and Anzac biscuits. Delicious.
1700 meters above sea-level: The Peak!
At the top. Thought I was dying a bit.
It was more than a little windy up there.
Happy girls day!
View keeps getting better
Pointsettias actually grow as bushes...who knew!
Traditional Coorg house.
Having a well deserved, if watery beer at the end of the day
We took a 3 hour plantation walk with one of the owners and saw over 60 varieties of plants. Nina listened very attentively.
Banana Flower
Path on the plantation
Coffee plant.
Rice paddy in the distance.
I look 5.
We both look 5.
Writing and thinking
Who knew Indian nighties could be so sexy?
Oh Pinot.
HOT!
I love Nina.
Bouganvallia. Spelled incorrectly, for sure.
Where we ate breakfast every morning.
From the veranda.
Veranada where we ate meals
Auntie.
Leaving the plantation with our new Irish yogii friends.
The train from Mysore back to Chennai. Second Class Sleeper, Baby!
Upper berths.
On train from Mysore. Auntji's were conferring
Fantastic.
