1) The document outlines a 1 month road trip route taken across southern India, including stops in cities like Mumbai, Mangalore, Madikeri, Mysore, Ooty, Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Kochi, and Bangalore. 2) The route included visiting cultural sites like the Namdroling Golden Temple in Bylakuppe, Venugopalswamy Temple in Mysore, hiking in Gomatgiri hills, and wildlife reserves like Nagarhole. 3) Photos from the trip show rural landscapes like coffee estates and paddy harvests, temples, lakes, zoos and forts visited along the route.

1. JAN 2013 – 1 MONTH ON THE ROAD
#MAPROUTE

2. THE ROUTE…..

3. Via
Mangalore Bylakuppe
Mumbai bus Madikeri Nisargdham, Kushalnagar
Coimbatore
Mysore (Isha Yoga Center)
(with Isha Yatra)
Gomatgiri Ooty, Botanical Garden
Venugopalswamy Temple Sims Park Coonoor
Chamundi Hills
Zoo, Palace Kanyakumari
Kukurahalli Kere
Halebeedu/Belur Bangalore
Shravan Belagola
B.R. Hills
Nanjangoud kochi
Iruppu Falls, Rameshwara
Nagerhole Jungle Reserve Fort Kochi
Kochi Biennale 2013! Mumbai

4. THE PHOTOS…..
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5. Coffee Estate Home Stay in Madikeri, Coorg!

6. Coffee Estate Home Stay in Madikeri, Coorg!

7. Paddy Harvest

8. Awesome nature and rural life around the place! I was expecting the place to be
quite touristy because its quite well known but somehow did not find it to be
so! Clean air, simple lifestyles, bad mobile connectivity, animals and green stuff
abound! Large part of credit would have to go to the awesome home stay! 
Read more about my madikeri experience here!

9. The awesome and exotic Namdroling Golden Temple at Bylakuppe Tibetan
Village! I walked about 12 kms to this temple from the far gates of
Bylakuppe, it was an awesome walk with elderly Tibetan folks smiling at me
and greeting me! One of my first blogs about this trip was of this walk!

11. Near Bylakuppe the Nisargdham at
Kushalnagar! It’s a quaint, beautiful
place. A picturesque Kaveri river
spot, boating, deer enclosement,
machaans, jungle-type trails and
other interesting stuff!

12. Every Sunday Mysore palace lighting. Free entry!

13. Kukurahalli Lake, Mysore! Keep some time when you visit to do a full round
around the lake – about 3 km but well worth it!

14. The super awesome Venugopalswamy Temple
behind KRS Dam, Brindavan Gardens Mysore!

15. Mysore Zoo!

16. Gomatgiri, outskirts of Mysore! Quite
awesome, ideally go with few people and
meditate there for a while!

17. Matluram @ Irrupu Falls, Rameshwara Temple, Coorg!

18. Nagarhole Jungle Reserve

20. Halebeedu / Belur

21. Misc places…

22. Coonoor
Super crowded and congested looking? Yea! But it grew on me. Can’t
explain it but it has a charm… those meandering hill roads, local buses,
coniferous trees, small town ambience, green hill views…..

23. Awesome Kanyakumari with the strong,
strong winds! No wonder the world’s largest
windfarm is located at Nagercoil in Tamil
Nadu!
Also it made me happy to know that a Tamil
poet (Thiruvallivur) had been commemorated
like this! It creates a very different ambience to
have an artist immortalized like this compared
to politicians, fighters or even god men!

24. At the Vivekananda rock! The wind was literally battering my head!
Never experienced something like this!!

25. The Kochi Muziris Biennale 2012! Glad I could see even half a
day of it! I managed to blog about it on the day it finally got
over!! 

26. That’s All Folks…. Until next time! ;)
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