Rain always brings elation, best experienced with a cup of coffee. This is why a sojourn to the coffee powerhouse of India located on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, Kodagu (or Coorg as the British called it) comes with exhilaration.

It would be right to say that the adventure started as I touched down in Bengaluru during a light drizzle and headed out onto the streets. It was interesting to see how the residents dealt with the city’s transformation from being the Garden City to the Silicon Valley of India with their humorous take on the suffocating roads. An RJ remarked to people calling in from their driver seats, “Take out a deck of card and play a game of patience,” as we headed out of the city.

The fat and lazy cows who go shop-hopping in the city were slowly replaced by hunky, rustic oxen being led to work as the landscape took curvier forms. Slowly, our conversations which were stuck on work and weekend parties also moved to our personal expectations about the destination.

The magnitude of awe was only heightened by the fact that we were headed to the heartland of Karnataka’s estates, which account for 71 per cent of the total coffee production in the country.

The sun hardly peeps out from behind the blackened clouds as we zoom past the famous silk factories of Mysore, the sugarcane fields of Mandya, the Buddhist prayer flags at the Tibetan settlements of Bylakuppe, and puff our way up the hillscapes towards Madikeri, the much-known tourist hotspot in the district....Read more

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