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To direct maintain the nervus to move solo – mass myself a render ticket – was non a pathway I’d planned on embarking upon. It simply happened. Like most beautiful things. My foremost solo vacation was to a quaint trivial beach inwards Karnataka inwards the final quarter of 2012. Since together with then non alone direct maintain my ain perspectives undergone a consummate overhaul but thus direct maintain those of the people roughly me – together with I hateful this inwards the best means possible.
Well, for the most role traveling past times yourself didn’t attract whatsoever brownie points – the bravado was totally discounted for. Instead the endless listing of annoying questions never seemed to fade away. It was every bit a response to all those initial reactions that I penned my foremost solo travel-related blogpost. That I didn’t halt traveling nor writing after that seems to direct maintain made the form of departure that I felt was required.
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| Photo Credit: Prashanth H J. |
So this December, inwards choosing to move to Coorg I made however some other decision: to arrive at Coorg via Bangalore. I got told past times a few (the ones who know routes meliorate than most) that I should’ve instead travelled via Mangalore every bit the route is shorter. I had to add together hither that no ane asked me why I chose the route I did – but together with then ane time to a greater extent than advice is ever costless thus I didn’t actually heed whatsoever of it. Now when I had foremost started making enquires for accommodation I was told past times the locals that the route via Mangalore was ridden with potholes together with non a convenient ane at all. Also since I was anyway headed to Goa from Coorg I would go taking the Mangalore route later on – thus I’d direct maintain completed my Bangalore-Coorg-Mangalore roadtrip too. And isn’t travelling nearly the journeying together with non the destination?
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My foremost morning time at my homestay I woke upwards to a beautiful jingle involving birds of different shapes together with colours tweeting amongst Taio Cruz together with Mika Singh revving it on a thespian nearby. But the jingles aside, it was alone right away that I was starting fourth dimension to realize how beautifully pose out this homestay was; bang inwards the middle of a spice together with java plantation. Greenery everywhere, I was reminded on the roadtrip from Bangalore the previous solar daytime with farmlands together with kokosnoot trees alternating the landscape. The morning time was to a greater extent than nippy than commons courtesy the air current gods whooshing through the night. Sitting at the porch with my morning’s loving cup of tea I was dazzled past times the fluttering butterflies.
After breakfast that morning time I took a rickshaw ride to the marketplace. I was dorsum inside cellular network coverage. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 longish telephone telephone phone made habitation non without a listing of locally available produces to go brought dorsum took place, together with I spent the side past times side iii strange hours aimlessly walking through the marketplace, fifty-fifty paced – watching, observing, soaking in. Quite happy to non direct maintain anyone bother or inquiry me – together with dissimilar other ‘touristy’ places no ane hither tugged or pulled at my sleeve to come upwards run into something or buy something else. I walked into a duo of local shops alone to go warmly greeted past times shop-owners who were to a greater extent than than pleased to display their wares, response questions, demonstrate a sample or 2 together with brand recommendations on what made meliorate feel for me to purchase. Here I realized that linguistic communication was seldom ever a barrier.
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| A plantation |
Lunch was had at a local hotel on my means dorsum to my room, I realized how something every bit unproblematic every bit this walk tin instruct y'all how to trust your inner orbit together with trust yourself (because y'all realize that y'all aren’t geographically challenged fifty-fifty inwards an unknown trivial town). You larn to go assertive together with pleasant. And most importantly non-city bred folk seldom acquire bothered past times a ‘solo woman someone traveller’ – I’ve seen to a greater extent than eyebrows existence raised (and recede into hairlines) past times urban educated people!
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Speaking of which, travelling past times myself has taught me that it’s okay to acquire used to people existence uncomfortable. But for the most role of it, people lookout out for y'all – whether you’re a lone manly someone or woman someone or a grouping of people traveling to anywhere for the foremost fourth dimension – people to a greater extent than oftentimes than non lookout out for y'all together with assist y'all inwards whatsoever capacity they can. So, I had conductors directing me to empty seats (when they realized that my pocketbook lone occupies to a greater extent than infinite than I do!), my homestay host non alone picked but also dropped me dorsum to the Coorg bus-stand the solar daytime I left (I had to go out at seven AM which is early on plenty if non likewise early, together with he didn’t accuse me extra). I also learnt that rickshaw drivers are pleasant folks. Once I was off the bus, I was provided directions to the rickshaw stand upwards past times rickshaw drivers themselves who’d alone simply dropped passengers off at the jitney stop. Me thinks they could’ve easily direct maintain fleeced me past times offering to direct maintain me to my destination!
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Discover the 'untravelled' side of Coorg at a family-run organic farm inwards a traditional Coorgi hamlet with . Find out to a greater extent than nearly the experience here.
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Discover the 'untravelled' side of Coorg at a family-run organic farm inwards a traditional Coorgi hamlet with . Find out to a greater extent than nearly the experience here.
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