Two weeks back I was vacationing with family in Coorg. On the way from Bangalore, we stayed for a day in Mysore to see the Grand Mysuru Palace. After that, we stayed for 3 days at the Orange Country Resort in Coorg. The resort was lovely. They organise guided treks inside the nearby forest area to explore nature there.
One of the days we went to Namdroling Monastery, the second largest centre of Tibetan Buddhism in India, next to Dharamsala. There is a divine aura to the temple there and seeing the golden statue of Buddha felt so peaceful.
On our return journey, we went to Chamundi Hills to see the famous Nandi temple there and the Chamundeshwari Temple. We stayed for a day in Mysore and from there visited the historically significant town of Srirangapatna to see Tipu Sultan’s tomb and Daria Daulat Bagh palace (literally ‘Garden of the Wealth’). Our guide in Srirangapatna did an excellent job with the history and introduced Islamic burial traditions and how to identify tombs of Male, Female and the Children.
Orange Country resort, Coorg, KarnatakaLush greenery around the resortHuge ant hillTrekking path inside the resort compoundNaturalist from Orange County resort explaining about the flaura and fauna of the placeElephant ride in a nature park nearbyEverywhere we saw there were lovely flowers of all huesThe resort is situated inside an estate growing various vegetables and fruitsIn our trek, we came across this riverThis place is nicknamed as Switzerland of India
Namdroling Monastery
Namdroling MonasteryPadmasambhaya buddhist vihara(in centre) Buddha Statue in Namdroling MonasteryBehind me are tales from the life of Lord Buddha – Namdroling Monastery
Chamundi Hills
Nandi in Chamundi Hills near MysoreChamundeshwari Temple
Tippu Sultan
Tipu Sultan’s tomb – buried here on 4th May 1799 by Colonel WellesleyPlace where Tipu’s body was found. Colonel Wellesley set a stone tablet to mark the spot.Daria Daulat Bagh palace (literally ‘Garden of the Wealth’) in SrirangapatnaGumbaz, Srirangapatna holding the graves of Tippu Sultan, his father Hyder Ali and his mother Fakr-Un-NisaTombs inside Gumbaz, SrirangapatnaThe above picture is a related one to Tipu Sultan, it was taken by me in 1998 at the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. It shows the swords and weapons which were taken away by the victorious Scottish troops from the place of Tippu Sultan after his fall.
