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Colors Galore – A Short Break at Mugilu, Sakleshpur

There’s nothing like a short break to rejuvenate your senses and take you away from the mundane chores of life. Having O away, we decided to do a short couple getaway – to Mugilu, Sakleshpur – here’s our beautiful experience that I tried to capture…

A couple of weekends ago, while the child was in my mum’s house in Delhi for the summer vacation, me and N decided to take off on a small couple getaway. A break with just the two of us after 5 years. We didn’t really a lot of time since we were both taking a longish break in May for trip to Kufri and Delhi (and for N even beyond to Kaza and Spiti) we decided we will do only a three trip and hence began the search for places around. Being the travel lovers that we are, we had done most of the people that were coming up in searches and recos and then suddenly Cookie mentioned Mugilu,

I saw the website and had a faint recollection that someone else had recoed it to me too and remembered it was Ruth.

 

 

We called and booked the place without further delay. Mugilu is in Sakleshpur which is a small hilly town in the Malnad region. Mugilu is about 263kms from Bangalore and can be reached via the Bangalore-Mangalore Highway (here is the google map).

Most of the roads are great apart from a small stretch where there was some construction going on and it was all dug up. When we drove through, the roads on either side were covered with flaming red flowers, sugarcane vendors in parts too, there was also a small part where the road was completely covered with a canopy of red flowers. What a site it was.

 

Mugilu is a lovely place if you want to do nothing and just chill out,  read some books, take endless walks in the coffee estate exploring new leaves that are growing, the fruits and veggies they grow, some random stuff here and there.

 

 

There also is a pretty big meadow just behing Mugilu where you can take well some more walks, what we did there apart from taking walks was try our hands at some drifting. An open meadow, a car that can catch speed, no traffic its a perfect recipe for drifting 🙂

 

 

Beyond the meadow if you keep walking is a small stream around which we can take some more walks. I am told there is a fort and a church that are close by and should or can be visited but we were a lazy couple in that holiday and did nothing of that sort.

 

 

Mugilu is run by a very sweet couple Sapna & Chandan who are from Bangalore too but moved to Sakleshpur some years ago in search of a quieter life, what they are doing almost seems like the dream I had retiring in peace in the hills while I am young, just that they have taken the plunge while I have not. We spent a lot of time with them talking about just anything that we would fancy from the planters club and how people behave there to how fireflies would take over Mugilu in June (next year I am so going there to check that out) to food and how they get around buying that property.  During our chats it turned out that Chandan & Sapna enjyong offroading too and own a jeep for that and that made the conversations much more interesting 🙂 The food at Mugilu is lovely too, fuss free local cuisine, I loved the akki rotis and chicken curries that I eat there.

 

 

Another thing that is lovely about Mugilu is that it is a pet friendly homestay, while we were there, there actually was a family that had come with a pet of their own dog which was happy being there and making friends with Shunti but couldn’t get along with the other dog they had because of which we couldn’t get around making friends with him.

While you are in Mugilu one thing you should not miss is the sunset, gorgeous colors.

 

 

In short, I recommend Mugilu to everyone who wants to do a short do nothing vacation a short drive away from Bangalore and they tell me its gorgeous while it rains

Reservation and tariff details on their website here and FB page here

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  1. Swati Raman Garg says

    May 27, 2013 at 11:51 pm

    thanks for the photo walk mon… love that pic of u two with that grafitti on the wall…

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  2. Smita says

    May 28, 2013 at 3:31 pm

    The last pic is just out of this world. And I so need a break :’-(

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  3. Aathira says

    May 28, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    Me want to go… a good trip… and some books to read.. thats what I want.

    Reply
  4. Ruth DSouza says

    May 28, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    Mon… at the end of my holiday you make me want to take another break. We can never get enough of Mugilu and have been there three times already. The graffiti on the house is a new addition.. glad you enjoyed the place

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  5. Reema says

    June 19, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    This is one good thing about Bangalore. Lots if short trip places to go.

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Monika is an ex-IT person turned into a food blogger, consultant, home baker and an amateur food photographer. She loves music, writing, food, and travel, but not necessarily in that order ;)

Sin-A-Mon Tales is a canvas for her food memories. Apart from Sin -A- Mon Tales, Monika also writes for many online websites and publications. She's an avid reader and can always be found with a book in her bag, which mostly is as bright as her. She's an obsessive traveler and is always looking for the next food story. Read More…

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