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The Hills Resort, Sakleshpur – Stay Simple

The fact that we are road junkies is not news to the regular reader of the blog. While any kind of travel gives me kicks, road is where I belong and come to life. Every couple of months at best we all have this urge to take the car out and get going, sometimes even aimlessly. My travelogue of Sakleshpur and the lovely place we stayed in-

Our last road trip was to The Hills Resort, Sakleshpur. Sakleshpur is about 5 hours or so drive from Bangalore, we left a little after 7 am and with a breakfast break made it to Hills around noon. Sakleshpur is about 5 hours or so drive from Bangalore, we left a little after 7 am and with a breakfast break made it to the Hills around noon.

Sakleshpur Drive

 

(map here)

 

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Our last road trip was to  The Hills Resort, Sakleshpur. Sakleshpur is about 5 hours or so drive from Bangalore, we left a little after 7 am and with a breakfast break made it to Hills around noon.

Thatte Idli
Drive en route Hills Resort Sakleshpur
who doesn’t like driving on these roads you tell me <3

 

The Hills is located much farther away from the Sakleshpur town and is remote with nothing near it for kilometres, just the way we prefer it. There is no cell phone signal let alone the internet and that helps one completely wind down

 

hills resort sakleshpur

 

It’s strange how life has come a full circle, from the point when the cell phones were cool and wanted to now when people (atleast us) want to get away from them to be able to really take a break. Shows much it has intruding into our lives and how we need a forced break from them to be able to enjoy other things in life like music and books.

 

room at hills resort sakleshpur
Constant part of three days we spent there

 

The resort has two kinds of accommodation, the wooden cottages and the Swiss tented cottages. We decided to stay in the tented accommodation since the child these days is obsessed with anything that has the name “tent” in it

 

hills resort cottage
Our cottage from outside
The Hills Resort, Sakleshpur
The inside of the cottage
Hills Resort, Sakleshpur
The wooden cottages, this particular one is under repair with the steps but they looked gorgeous and dreamy

 

We generally took it is easy for the next two, we are a laid back family when it comes to holidays and rarely do we go for “sight-seeing”. Numerous walks, some treks, little things on the way, that is what we enjoy the most. During this visit we went to an hour long trek which started from a 250 year old temple. The temple was recently renovated but it’s so remote and peaceful that I was surprised to find such an old temple there. Usually things like this make it to some list, one step in the temple and you still felt the calm may be because there were hardly people around

 

This was taken from the top, u can see the temple if you look

 

They also have cycles and stuff which you can borrow and take random rides on the roads close by. During one such ride we found an amusing ice cream cart. They make and package these ice creams locally and then sell it using these mobile vans, I think they have caught the nerve bang on especially for summer.

 

The ice creams reminded me of the childhood local ice creams. Comforting in a weird way

And what good is a vacation if we don’t talk about food I ask 🙂 Though honestly the food wasn’t the high point or the focal point of this vacation, I had the yummiest aloo bondas with slight drizzle on one of the evenings and a fabulous fish curry on another

breakfast for kings
Cat in the dining area. O found a cat and many dogs to make friends with

 

O also found himself a football ground (originally estate’s coffee drying area I think)

 

all in all we had a fantastic short break from the hustle bustle of the city and considering it is just 5 hours drive, I think it is a no brainer of a holiday from Bangalore

These were flowering galore all through the property. My favorite sight in the morning

 

You can book The Hills here, the rooms are in the range of 5000/day (for the wooden hut) and 7000/day (for the Swiss cottage) for a couple and includes all meals and accommodation.

PS: Pictures by iphone, should I send them for the clicked using iphone 6 campaign 😉

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  1. Subhasmita says

    June 23, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    Thanks Monika for the detailed post. I had seen regarding this Hill resort when you posted on FB . Such a beautiful place. Whenever I plan for our next vacation would definitely keep this as an option.

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  2. sinamontales says

    June 24, 2016 at 6:02 am

    You are welcome Subhasmita. It was a lovely break

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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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