Bengaluru to Valparai

 13-Jul-2024

It was an impromptu decision to go on this trip. I had visited Valparai earlier last year but this time we went with the whole family.

Let home at around 7:30am and took the highway towards Kridhnagiri. Initially we wanted to drive all the way up to Valparai but then decided to leave a day early and do a stop over in Coimbatore and then go to Valparai the next day.

09:00am reached the food court near Shoolagiri. Stopped for breakfast and coffee. Left after around 45 minutes.

11:45am on the other end of Salem town, saw a shop that was selling utensils made of Salem Steel, decided to have a look at buy some.

12:45pm After crossing Salem, stopped at the Cafe Coffee Day for a quick coffee and bio break.

Reached Coimbatore around 4:30pm. Checked in and had an early dinner and then retired for the day.

14-Jul-2024

Checked out of the hotel after 10:30am. We had booked Sinnadorai's Rotti Kadai villa in Valparai and they said that since they were booked the previous day, they might not be able to accomodate an early checkin. So we decided to reach around their checkin time which was 1:00pm

The drive to Valparai is magnifiscent, those 40 hair pin turns make it fun to drive. We finally reached Valparai at just after 1:30pm

15-Jul-2024

We spend the day in the villa itself. It is beautiful property in the midst of a tea plantation. The staff takes care of you nicely. The food is pretty good as well.

16-Jul-2024

We checkout of the property around 11:00am. We were straight away going to Bengaluru.

On the way back, stopped at Waterfall Tea Factory and bought some tea.

1:30pm We joined the Bengaluru Chennai highway.

1:55pm We stopped at the cafe coffee day for a quick coffee break, this was near Avinashi.

3:10pm We saw a McDonalds on the highway. Even though we were not interested in eating anything, we just stopped to check it out.

6:15pm We stopped at the food court near Shoolagiri.

8:40pm We arrived in back home.