Just came back from the trip. What a drive. From Pugmark Restaurant (Beginning of Bandipur limits), the drive just keeps getting better until, of course, the hair pin bends start. There are 36 of them. By the time we made it to Ooty, it was 11 o'clock. So 61/2 hours - not bad.
From Ooty to Destiny Farm Parking lot was interesting .. but the fun began when we boarded the Army truck that would take us to our (final) destination. A 2km drive that put us in 15 minutes of rush for our definition of 'non-existent' road kept changing as we got deeper.
It was all worth it. For the next two days, we rested in the calmness of the that farm. They did a good job of letting us be & they did a good job of the bornfire cum barbeque.
They are yet to get a license to sell booze so I had to make do with the next best thing - beer. I had an earful from wife for she had suggested that we carry our own booze.
Way back is a different route (through Gudlur) . No hair pin bends - about 40 kms longer. But you can go at a much more enjoyable speed and it's very scenic.
After driving so much in green forest the part from Mysore to Bangalore felt like desert ..
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