If you can get off to an early start and if the sky is beautiful with the clouds, take the road to Somwarpet. This 42-kilometer, one-and-half hour drive will surely perk you up. This is the coffee heartland of Coorg. You will pass through some of the finest coffee estates you will ever see. Magnificent trees reaching up to the skies, casting much wanted masses of shade to the coffee plants. It's one great spread of continuous foliage very gloriously prepared in an extraordinary operation by Nature. Mingled with cardamom and pepper as well. Big, medium or small, they add to the already beautiful and fabulous landscape all around. Besides being the hub of coffee activity, Somwarpet's other claim to fame is the Basappa Club. Like the cold stonewalls of taverns where sailors and shipmates would gather to make merry, drink, talk and pick up some gossip, the medium and small gentlemen coffee planters, who meet here to unwind frequent the Basappa Club. Except that out here, there are no cold, stonewalls. Instead, one can have a game of Table Tennis or Snooker in this small, but compact club. And there's plenty of gossip to be picked up, as well. Apart from the popular sight seeing places, Kodagu district has a whole lot of Trekking Tracks for those who seek adventure in the wild.
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