Saturday, August 9, 2008

Quick Facts about Rottikkal and Western Ghats

1. “Rottikkal”, in Sakleshpur is an unexplored place as yet and hence remains very peace and calm without much human intervention.
2. Sakleshpur is proudly referred as Switzerland of Karnataka (Refer to the attached Bangalore Times article), because of its scenic beauty.
3. Sakleshpur is the Easiest entry point to Western Ghats from Bangalore (4.5 hours drive if you cross Bangalore in an hourJ), as compared to Coorg and Chickamagalore which are other two picturesque beauties of Karnataka.
4. Sakleshpur receives twice Rainfall, as compared to Chickamagalore and coorg and its 20 times more as compared to Bangalore
5. Western Ghats is the one of the Eighth hottest Biodiversity hot-spots in World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ghats
)
6. “Rottikkal” is truly a “No artificial place”, unlike other Resorts which are all manmade.
7. Unlike organizing other trips and outings, here you need not worry for making travel arrangements, picking up necessary things and other. We arrange it for you all and we have all the necessary items like Tents, Rain-coats, sports utilities etc etc
8. Malnad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnad
) (Areas in this region of Western Ghats are popularly called as malnad) has a very rich food culture and it’s the best opportunity to taste the same.
9. We stress on “More Fun and less travel” which is not the case of other package trips by tourist operators where there is “More travel and Less fun and get together”
10. Places like Bangalore are becoming extremely stressful and people are living in a corporate jungle. Weekends are becoming more stressful than weekdays, because of the maddening crowd, Traffic and pollution, because of which one should consider escaping from the corporate world at least in a weekend.
11. Home Stays provide you a cheaper accommodation than compared to manmade Resorts because of the Karnataka governments decision of not to tax them
as they are no harm to nature and ecology.
12. Recent kannada blockbuster of all times " Mungaru male"
(Monsoon rains), was entirely shot in and around Sakleshpur and shimoga(Another District in Karnataka which hosts World famous Jog Falls), which paved the way to boost of tourism in Karnataka.

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