Pepper and coffee!! Exotic but spicy! As you leave KushalNagar and climb up the lush green hills to Madikeri all you see is shrubs of coffee and vines of pepper entwined on silver oak trees . It left me wondering if there really was a house yonder. There is just about nothing visible – it is just trees all around– and then out of nowhere you see small pathways winding around the coffee plants. It was summer , but as you turn into the pathways it is as if you left a season behind!! It was cool and pleasant. The tall trees against the clouds looked exotically scenic.I grew jealous of the those lucky ones who waken everyday listening to the swish of the leaves as the tall silver oaks swayed in the wind. As you
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