We have been blogged - again!!

Vijay who was with us in February blogged about us - you can check out what he says here

http://vivekvijay.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/bethel-homestay-south-coorg/

Aaaarg we are down!!!

Aaarrrgh our website is down!!

http://www.bethelestate.com is down – apparently domain registration and package deals of Manashosting are two different deals. So I have a three year deal with Manashosting – but I have to renew my site every year!! aaaarg!!

New year review...

Chalk one more review for us folks, Raghavendra and team where with us for the New year weekend - he has given us a review, check it out here...

This is the first review of 2010!! -- Many thanks to Raghavendra, for getting our review queue started this year!!

We've been blogged!!

We've been blogged .. and I found about it 6 months later :-( - that's what happens when you drop off the web!!, Check this out folks, we got some praises.. :-)
http://www.yeeeeee.com/2009/05/30/bethel-home-stay-the-place-to-stay-in-coorg/

It is a small small world..really!

Quite some time ago, when I was traveling from Coorg to Bangalore - I had bike troubles, we managed to make it to Bangalore, but we couldn't go all the way and had to park the bike in the office of Rakesh's friend, Santosh... this was, I think over a year ago...

Fast forward to this week, we had Aman and team coming to Bethel, Aman had found us on the web and had been deputed to co-ordinate the Coorg trip for his team. He collected all the details (links/blogs etc) about us a send it out to his team. His boss goes through the material and one of the photographs is of Rakesh in the homestay! !! (sounds of thunder and lightening here..:-) ) -- and well, his boss turns out to be, no prizes for guessing - Santosh

Phew.. It really is a small tiny itsy bitsy world..

Orchids..

I have often mentioned this - one the best parts of the being in Bethel is meeting different folk - we get to meet all kinds of people, people with different tastes and interests and we have learned a lot from them.

Subho was with us way back in September of 2009. He had come here with his wife Paramita and son Tijil. At Bethel all of us have very decent idea about the flaura and fauna around us - the birds / animals / some of the trees (any tree we don't know, we promptly name it - "Jungle Wood" :-D :-D) - he introduced us to a part of the flora around us that we were completely oblivious about - Orchids!!

Orchids was Subho's passion (Birds were Paramita's) - he was able to open our eyes to the world of orchids. We don't have any particularly rare or exotic ones in our estate. However there was on thing that we learned that made us particularly happy. Orchids are very sophisticated and very fragile - they are so specialized that they need very precise conditions for them to survive and propagate and hence they are a very good indicator of the health of the ecosystem - Bethel has a pretty decent amount of orchid growth, that is something we are be happy about.

Here are some of the photographs taken by Subho at Bethel -

While we were offline...

While our blog was languishing - Bethel was doing very well online and in the real world - we have now the highest number of reviews in just about any site for any homestay in Coorg - 10 in TripAdvisor, 36 in HolidayIQ, 12 in Raahi!!

You can check out our reviews here
Reviews in Trip Advisor
Reviews in HolidayIQ
Reviews in Raahi.com