Parting your living room curtain to find an elephant walking in your rose garden, as alien as the experience might sound to a city dweller, it wouldn’t shock so much the Kodavas.An elephant that visited my grandmother’s home a week back encouraged me to write this piece. Summer comes and the sweet smelling fruits adorning the estate lure the creatures of the wild to pay you a visit. Sometimes, the scarcity of water and food in the forests force these animals out.

The magnificent land of Coorg, though very welcoming, is not for the faint -hearted. Many estates situated on the fringes of forests are frequented by snakes, wild rabbits, elephants and other creatures of the wild.

A Closer Look At the Python

Coorg is a must visit for all wild life fanatics. The people of Coorg are well -adapted to these ‘wild friends’ and therefore, know how to handle them. These animals come looking for food and not to harm any one. Well understanding this fact, these animals are always left unharmed, as at dawn, they return to the forest.

Bright lights, and in rare circumstances, fire crackers, are used to keep these animals away from the house. But these creatures are always free to roam the estates unharmed, helping themselves to the fresh fruits and a drink of fresh water from the stream.

This amazing relationship with the wild makes Coorg, even more exquisite. The crystal clear water, the buzzing of the honey bees, the birds flying home and the elephant helping itself to a drink of fresh water from the stream – sounds almost magical doesn’t it? As unreal as it seems, these sights are pretty common in this land.

A Python that Strayed into a Home in Coorg

Adorned with rich wild life, exquisite landscape and lovely weather, Coorg stands out as one among the jewels of India. The farmer stands at his window and smiles, as he watches a tusker feast on the mangoes in his garden. This happens only in Coorg!

Bavna Achayya

Bavna Achayya is a B.Com student at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She is the daughter of a coffee planter from Coorg and is greatly interested in plantations herself. She is passionate about writing and photography and calls the environment her main inspiration.