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Town in Karnataka, India
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Hunsur is a town of 51,000 people (2011) in Mysore district. Hunsur is well known for the timber trade, especially teak. Another important trade activity is tobacco growing and tobacco auctions. There is a tobacco board in Kattemalalavadi which is 5 km from the city. Consolidated Coffee Curing Works employs many people in coffee bean processing. This location is also a growing market for sheep farming. Farmland surrounds the town.
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Tibetan refugee settlement that cultivates mainly maize, banana and mango on about 2,000 acres of land. The village is called Rabgayling settlement and about 2,320 Tibetans live here. They have a school with 260 children. There are three Tibetan monasteries in the village.
Pleasant hill temple campus with comfortable seats to relax.
Comfortable seats around a playground adjacent to the town hall.
Nagarahole National Park
Nagarhole is a Kannada word meaning "snake river" - which flows through the park. The park and animal life is part of the country's first "bio-sphere reserve". The Forest Department conducts tours along well-defined routes for tourists, in the early mornings and evenings. One can surely see the bison, elephant, spotted deer, sambhar, barking deer, wild boar, mongoose, peakcock, jungle fowl and many other birds and animals. Lucky ones get the chance of seeing panther or tiger. Special pooja is offered to the Goddess Honnamma on the Gowri festival every year. Thousands of devotees come to this sacred place on this day and offers pooja to the Goddess Honnamma followed by climbing the cliff. 'Bagina' which consists of sacred belongings of the Goddess is left in the lake. A temple has been built to improve the place and offer better facilities to the devotees.
Travelling in a slow bus to Krishnarajanagara can show you green villages like Naganahalli, Kattemalawadi, Gowdagere and Manuganahally. This is a 30-minute trip through paddy fields.
Take the road on the right of the Thithimathi checkpost. Drive by forest temples and small villages. There are few educational institutions in this route like Yatman College and Pushpa Convent school before you finally reach the little town of Piriyapatna.
You can enjoy the village fair in Kattemalawadi where old-style Karnataka village life becomes vibrant in the evenings.
Start from Devi Prasad vegetarian restaurant near the old bridge on B.M.Road. Take the second road opposite the restaurant which is directly opposite to Asian Paints showroom. Walk one kilometer through a village footpath and you finally reach a Hindu cemetery followed by a Muslim cemetery. The hanging bridge begins from here. The bridge is 82 meters long and only pedestrians are allowed to use it. After crossing the bridge, you have to walk another one kilometer to reach the KSRTC Bus Station.
You can also access the bridge from the city side by taking the road going down from the Transformer Junction on Brahmin Street near the Town Police Station.
Two big dining halls with good ambience. Located in a scenic place near the old bridge.
Kerala-style parottas, biriyani, fish fry and chicken dishes.
Kerala style parottas, chicken dishes and biriyani.
Vegetarian food items like Masala Dosai, Rice Bath and Idlis. Very crowded place with tasty food at low rates.
Kerala style parottas, chicken dishes and biriyani.
Kerala style parottas, biriyani, and meat items.
For coffee and cakes.
Widely considered to make the best biriyani and beef dishes in the city.
Spicy beef biriyani ₹60.
Very spacious restaurant with murals on the walls. Reasonable rates. They charge ₹60 for full lunch and ₹40 for mini-meals. They give excellent tea.
Good ambience with polished wooden chairs. Private family section. North Indian Lunch ₹150 and also South Indian Lunch ₹90.
Known for good dosa for ₹35. Parottas are also available.
On the T.Junction on Brahmin Street.
Very near the Town Hall park.
Very good ambience and posh seating.
Mushroom Pizza ₹160
Special Faloodha. ₹130.
Good rooms with bath and balcony.
Vegetarian restaurant attached.
Hunsur is reputed for wooden products and handicraft items made of wood.
Buses are the only available mode of public transportation in Hunsur. Taxis can be hired at reasonable rates. The road within Nagarhole National Park until 15 km outside Hunsur is in bad shape.
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