Classic Kadumane

Wishing my dear ones a very happy New Year, hope New Year brings a lot of joy and happiness to everyone’s life.

Let us welcome 2022 with a virtual tour of one of the classic places situated near Dandeli, as I had promised let me release a blog on one of the best places I have ever experienced to date. The experience is just unmatched that is why I suggested to my lovely group to plan the trip here, this resulted in my second visit in the same year. We enjoyed it a lot and would love to take all of you here through this blog, so get set ready to fly directly to this wonderful place.

The introduction

Let me introduce the place, it is none other than “Kadumane Home Stay” a place that has won the National award twice now you can understand why this is close to my heart. Mr. Narsimha owns this place and is supported by Rohan and other humble and supportive staff. 

The place is beautifully planned to start from the name itself, Kadu means "Forest” and Mane means “Home” so this indicates, “Forest is Home.”

After the name let me talk about the surrounding, densely covered by lush green trees and a variety of meaningful plants, added with growing and promoting honeybees for generating pure honey, the tag line is “No Bee No We.”

Now it is time to talk about the stay, you can opt for cottages or opt for a tent for camping type of feeling. We opted for a cottage stay, neat and clean with all basic requirements fulfilled, trust me you will not miss any five-star stay when you stay with nature. 

Now, at last, let me talk about survival I mean food, basic food but with yummy taste especially herbal tea. No scope of complaint at all, eat as much as you can they serve with an open heart. 

I know after all these you are keen to know about the birding activity which was the end motive, so to meet lovely birds let’s move to the next section.

The Attraction

The place offers varieties in terms of enjoying lakeside birding, forest-type birding, and night trail where you can try your luck with unique nocturnal species.

To begin with, after reaching we tried hands-on lakeside, the evening was dry but still got activity of Chestnut-headed Bee-eater and a glimpse of a couple of sneaks to Amish. The evening was well spent at the lake but expectations for the night trail increased due to the dry evening.

I had briefed the group about the last visit experience so everyone wanted the repeat action, with this hope we started the night trail, Rohan was trying hard to help us with success. Let me tell you what we were looking for, it was none other than “Flying Squirrel.” With help of Rohan we could sight as many as high five, the mission was accomplished with the super sighting of this nocturnal rodent but because of squirrel hiding, we could not experience the gliding. Due to nighttime and far distance, we hardly managed pictures but trust me to see this beauty it was a treat for our eyes, night trail may not offer pictures but it helps you with the unique behavior of the forest. 

We had only one day to explore and we really had a wonderful time including food, stay, feel of the beauty of nature and some lovely creatures. This is how we enjoyed our time at Kadumane with an all-around experience and ended on a highly successful trip, this includes the sighting of Chestnut-bellied Bee-eater, spiderhunter, Flying squirrel, Moth, Spider, Velvet-fronted nuthatch, Minivet, sunbirds Cormorants, Drongo and many more. 

The experience that we had at both OMH and Kadumane was unique and will not be available at any five-start resort. You can get luxury with money but not the feel of nature, so the moral of the story is that you should experience such Jewels of our country and spread awareness about the importance of such places. 

Vocal on Local 

As our PM says be vocal about local we should explore local shopping, a small shop run by Mr. Narsimha offers lovely local varieties such as pure honey, spices like black/white pepper, Cardamom, Kokum, Hing, soap and many more, do visit and buy from these local shops it will give you natural flavor. 

I hope you liked this blog, keep blessing me and keep motivating me to deliver unique stuff, do let me know your feedback on btwildart@gmail.om

Vote of Thanks

Mumbai Travellers and Team – Many thanks Saurabh, Jogi, and Pathamesh for managing the tour so smoothly, you guys are rocking, keep it up.

Co-Travelers  - Amish, Ashwini, Preeti, and Sarang, thanks for yet another blockbuster trip, you guys are awesome.

Kadumane Management – Rohan and the group helped us with a comfortable stay and food to make the journey a success. Many thanks for all the help

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