High Range Club Munnar

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The walks were accompanied by a terrific symphony of bird songs. Because of that, we choose to walk in the mornings around 6:30 - 730 and again near sundown. We wish we had our pal John Spencer here to help us spot and identify the various birds. We met John last year in Guatemala. He runs ablog at www.bajabirder.com John lives in southern Baja Mexico. Check out his camerawork.

... where we saw how tea was made. The assembly line for drying the leaves and converting to the different grades and types of tea (white, green and black) is rather interesting. Unfortunately pictures were not permitted. Then lunch at a hotel restaurant where I had what was a truly tasty and hot dish of Chicken Chettinad, a typical south Indian dish. Dessert was fried apples with vanilla ice cream. All very good.

Next our driver ...

... as there was a 200 rupee entry fee and we were cheapskates and were not prepared to pay this princely sum of less than three pounds a head. Instead we turned around and drove out past some great tea plantations to Lockheart Gap, where we got rained on again, though this time round we were prepared with extra rain gear: a pair of ponchos that flapped loudly in the wind behind us as we rode. It was more of a sprinkle than anything, but the wind was biting the higher up we got, and my ...

... random lame sites. Roi convinced the driver to teach him to drive the tuk-tuk (which I guess is very similar to Vespa). After learning, the next day Roi convinced yet another tuk-tuk driver that he drove one in Israel. He then produced his Israeli license which is in all Hebrew but looks official. Since no one could read it they let him go for a ...

... such beautiful creatures! ROSE: We also stop at a spice farm along the way where see and smell cardoman, nutmeg, curry leaf, pepper, coco beans, cinnamon trees, tumeric root and basil. We were surprised at the inside of a cocoa sheell: the first layer is sweet with the texture of lychee and the centre is bitter, which contains the raw cocoa beans. We also watched how rubber (consistency of glue) is tapped from trees, left to set ...

... friendly with 2 lots of French co-visitors. A family of 4 and a young couple. We've eaten all our meals together and we went sightseeing all day today. They leave tomorrow but others have already checked in so we'll be meeting more people at the cooking class. Observations of the people, okay this is interesting. Firstly, remember how I had mentioned that Alan and I think the women in Rajasthan move as if they ...

... better than nothing. He is also able to deduce that something might be wrong with a villages watersupply if fx 50% of all the patients in a particular village have got diarrhea. Most of the tribals suffer from diarrhea, body aches and different kind of infections. Colds are rather common - as is worms and scabies among schoolchildren. Anyway that should probably give a little insight as to how our everyday life is here :) Enjoy!

... using his tie-dyed sh*wl *s * prop. He even succeeded in convincing me to pr*nce *round *t one point, which is re*lly quite impressive (not my pr*ncing, but his powers of coercion). My initi*l thought w*s th*t he w*s fl*mboy*ntly g*y, but I gr*du*lly c*me to think th*t he w*s just * big f*n of Bollywood movies with *ll their d*nce sequences. I h*ve * priceless video of his rendition of "P*ll p*ll p*ll" th*t I *m going to try to put on this p*ge. He would be so proud, *nd I'm sure ...

... against the gigantic mozzies and fell asleep to the rhythmic hum of the jungle, interrupted occasionally by an elephant's trumpet-call. We woke before dawn and headed into the jungle for an early-morning trek. This was the only way we could hope to see any wildlife, given the typical Indian tourist's habit of shouting and whistling at the slightest hint of movement in the trees. Our guide informed us that tigers and bison posed no real threat to humans but that ...

... Obwohl das nicht ganz stimmt, denn er wird sich erstmal bei KOPEDEG mit Mäusefangen beschäftigen müssen, denn die Mäuse werden dort langsam zu frech. Leider ist er seiner neuen Aufgabe noch nicht ganz gewachsen, denn so ein verwöhnter Hauskater ist solche Basics nicht gewöhnt. Also wird die Futterration reduziert und dann wird der Hunger hoffentlich die nötige Wirkung zeigen. Unsere sonstigen Haustiere bestehen meist aus Fröschen, die durch den Badezimmerausfluß Zutritt finden und dann ...