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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.

... beautiful wild flowers, and more tahr. But no other animals. We did, however, encounter many young Keralans and they were quite friendly and eager to practice a little English. As we left the park we sampled some local delights: "Home-Made Chocolate" aka fudge, roasted corn with marsala spices and spiced roasted cashews. While the corn could have been sweeter, the fudge and cashews were very good.

From the park we drove to a tea ...

... a small team we started @ 2.pm with one guide (Guide is important as we know it from Mudumalai's trip) and headed towards Valparai by driving remaining 12 hairpin bends, the roads and the nature was absolutely no words to explain.

We have come across more than 40 hairpin bends but few are extra large hairpins so the govt didn’t consider those bends in count. The initial plan is to visit Balaji Temple but it was dropped. We reached Valparai @ 4pm its just a small ...

... et on appelle Jospeh qui nous envoie un gars nous reparer le cable. (80Rps) En tout, nous avons perdu 2 bonnes heures, et au lieu de partir aux aurores, nous sommes sur la route a 10-11h, avec une circulation de dingue. Ca kloxonne, ca va dans tous les sens, bus, rick-shaws, motos, voitures, velos et pietons, chacun voulant passer en 1er. Nous nous en sortons pas trop mal et reussissons a faire environ 40 bornes et faisons une halte dans un bled. Au moment de ...

... it was like Cheech and Chong in there. Ravi didn't waste any time in getting to know us by asking all the usual personal questions then some even more personal question that i won't go into here but that involved the words 'vegetables', 'plastic man's thing (dildo)', 'lady man (transvestite)' and the phrase 'eat bush' (work it out yourself) complete with hand gestures and charade game symbols. Ravi, who is married and a devoted Hindu who is currently in a one ...

... charming about this area. Reluctantly, we commenced our return journey. On the way we passed tea workers sorting through their days pickings. One of the ladies kindly let us have a good look at her tea cutting kit - a large pair of scissors fitted with a net bag on one of the blades. A bit like a hand held lawn cutter with its own collection bag. Most of the tea we drink is collected with these cutters. Only the very best leaf tea is hand picked. A light rain near the ...

... to see waterfall, which was nice. Some Indians were actually swimming there, but there was one more waterfall, bit higher and no one except us went there. Afterwards we went through sandalwood forest. Sugar cane plantation and "factory" followed (that was interesting). Then guide left us roaming through tea plantations and on our way back we managed to glimpse over Sunday football match between ...

... safari with jeep/trekking and boat trip the next morning at 5am! Our jeep was exactly like you would think it would be if you were in africa-open a the back with bars. Our driver was like an Indian Steve Irwin suddenly jumping out of the jeep with the sight of a mongoose - class stuff! We would free wheel down the hills (to get rid of the sound of the engine) and try to carefully look through the different types of forest canopy. A few black Nigirli langur ...

... were waterfalls down all the steps and hills around our room. There was another power cut so we were sitting around in candlelight all evening, we even had to go and beg the kitchen to cook us some dinner and I think they actually gave us theirs, oops! Kodai was the best imaginable break from all the cities we'd been to and we didn't really want to leave. Hopefully we'll find more places for hiking in Australia and New Zeland.

... Hauptgottesdienst sowie Bibelstunden und Konfirmandenunterricht. Außerdem gibt es Montags in der Middleschool und Mittwochs in der Highschool das "Religious Assembly" - und diese Liste ist noch lange nicht komplett. Jedenfalls genügend Spielraum für einen jungen Pastor sich einzugeben und Erfahrungen zu sammeln. So, doch eigentlich wollte ich Euch gar nicht soviel über meine diversen beruflichen Tätigkeiten schreiben, sondern Euch vielmehr auf die ein oder andere Erlebnisreise durch S ...