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Ooty 4
... or is it baseball - basketball - or perhaps football? Anyway, all eyes of the nation were glued to the TV - and when India defeated Sri Lanka, the country erupted in euphoria. It's nice to be in a country when it wins a world championship - in anything.
In the evening I took another bus home because it had rained quite a bit and flooded the underpass on the road to my guest house. Had I not taken the bus I would have had to ...
Tea and Free safari
... going to in my opinion. We wound down the mountain side on our way out (after I'd got us lost for about 2 hours) and found ourselves in a safari park. The road back up towards Mysore is through national park which costs 20p to enter and we saw peacocks, eagles, monkeys, wild boar, herds of spotted deer and wild elephants (as well as a working huge tusker). We were warned off jumping in a river there by ...
You be-'ooty'!
... wouldn't be any descriptions in English, but throughout the day we got to know some of the families (who were on holiday from other parts of India) and we felt as though we were experiencing the country as the Indians do!
We spent the morning visiting various sights of Hindi Classics. The guide would speak for ages and in detail about certain sights, with interested responses from the Indians- we began to get excited- what were these ...
Emeralde, Porthimund and Parson's Valley
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It was a beautiful day with pretty yellow paper daisies sticking their heads up to the azure skies.
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Wild ride through wild terrain
... extinction or driven out.
Back to the Monarch for dinner and a vigorous bout of ping pong in the "recreation area", which included indoor badminton. We settled in for a night's rest, only to be interrupted at 0200 by the onslaught of bedbugs. We had to roust the night staff from their slumber in the lobby and move to a different bed. Barb and I have had a previous experience with these bloodsuckers and ...