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Spice Plantation and Wildlife Park
... are quite hot and spicy. In the hotels there are multiple meat dishes, almost always in a curry or gravy. The chutneys usually are wildly spicy, mint, ginger and fire based. I had a few pieces of eggplant pickle at one of our home hosted meals. First two bites, nothing, third bite, sneezing, eyes watering, nose running. It has become my standard bearer for spiciness. Today we left the state of Kerataka. We drove through a national park and within the park ...
Keskellä viidakkoa..
Ensimmäinen paikka, josta pääsee langattomasti verkkoon, löytyi etelä-Intian viidakosta. Ajoimme koko eilisen päivän Kochilta ensin junalla, sitten linja-autolla tänne Vayanadiin. Tänään kävimme pienellä kävelyllä viidakon puolella. Iltapäivällä olemme menossa vielä johonkin pieneen ...
At last elephants and forward to Mysore
... facilities. We gather in reception to start our quick tour to see the palace at night, the entire place is lit up, it looks like Harrods but 5 times bigger, the complex is enormous, there are many people in the palace complex all wowing at the lights, then we here beating drums and lo and behold a small parade of six elephants come into view, what a site, this was only a short parade probably to bed them down in the fort before the festivities. ...
Traveling to Periyer sanctuary
... if we are lucky we can see some of the wildlife, but first stop would be lunch, we are now getting to used to this food, we must cut back, well maybe tomorrow. Lunch was good, I had vegetables and roti bread and Geoff had curry and French fries, I ask you, is that right.
Back on the coach again, and after an hour or so we arrive at our destination where we are to have our safari; after what seems an age we jump into our jeeps with our guide and animal ...
Nature trail & visit to the village
... our now -very tough- walk through the village. A young girl came out of her house and demanded to know my name, told me her name and took my picture, our host country is as curious about us as we are of them. Passing through the village we watched a group of workers foraging for mushrooms, these were very small mushrooms so they must have been very special . One of our guides pointed out a very special leaf, it was called the umbrella leaf because it is waterproof and if you ...
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