It's been a whirlwind few days and this is my first real chance to sit down and update the blog. Not much time though, so the pictures will have to wait.
From Mysore (btw...it's pronounced My-soor) we got into a car and went back into the mountains into Masinagudi and the Nigril (sp ?) national park. We stayed at a the Jungle Retreat...a nice little secluded place with an outdoor pool with some spectacular views. The Lonely Planet book for India lists it. Pretty rustic place but very cool. We went on a bit of a safari to try to seem some wildlife, but all we really saw were some spotted deer.
Driving around though, we some some wild elephants. A mother with a calf and another female. We were pretty close to the second one and it didn't seem to like it much so it started to charge the jeep to scare us off. It worked ! Don't wear bright clothes in the sunlight when dealing with an elephant.
The next day we hiked up a mountain for 4 hours. At the top was a rural village planting tea and other crops. Really nice scenery...rolling hilltops with fog streaming over the tops of the mountains. You'd think you were somewhere in Europe rather than India.
From there we went into Ooty to stay at the Ratan Tata Army Officers Holiday House...I think that's how it went. I was a little too tired to take pictures of the place and take a few notes, but it was a really classy place...kind of a throwback to the British colonial days.
We got up early the next day and pretty much rode a bus all day back to Kochi (Cochin) and back into the heat and humidity. We had our last dinner as a group and thanked Peter for leading us on a great 2 weeks.
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