Today we are in Thekkaddy, the hill station below Periyar National Tiger Reserve.
Yesterday we visited a spice garden featured in a BBC documentary called' 80 BEST GARDENS IN THE WORLD'. We tried fresh cardamon- amazing.
The locals are very friendly.
Typical food up here is quite spicy, mainly vegetarian with lots of coconut milk, really good.
This morning we left at 6.30 am for a three hour trek in the tiger reserve. Sadly we did't see any tigers or elephants but many other great things like monkeys and fresh turmeric!
We then went on a elephant ride which was fun but a bit bumpy- our elephant was Maria!
On the way up to Thekkady yesterday we stopped at the tea planatations- did you know green, black and white tea all come from the same plant?
Tommorrow we drive back down 6 hours to the beach resort of Varkala where we then have 2 days of beach related events and seafood.
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Sound great! Wish we could be there! Enjoy!
ReplyDeletekristy and derek