A brief update from the back of a shop at the end of the world..
After a few days in peaceful and beautiful Kumily (up in the mountains, cool! and relatively quiet) where we contented ourselves with nightly sessions of bat watching (our room was under the flight path of thousands of enormous bats (or flying foxes ?!) leaving their cave every night - a fantastic spectacle and great for Sylv's bat and mouse phobia ;o) ) rather than hoping to see elephants that were sensibly hidden in the woods of the peaceful Periyar reserve... we spied black monkeys too, their little babies hanging on and the neighbours chucking stones when they decided to pee down onto passers by!
After a few days in peaceful and beautiful Kumily (up in the mountains, cool! and relatively quiet) where we contented ourselves with nightly sessions of bat watching (our room was under the flight path of thousands of enormous bats (or flying foxes ?!) leaving their cave every night - a fantastic spectacle and great for Sylv's bat and mouse phobia ;o) ) rather than hoping to see elephants that were sensibly hidden in the woods of the peaceful Periyar reserve... we spied black monkeys too, their little babies hanging on and the neighbours chucking stones when they decided to pee down onto passers by!
(they're not Christmas stocking... just leech socks !!)
From there, down into Tamil Nadu for a tour of the coastal pilgrim sites - via the impressively scaffolded temple in Madurai to Rameshwaran and Adam's Bridge, Tiruchendur (on the same day as 1 million pilgrims... good timing!) and now the southern most point, Kanyakumari... via a lovely bout of dehli belly (la tourista for our french readers) - mutual support, hair holding and fair distribution of access to toilet facilities - we must try not to catch these things at the same time in future...
Anyway, we've made it to Kanyakumari - The bottom end of India and host to MANY tourists from everywhere (and as many 'fancy' shops, pearl necklaces and offers of sunglasses). In a bid for freedom we spent hours queuing to reach a rock not far off the land where we managed to contemplate the enormous sea all the way to antarctica pretty much in peace - and the sunrise this morning was SO spectacular we've stayed another night to see it again tomorrow..... such freedom!
H with nothing from here to the south pole...Pictures of the new (slimmer) Harriet and Sylv to come soon.. and a flim of Sylv giving money to a live elephant money box. The answer to the first quiz has just gone up and we've got some more that we need answers to too - though we're not really sure what the right answer is in some cases!
A few more pictures:
Laundry service
Flowers for the temple
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vivement les photos !!!
bisous
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