Postcards from abroad
We left our quiet forest in the jeep, passing tea and coffee plantations along the unmade road and joined our new driver Abdul to be whisked down to the Keralan coast while everybody else appeared to be coming up the mountain’s nine hairpin bends. Turns out that it’s not only Sunday but a bit of… Continue reading Calicut’s mosques and beach – and farewell!
We assembled at 6.45 am to don our leech socks (not very attractive) and join another couple and our young guide to go bird-watching. It was very misty with no sun, and we should have realised that it might have been better to leave it for a day. Instead, off we embarked on a treacherous… Continue reading Birds, butterflies and langurs
We promised you more nature - and more nature you shall have. We are staying in Wayanad, part of the Nilgiri biosphere, where the landscape is deep forest on the steep slopes of the hills and mountains. The property is surrounded with electric fencing to deter the wild elephants (we heard one trumpeting this morning… Continue reading Giant squirrels, pretty tree frogs and thumping langurs
We left our remote hilltop in the Palani Hills to drive to Coimbatore, a city unlike any other we’ve been to in India: all the roads are good, even the flyover is complete, flowers planted and a prosperous air about the whole place. We were visiting our friend Rajini whose great grandfather helped to establish… Continue reading Rajini’s farm and watching out for elephants
After the wilds of the Palani Hills, we are back in wifi-land in Coimbatore, a very busy Tamil Nadu city second only to Chennai, and so our loyal readers will be wondering what we were up to. We drove up the side of a very, very sheer-sided hill (felt more like a mountain to me)… Continue reading Nature at Isla’s Ridge