Postcards from abroad
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
We drove from the Chettinad towards the Palani Hills in the west of Tamil Nadu on the border with Kerala, to stay in our remote ridgetop accommodation. The journey was full of interest as it always is in India - today pilgrims and a very special ceremony invite. Many, many pilgrims were heading in the… Continue reading Ear-piercing ceremony and pilgrims