Monday, January 4, 2010

Tea plantations and more!

Today we went on an exhausting tour of the area, complete with seeing miles and miles of tea plantations, the sugar cane plantations, then sandalwood forests (with lemongrass all over, though I'm not sure it was there on purpose).

Also, a hike through a nature sanctuary where we saw lots of, er, "evidence" of wild elephants, as well as some sort of non-monkey tree mammal, and tons of trees and cactuses. Oh! And it was all near the highest mountain in southern India.

Pret-ty neat.

This was from the hike:


These are all tea bushes:


What an ugly place, huh?

2 comments:

Vishaka said...

Wow, even with those pictures that make me feel I'm watching one of those old timey slides, the place looks awesome! Too bad you're off to Kochi tomorrow!

Unknown said...

Beautiful! Keep it up. Looking forward to the "real" pictures.