It's so lovely in South India....since Cochin we journeyed 5 hours up to the mountains to stay at the Tiger reserve, where we had a boat ride around the forest and saw wild elephants, bison and antelopes. Unfortunately didn't see any tigers but I did have a leech on my foot unknown to me. So I was eating breakfast and shook something squishy off my foot that got caught between my sandals. The server runs up and picks it up and throws salt on it....well I left my blood in India I guess. Also we got to ride an ELEPHANT through the forest!!! It was pretty cool....they're skin is so rough and their hair is like wire. Last night we stayed at Coconut Lagoon, a place that has collected traditional buildings from the area that have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair and moved them to one area. They restored them and re-inhabited the spaces. It's very interesting they way they dealt with ventilation and stack effect by creating peaked vents on the apex of the thatched roof and incorporated long overhangs over the "windows". Off to the rice boat, I'll put up more pics soon.
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