Mudumalai and the Elephant's Bottom

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Masinagudi, Tamil Nādu, India







 





We drove through tea plantations and saw ladies picking tea at the side of the road on our way to our next homestay, which was over the border into Tamil Nadu.



The third homestay was The Wilds at Northern Hay, another homestay on a coffee plantation, but this time on the edge of Mudumalai Forest. We were picked up by jeep as the road was rough!





We sat watching black faced langur monkeys playing in the garden.



We went for a plantation walk in the afternoon, a jeep safari in the early evening and a forest trek in the morning and we saw more deer, peacocks, wild boar, a giant squirrel, a flame-backed woodpecker, malabar and plum-headed paraqueets, a chestnut-headed bee-eater.







... and finally the back of a retreating elephant, but because we were on foot, it would have been dangerous to pursue him and he didn't stop to have his pic taken!

Next stop, Ooty.
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