Jenneli and I had been planning on seeing the jungle of southern India and now we finally were going to see it! We took an 8 hour bus ride to the Periyar wildlife sanctuary and upon arriving noticed how much cooler it is. 72f! The cool is much appreciated even if it’s accompanied by large amounts of rain. We took a boat ride around the nearby reservoir and got to see a giant squirrel and a bunch of monkeys. No tigers but apparently few ever do.
After Periyar we took another bus to Munnar which catches me up at least to the town I’m currently in. I had been hoping to catch up with the blog on the bus but because of all the rain it’s been a bit dangerous to use the laptop, plus the bus is a bit bumpy to say the least. In fact the bus is a bit like a roller coaster on the high mountain roads around here. Jenneli and I have had to hold our breath a few times as we careen around corners and pass within inches of other buses barreling down the road in the opposite direction.
Today we took a rickshaw tour of munnar. The landscape here is amazing and luck followed us and staved off the rain at each of the places the driver took us. Truly as we drove around the rain would pour and then the sun would come out right before we stopped to see an attraction. We were almost chilly at times and are not exactly looking forward to the return of heat and humidity. Apparently Ongole is back to being a large sauna.
Munnar is home to tea estates. They cover the hillsides in a huge green patchwork quilt. The constant rain keeps the colors vibrant and the occasional sunlight gives the mountains a magical glow. The air here is clean and fresh, something we’ve had a lack of the past few months, years if you count LA.
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