Dave is sure he is going to starve to death here in India. He had dreams of pizza last night. Judy is fairing somewhat better. After a nice non breakfast Harilal picks us up. Off we go in to the peaceful country side with the horn blasting away. The Tea plantations are truly beautiful. They look like green jigsaw puzzles on the steep hillsides. There are scattered trees to break up the scene. In the background are the mountains shrouded in mist. You expect to see elephants and tigers around every corner....(except the horn honking would scare them away!). We pass a couple of lakes and finally arrive at the Pampadum wild life sanctuary. As required, we employ a "guide" Santhosh, to take us on a walk for a couple of hours. Our hope of seeing elephants or tigers soon fades as our guide has a running dialogue with our driver while we trek. The walk is a nice relief from listening to the horn in the Maytag. Judy interrupts our "guides" conversation long enough to show him a few monkeys in the trees above his head. . "Wow"! he says....Hmmmmm

When we get back to the road to start back, they tell us it's only two and a half kilometers to the car. No problem we say. Off we go. Gee, we keep going. Oh, it's all up hill. About an hour later we are back. HUNGRY

The restaurant we were going to is 'finished". So we head over to the local greasy spoon. That means curry. Not my favorite ~ any more. So we try "Bred Omlet". Those are friend onions & bread with egg over the top. Not bad really.

We ended the outing with a tour of a tea factory. Judy acquired a nice selection of different teas. We enjoyed talking to the workers. They all seemed to be happy in their work. Later we found out that the employees own over 60% of the company. Nice bunch of folks..

Fun Day!