![]() ![]() Brahma cowsĮmerging out of the side brush or stationed directly in the middle of the Traffic flows like a river, filling empty spaces with overtaking cargo trucks,īuses, cars and mopeds, all dodging potholes and asphalt patchwork. Highway, sweat flowing, heat intense, shade of banyon trees and jungle growth ![]() Happy Holidays!!! We'll find a unique way to celebrate Christmas this year! The incomparable education on the road they experience daily is priceless. Sampson, Markos and Tarn don't take week ends off school but forge on, doing school whenever they can. With the variety of unknown opportunities that come up with each day, (last night we camped out in a school classroom and were hosted for dinner with the 63 Standard 10 boys who live at the school hostel). Lunches: Veg Thali, Masala Dosa and cold drinks (Fanta, Limca, water)ĭinners: dal, curries, chipati, roti, biryani, Sambhar and Rosan, tandoori chicken, Tarn's favourite - Veg Manchuri Soup and concoctions of local vegies (eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, green chilies, garlic and onion) with rice when we cook over our campstoveīoys are busy with semester wrap-up of distance learning school. Hundreds of passing mopeds, many slowing to chat "What country? What your name?" We never know what exactly we'll come across in the day ahead.īike snacks: little bananas, oranges, pomegranates, the daily mix of raisins and nuts (almonds, cashews, groundnuts, pistachios) and datesīreakfasts: rice, nuts and bananas oatmeal with raisins, pomegranate seeds and bananas egg dish with potatoes, tomatoes, onions and garlic Rough, broken roads, smooth, fresh pavement. Clean, neat, well-kept villages, trash piles and rummaging pigs on the outskirts of towns. Small fields of rice terraces, ox-pulled wagons towering with sugarcane. Days that followed opened changing landscapes. We rode through the Kali Tiger Reserve (no sightings) and several forest reserves, camping at a tiny, quiet village school when the Eco-camp said they were "Full" (the place looked vacant). The incredible jungle of trees shading the road sidetracked the sweat and exhaustion of the ride. ![]() We dove inland into India leaving the west coast at Karwar, Karnataka and climbing up the steep switchbacks of the Western Ghats. Markos overlooking the rice terraces near Hampi, Karnataka. The loud music they project is a fun break from the more common sounds of moped horns. Additionally, tractors chug by pulling wagons towered with hay. Lots of huge oxen share the road with us. I am buying nuts and raisins from a general store just adjacent when this pic was taken. The fabric is hand loomed from hand spun cotton, likely from the local cotton fields we've cycled by in the past days. The textile factory where all the official government flags of India are sewn. Small scale farming amongst the nature reserves of the Western Ghats. Monkeys and ancient columns at the temple complexes, Hampi, Karnataka. An incredible environment to cycle through! A coastal range of numerous nature and tiger reserves. An overlook part way up the steep climb through the Western Ghats. ![]()
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