Masinagudi

So Mr. D, Crocodile and I went off to Masinagudi for 3 days last weekend. Pictures from the trip. (Notice the pun?)

Breakfast at Kamat Lokaruchi next to Janapada Loka. Funky idli, that.

Stopped near Nanjangud for a bit. Funky soda bottle, no? The picture was taken at, erm 9:30 AM.

In Bandipur. Jungle ka haathia with 2 calves, one of which did a mock-charge at Crocodile when he got out of the car to click photgraphs. Serves him right.

Croc's friend, Abid runs a small place called Wild Ways. It's very close to Jungle Retreat, for those of you familiar with that neck of the woods.

And he has a dog named Monkey and a cat named Ooty.

On our evening safari.
On our morning safari.
The safari went through some jungle trails looking for animals that were not spotted deer because we hadn't seen anything on our evening safari, night safari or the morning safari.

Tiger poo, apparently.

We also went up to Ooty, went to Doddabetta and made Croc do terrible touristy things like look through a telescope (more like a travelling microscope) at the Ooty Race Course but made up for it with fun lunch at the Irani Restaurant on Main Street.

After all our disappointing safaris, we went on a trek on the third evening. After 2 and a half hours of tiring walking on absolutely flat plains, we spotted a large tusker behind some trees and a stream ahead of us. In a minute, we had taken off our shoes, rolled up jeans and scurried across the stream. Good things adrenalin can do for you.