Coorg

We took a trip to Coorg (the country), about a 5 hour drive outside of Bangalore, when our friend Pam was visiting us last week. We had so much fun with her. We missed having Brian with us--he was away for work (where he ran the Delhi Half Marathon in 1 hour 22 minutes!!)

We stayed on a farm that had guest villas. It was so beautiful and our hosts took very good care of us. We visited an elephant camp where the elephants were bathing in the river and we even got to take a ride on one. We drove up into the mountains to view beautiful waterfalls, coffee plantations, wild poinsettia trees and lush green valleys. We visited a majestic lake/dam at sunset and returned the next day to give the boys a taste of country life...throwing rocks into the stream as cows leisurely walked by us:) Our host took us to a nearby buddhist monastery which is home to 4,000 Tibetan monks. And his wife cooked delicious south Indian meals 3 times a day for us!

The fresh air and beautiful scenery were worth the 7 hour drive it took to get there:) ( there were numerous unexpected forks in the road that weren't included in the directions given to us:) The boys could have just gone to hold the puppies and stop at McDonald's on the way there and back and been happy campers:)