Western Ghats or Wonderful Grazing! A place made for me. :-)
We hit the road down south with Maria and her driver Apoorva. The Western Ghats was all ours!
Winter time there is like a smooth summer in France, sunny, warm enough, but still softly chilly at night. Landscape is lovely: hilly, kind of mountainous, rivers everywhere, clean ones, where you can swim against the current, as a Big Fish among the other swimming animals, waterfalls, deep forests, huge old trees, nice creepers, green leafy wood, cool and humid small areas in the middle of nowhere, wild or domestic cattle grazing around. And quietness :-o, few cars, almost noise and pollution free, smart people, cleanliness of the street... After Mysore and a short nice time with Prem at his coconut farm, we headed for Tamil Nadu and Kerala border.
Bandipur National Park has been founded as a tigers reserve in 1973, and now protects several species of Indian wildlife, as Indian elephants. There is a ban on traffic from the hours of dusk to dawn. oh oh oh... I felt the temptation irresistible to stay overnight in this wildlife. ;-) We stopped the car on the side of the road, walked around, aware of the elephants that could cross our way, then made fire, cut tomatoes and onions in the peaceful and clear evening, enjoying nature time... National police arrived suddenly, shouting in Kannada, "How dare you, Indian piece of s..., getting this French and innocent girl involved in your dangerous and dirty plan!". Tension was highly perceptible. Bringing us down to earth, they lead us the way out of the park in order to wait for the final decision of our case with the park officers the very morning. Thanks Apoorva for your perfect reactions! Mild and clever behaviour plus a few banknotes struck the deal before the police came. I told you, lady!
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