Nothing new happened during the last days so I didn't write anything, but to keep blog alive, here is the summary of what we have been up to. We are trying to get to Kolkata, but trains are full (this is normal in India, all tickets should be bought at least week prior to planned departure), so in two days we drove from Kochi (left side of India) to Chennai (right side). Last bus ride took us 11 hours, but luckily was during the night.

Here, in Munnar, trekking/hiking is very popular, at least that is my understanding by constant questions whether we want guides for that. I haven't seen anyone hiking around, but the place is indeed very suitable for a walk. So, pumped up from previous climb to the nearby mountain, we decided to find (just by looking around) highest mountain and go into it's general direction, hoping to reach and climb it.

After 4 weeks in India crossing streets trough continues traffic becomes OK, eating street food and eating with hands also is not problem now. First stress or how it could be called "cultural shock" is passed. Some places in India now looking like at home (sweet home) and also filling is OK not so hot (filling like at Latvian summer). While we where at Belakype where is Tibetian camps, theirs momo's (pelmeni,dumplings) also was like at home (Latvia). Now I could call it second stress.

Today marks exactly one month since we arrived in India. This post will shortly describe my experience so far.

Today we visited tea factory. This was quite small factory, but it was unforgettable experience nevertheless. They produced CTC tea, which means Crush, Tear, Curl and consists of very small tea particles as opposed to full leaves. Basically it's black tea you can buy in supermarkets and is not very good.