Got up for yoga at 8 AM to 9 WITH Vinod on the lawn of the Taj. We use grass mats, and are in the shade under the Jacaranda trees. There is a big sign nailed to the tree:JACARANDA. I see evidence of the purple flowers but the trees have none of their glorious purple colours which I love in Zim. The class is very good. I was the only student. Music was provided by the crows.....various different sounds, as well as lovely bird sounds. Pity this doesn't happen in Canada. There is a magnificent purple bougainvillea tree in the grounds of the Taj. Vinod always lights incense, even outside on the lawn. The yoga is very different to what I do in Canada but some is the same. I'm working at the belly fat reduction all the time. I can walk to and from yoga as it's so close.. Today I took pics of karungu ( monkeys Tamill ) in the hotel complex. Vinod makes me keep my hat and bag very close to the yoga mat so karungu don't jump off the jacaranda trees and run off with my things. Also in the yoga room which we use in the afternoon, he is insistent I keep my things away from the door as they may enter the room. They walk all around the yoga room complex!!
After yoga I had breakfast and headed off to town to shop for my sister Ros. I am buying her Indian clothes for her birthday. I bought some great Indian table runners, a porcelain mug, and some Ayurvedic supplies.
I asked the taxi to take me to the travel agent to make arrangements for my exit at the end of the month as my visa expires. He got lost and we went around the town..lol! Anyway we discovered it was very close to my hotel. It costs less to live here than Canada for sure. The taxi took me to the tea factory and I share pics of that experience. Arun my high school boy guide was excellent, and very very well informed, so he got a good tip. I was shown the process from the beginning. Only the grinding process was shut down today. The tour was great anyway, and I went to the tea sample place and the teas were excellent. I bought some ginger black tea to take home. The shop sold all manner of herbs spices, Ayurvedic oils etc, especially eucalyptus oil. Arun took me to that factory and explained the process. It was a great experience. I came home, relaxed and was picked up by the Ayurvedic Retreat hospital in Coonoor. I heard about it from a guy I know here. It was a very high quality experience, and I am seriously considering going there for the month of June or what remains of it. Yes. I'm still going to the Mountain top clinic in July!! It's all good!!
Above: Karungu on the lawn
above: Who said women aren't strong??
Above: this is the dried tea on the floor
Above: lady tips out the dried leaves....they dry under fans on the table below for 8 hours
Above: Arun the guide at the drying table....fans beneath
Above: tea goes along here to get shredded etc
Above : the tea powder
Above: bagging
Above: in the tea shop where I sampled 4 types of tea...you don't sample white tea as its' too expensive to allow samples!!
Above: bags of spices so cheap and excellent quality
Above: tea bushes and walk way to the eucalyptus factory
Above: the oil factory: walls are made of the dried eucalyptus leaves. They are airing to form walls!! Then these blackened leaves fuel the fire inside to heat the fresh leaves to make the oil. They just pull leaves out of the wall and throw them in the fire.
Above: the huge cauldron with fresh leaves in
Above: once the leaves are mixed with water, and heated you get the above phase
Above: the furnace to heat the oil, note the black leaves that are used to fuel the fire
Above: closing the cauldron with leaves and water in. Below one of the outfits I looked for, for my sister Ros.
Above: Arun points to the hole down which the dried leaves are poured to go to the grinding process
Above: the walls of the Eucalyptus oil factory are pulled off and fed into the furnace to heat the leaves and water
Above: all the big vats, one closest is ready to be closed and heated
Above: the oil and water comes out
Above: mixed with water, eucalyptus oil on top, below leaves ready to be used. Below that is the pic of the garment for my sister in the Fabindia store
After yoga I had breakfast and headed off to town to shop for my sister Ros. I am buying her Indian clothes for her birthday. I bought some great Indian table runners, a porcelain mug, and some Ayurvedic supplies.
I asked the taxi to take me to the travel agent to make arrangements for my exit at the end of the month as my visa expires. He got lost and we went around the town..lol! Anyway we discovered it was very close to my hotel. It costs less to live here than Canada for sure. The taxi took me to the tea factory and I share pics of that experience. Arun my high school boy guide was excellent, and very very well informed, so he got a good tip. I was shown the process from the beginning. Only the grinding process was shut down today. The tour was great anyway, and I went to the tea sample place and the teas were excellent. I bought some ginger black tea to take home. The shop sold all manner of herbs spices, Ayurvedic oils etc, especially eucalyptus oil. Arun took me to that factory and explained the process. It was a great experience. I came home, relaxed and was picked up by the Ayurvedic Retreat hospital in Coonoor. I heard about it from a guy I know here. It was a very high quality experience, and I am seriously considering going there for the month of June or what remains of it. Yes. I'm still going to the Mountain top clinic in July!! It's all good!!
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