Before we left Rajan on Tuesday, he took us to the Saraswati Nahal Library, the oldest library in Asia. There are 60,000 manuscripts, including fragile manuscripts written on palm leaves. Hopefully, everything will get digitized soon. The docs that are on display are amazing and not well protected. What especially […]
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I think it was Tuesday, we were starving by the time we got to the Gnanam Hotel in Thanjuvor. and we had to find a tailor for Ronni. We took off to find dinner and instead found a sign for a tailor. We followed the arrow down a narrow path, […]
We got up in time to take a 7AM bird-watching walk with a member of the staff who’s official title is “Green Butler” and who has become the resident naturalist. He has been working for the hotel for 7 years and knows where to look for every bird in the […]
This morning we left Kaivalyam. As there were only 10 rooms, we met many of the other guests, a few of whom we may see in LA. Suresh was at the top of the road to meet us and we begin our long drive over the mountain range (Western Ghats) […]