Most of the group at the start. Pandian, Vanitha, Krishnaveni, Santosh, Vijayaraghavan, Ramya Swaroop, Siddharth, Priya, Gautam, Uday. (Ashima, Abir and Amay are missing)
Narasimman was kind enough to take us to an organic farm, which his uncle, Sri Sundararaman, manages, with the help of his wife Smt Radha, and their son, Sri Krishnan. They were very hospitable, and did not mind our intrusion. We had some superb filter coffee, madew with milk that was fresh from the cow on the farm...and, after ages, yumm really-
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On our visit to the Sathymangalam area, we drove past the Seeta Kalyana Mahal, a wedding mantapa, in Gobichettypalayam, where all the big fat weddings used to take place.
We were on our way to Aiyur for the Melagiri biodiversity walk, when we stopped at Namil Eri (Eri means lake), and spotted two very unusual birds there.