Just a quickie. Had breakfast and checked out and now waiting for coach to take us on 6 hour journey to visit tea plantations. As the crow flies it isn't far to travel but we'll be driving on more hair raising winding roads
The guy looking after our room called in yesterday to demonstrate his prowess with towel folding
and a few fuzzy photos from our evening Tuk Tuk ride .. they can't begin to describe how exhilerating the ride was ... from the start our 7 Tuk Tuks left the hotel like 'rats up drainpipes' I think they'd been bribed to give us white knuckled rides.
The Tuk Tuks battled other road users to keep us in a convoy and at one stage it was like the 'Italian Indian Job' with our drivers weaving all over the road
David reflected in the 'wing mirrors' here
Riding three abreast here with Ian & Etta next to us and Anne in the far one
Terrific fun and wouldn't have missed it for the world, but wouldn't have been happy riding a Tuk Tuk in the streets of Delhi or Jaipur. Although the streets were teeming with people and traffic here it was still much less scary
The guy looking after our room called in yesterday to demonstrate his prowess with towel folding
and a few fuzzy photos from our evening Tuk Tuk ride .. they can't begin to describe how exhilerating the ride was ... from the start our 7 Tuk Tuks left the hotel like 'rats up drainpipes' I think they'd been bribed to give us white knuckled rides.
The Tuk Tuks battled other road users to keep us in a convoy and at one stage it was like the '
Riding three abreast here with Ian & Etta next to us and Anne in the far one
Terrific fun and wouldn't have missed it for the world, but wouldn't have been happy riding a Tuk Tuk in the streets of Delhi or Jaipur. Although the streets were teeming with people and traffic here it was still much less scary
Love the towels. Glad you enjoyed the Tuk Tuk.
ReplyDeleteThe towel folding is impressive and so are the Tuk Tuks! I wonder if there are many accidents in any of the cities with the teeming streets?
ReplyDeleteLove the towels...SO talented!! Wonderful photos as always, Sue! Enjoy your time away and stay safe.....keep those photos coming!.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to remember how he folded the towels. The elephant was done from one hand towel and a large face flannel (with bits of flowers for eyes, tusks.
ReplyDeleteThe traffic/driving is amazing Jan. They weave in and out, overtake on blind bends and sound the horns constantly, but there is no 'road rage' well not that we've seen anyway - and the drivers do seem to know the exact width of their vehicles and miss each other by inches. Larger vehicles just assume priority (even when it isn't their 'right of way' )and pedestrians just dodge between all the moving vehicles.
I think our biggest concern was for the motorbike riders and passengers - most of whom don't bother with helmets. We know how badly Richard (my stepson) was hurt when he came off his bike and he was wearing top quality helmet and leathers.