The longest day ever

Katie and I headed to the mountains yesterday. Our trip was pretty hilarious. We started by taking a ferry to Kochi, took an autorickshaw to the trainstation, took a 4 hour train to Calicut, took another autorickshaw to the bus station loaded what we deemed the scariest bus ever up into the mountains toward our destination-Kalpetta. We expected to arrive at our hotel about 8 pm. A truck accident on the mountain overpass we were on blocked traffic and suddenly our bus was turned off and we sat for about 2 hours. We recognized that there were 2 other white people on the bus (from berlin) and we banded together. Smaller vehicles were still moving in traffic, so our bus driver flagged down a random safari type jeep and we jumped in the back assured that the driver would get us to our hotel... in a nutshell, ALL traffic eventually stopped and we sat again until 130 am. We are now near Wayanad wildlife sanctuary, and will probably head into the park with hopes of spotting tigers and elephants in their natural habitat. Can't wait to have a big salad!