Onwards to Hyderabad, mid central India.

We were remiss in not taking and posting more pictures of the various barnyards (concrete enclaves) within Mysore and probably most larger Indian cities, where cows are milked and are kept in through the night. Come morning they are out and about scavenging for whatever vegetation they can come across in the streets and alleyways. These two were taken out of our window in Mysore.

We boarded a "sleeper bus" on a overnight journey to Hyderabad, a city with 10 million people that surrounds a lake, where there is a towering statue of Budda in the middle. A busy beehive of activity that I'm sure has every conceivable business and service offered which exists. 

Lisa and I stayed in a nicely designed newer hotel chain called Mango in Secunderabad, a borough of Hyderabad for $28.00 a night. Clean and spacious with an unusually comfortable bed. We found a great cooking stall that prepared excellent South Indian cuisine for about $2 bucks a meal. On that Friday we were picked up by a driver and car by some friends we made at the Ayurvadic Hospital, The Health Village, in Kerala in December.

Here we are with Sonika, we met in December and have kept in touch. This is her uncle and aunt.

We spent the afternoon and evening there and enjoyed a vegetarian meal with them.