Kumily Pics

Black monkey in a tree outside our restaurant, Kumily. Pic by Rachel

We've finally done it - we've filled up our camera's memory card. We arrived in Penang, Malaysia yesterday, and spent today wandering around the island's capital Georgetown looking at the amazing Chinese and colonial architecture - as well as sampling the street food, including Nasi Goring, the local variation on fried rice, and Hokkien Mee, fried noodles imported from Fujian, China. And we took lots and lots of pictures. Given that we're still in the process of uploading pictures from India, it could be a while before today's photos make it online.

At any rate, the pics from Kumily, India have been on the Flickr page for at least a month now, but we hadn't posted about them yet on the blog, so here are a few. Kumily is an agreeable small town at the gateway to Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve. We did two daytime treks into the preserve, and while we didn't see any tigers - just tiger prints and the remains of some monkeys unfortunate enough to have seen the big cats up close - we did see bison, wild boar, giant squirrels (as we've said, more interesting than they sound), black monkeys, gorgeous birds and plants, and, best of all, a herd of wild elephants.

The Periyar/Kumily photos are here. Below are a few highlights.

Entrance to the park.

Wild elephants on the move. Photos by Rachel.

Coral tree

Trekking in Periyar Preserve.