Outside with the Computer Class

Another important bonding time we have with the children is outside the computer class and Saturdays is a great time as it's our only day off, which we do take as rest time too, but also arrange things with the kids.

A few weeks before Christmas we went to visit a beautiful traditional village called Ramkot, famous for its round houses, actually there are only 2. Above, you can see a picture of all us guys outside one of the houses. But it's a lovely walk about 1 and a half hours both ways.

It was great to stretch our legs, especially the kids, as Bandipur is pretty much where they are all the time, so to go out for a mini trek outside their town is great for them. We take drinks and snacks for the journey. What is great though, is the local knowledge these kids have. About their plants and trees in particular, they know which fruits and berries are good to eat. You can see in another picture above, them picking for a small, stoned fruit that is very bitter, I forgot the name. It was a great day and as usual the weather excellent.

Then for the first Saturday of the western New Year, we went to Siddha Cave for the second time. You may remember, on my first weekend here I went with the previous volunteer, but Angela the new volunteer wanted to go and see it.

We could only take a few of the older boys for safety purposes, but it was still great fun. The journey their and back is similar to Ramkot. You can see in one of the pictures above all us guys sitting on the rock eating or rather sucking on a sugar cane, which one of the boys thoughtfully brought for us. All in all a great day out.

And just before Angela and I leave, we are taking 12 of the guys rafting. Which they are all very excited and can't wait, us too!