After a weekend in Amsterdam I headed off for my next travels, this time returning to India but the mountains in the south of the country. It was initially looking like there might not be enough time for me to make the transfer from international to domestic flight in my limited timeframe, but fortunately passport control was not too painful and in the end, I was able to complete my itinerary as originally planned.
Once I arrived in Coimbatore in the south, I had an hour to wait before Gray and Rich joined me, and then we could all pile into a taxi and head north three hours to the town of Ooty where we would begin out birding. There was obviously not much birding to be done around the airport, but the roadsides around Ooty were full of Bonnet Macaques, which were incredibly comical to see as monkeys often are! The numbers of these was really quite impressive, with groups settled on nearly every corner!
We finally reached our hotel after dark and settled in ready for the next days birding.
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