Shopping tour and Topslips

Our second weekend is over- time is flying so fast :(( 

As India 75 team worked on Saturday we decided to go for shopping in Coimbatore and not to go to any tour without our guys. Our first destination was Brookefield, a big shopping mall to buy some Indian-styled clothes- which we all fell in love with. Women have great life here- from fashion point of view. They have a lot of nice materials to tailor from. Coimbatore has a big textile industry- so you don't have to go far to find wonderful dresses. After lunch in the mall we ( the girls) decided to re-visit our favorite place- FabIndia. Fabindia is India's largest private platform for products that are made from traditional techniques, skills and hand-based processes. My god, we could spend a lifetime there :))) The evening we went to a super-glamorous restaurant- The Residency. Soft music, red wine, delicious food, what else is needed? :))
 

Sunday we woke up early to get to Topsplip which is located above 300 meters from the sea level (Hills of elephants). It is an important tourist center in Indra Gandhi National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (sanctuary covers 958 sq.kms) in the Coimbatore District of Tamilnadu. We expected to see wild elephants and tigers but locals told us that they do not come out from their shelter this season- rather in May-June, therefore we saw one elephant, some monkeys, deers and a kind of Indian buffalo-called gar. We also saw a very old teak tee- it is said to be more than 450 years old. Amazing :)

The 450 years old teak tree

The TEAM: Joe- US, Govert- US( originally from the NL), Joao- Brasil, Bernd- Germany, Aya- Australia( originally from Japan), JeongRan-Korea, myself from Hungary, Sandra- Colombia, Andrew- Australia and crazy Grazey from The Philippines:))

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