Srimangala

Srimangala
I headed to the Palace before I left, although small its quite a place, it reminds me of Chinese/ Japanese buildings, it has two separate bedrooms and bathrooms for the king and queen, there was even a secret hiding place. I liked the place and when built was deep in the jungle and it was late in 1834 before the warlord surrendered to the English.
As I stopped to go in the kids in the school gave me no rest endlessly repeating Tata so I went to speak to them first and took their photograph which delighted them as usual.

I enjoyed my days cycle, with the views of the upcoming mountains coming closer and closer.
Dinner was entertaining, Srimangala is a very small town and I didnt realise there was Lodging here so on spotting the Inspectors lodge, spent some effort getting access. This was a little difficult as the old guy insisted calling head office but the phone lines were down. Eventually we got an answer on a mobile and I was cleared, then we had to discuss the price a little and I eventually got him down to Rs200. He made a big deal of forging the register, but there was no way I was paying six times the going rate.




I had some cold veg curry at the very grotty Hotel/ restaurant where I also enjoyed breakfast served by a breathtakingly pretty girl.





I bought a couple of beers in the bar and this is the first place Ive seen women hanging around the bar, they didnt seem to be drinking or haranguing their husbands either.

A fairly uneventfully evening.