Bus Travel

We left the hill station of Kodaikanal on the 8:30 am bus back to Madurai. As was expected, the cool temperatures got warmer and then hot as we dropped elevation. We got into Madurai around 12:30, took a local bus to the central bus station, and jumped onto another bus leaving for Kanyakumari at 1:10. Without planning it at all, the busses worked out really well time-wise. I was just groggy the whole time, as bus travel tends to make me, falling in and out of sleep the whole day. The trip to the southernmost tip of the country took six hours but it felt like double that. Around 6 pm, we got in view of the Western Ghats and hundreds and hundreds of wind turbines. I have never seen so many before and, while I find wind turbines to be quite fascinating to the eye, I kept thinking about the birds, if they indeed find themselves flying into the turbines, into their deaths.