Kumily gets a little spicy

We arrived in Kumily yesterday afternoon after taking a beautiful scenic drive from Fort Cochin, following the windy roads up into the clouds.

We found it much less charming here, since it has been raining constantly and has been chilly with lots of overly idle touts, since it's the low tourist season here. We'll have to pass on the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary for now since Kristen and I have both been suffering with a bit of altitude sickness. We'll be taking a car tomorrow morning to Madurai to get back into lower lands.
During our brief stay here we landed upon the 'Lord's Spices', a spice shop where we bought a bounty of different spices and tea to bring back to the states.

Kristen drove a pretty hard bargain with them. They commented just like every other Indian guys who's had the pleasure of doing with business with us, that she can be a bit "spicy".

Sampling of some of the stuff we got: vanilla bean, cinnamon, tumeric, chili powder, pepper, masala mix, tea, coffee, cardamom, saffron, etc.