DAY 11

On Day 11, that is on the 18^th of January, 2013, our day started early with a visit to a temple in Sri Sailam. The temple was over-crowded and we all could actually see how surprised the Germans were to see people pushing each other and making their way just to have a glance of the idol in the temple… After the visit to temple was done, we headed towards our rooms and met for breakfast and then finally checked out of our rooms and headed towards one of the ‘core areas’ of the forest!!

In the forest we were all instructed to maintain silence and stay together as a group. As we walked into the forest we came across animal pug marks! We mostly saw leopard pug marks and that of spotted deer. In the forest, we came across the cameras which captured the movements of the animals. Finally, we reached a place in the forest and decided that we would not go any further.

We had a brainstorming session related to the forest ecosystem. We were all divided into four groups and each group was given a topic to talk on and after the group was done talking, the rest were made to ask them questions on things related to the given topic! According to me, this activity was very interactive, fun and educative.

Later in the day, we went to  Ecological Knowledge Park, in which we could see statues of how people and animals evolved over a period of time. Then we had lunch at a restaurant and boarded our buses and left for Hyderabad.