That little boy did not deserve two new toy cars last night. He grumbled all through the night, with a few big paddies thrown in for good measure. He woke us up for good around 7am. James is sat next to me giggling while texting someone so I glance at his phone and see that he is texting Chandra ‘Cat Facts’…this doesn't really surprise me because James is a cat fan and I think nothing of it. Half an hour before the train was due to arrive in the station Chandra, who'd been on the phone for the past hour, bounds into the carriage grinning. “Guys, I have a good idea. We could go on a safari today in the mountains. It will take 2 ½ hours to get there but there is nothing to do in Mysore today and it will be fun.” We all look at each other, reluctant to ruin how excited he is and sign up for the safari. We quickly check in, throw our bags in the hotel rooms and jump in the taxi to the Tamil Nadu. The journey is similar to the five hour taxi we look to Thekkady, stop/ start, diversions to gravel roads due to road works and horns beeping, and it lasts three hours due to the road works. The jungle retreat is lush and green with big mountains and tall trees surrounding it. A buffet lunch is already laid out and we eat. After lunch Chandra complains, quite passionately, about how he's been receiving ‘Cat Facts’ texts and he's been trying to unsubscribe and he's even called the number to cancel but it's not working, so he was going to call Vodaphone to rectify it. This morning suddenly makes sense. James is giggling. Beth and JohnMiller are clueless and I ask Chandra how long he's been receiving them for. 4 days. 4 days worth of useless, mostly made up, Cat Facts from James. I'm crying with laughter, Beth looks at me confused by how funny I find it and Chandra wakes away to make his phone call. We can hear him complaining to Vodaphone and I tell James I had seen his text and explain to Beth and JohnMiller what was going on. Chandra gets back and James confesses. Our safari wasn't scheduled until 4:30pm, so we played badminton. Girls vs boys. We won. The boys didn't even stand a chance. 50:38. By the time we had toured the retreat grounds, climbed into the tree houses and saw the look out towers it was time for our safari. Similar to my jungle trek naivety, I had thought we would see tigers and elephants aplenty. I was wrong. We saw birds and deer. But the scenery was worth the drive alone and the temperature was a welcome 10 degrees cooler minus humidity. Three hours later the sun had set and we met with our taxi driver to take us back to Mysore. Then, as we drove through the reserve back to the highway, to the left bison. A bloody massive bison. And further along, on the right, a beautiful wild elephant with bright, long, white tusks. Chandra had worked at the retreat for five years and had an amazing eye for spotting the animals in between all of the trees. We finally got our wild elephant. I slept most of the way back. Back at the hotel we watched an episode of The Mentalist and slept.