.From the temples, we boarded the bus to a restaurant about 10 minutes away - Ghandi’s Restaurant. One dish was “Chicken Chowmine” and it was like shredded chicken with spaghetti with some kind of seasoning. It was ok. Enjoyed the cucumber salad (cliced mini cuke with lime for squeezing. Lots of soda water and water to rehydrate. By this time, fellow traveller Dave was not feeling well at all - he was sick from a heat stroke. He had cancelled out on the safari option (which we had opted out of last night). So five of us went back to our palace via SUV. We had long chats along the way about music and food.
Upon returning to Alipura we spent time in the WiFi room trying to catch up with computer stuff.

The rest of the crew had gone on the safari (3,000 rupees each). We declined as it is also get included in the southern part of our tour. They saw lots of antelope, and the guide had a scanner for the tiger (tagged). It was prowling in the bushes but never did show itself. They did catch a glimpse of a leopard. The most exciting part was the chase for a view of the leopard over rough rutty trails. I guess it was worth the 3000 for those who went.

Those of us who came back early had supper together in the hotel dining room. We had butter chicken, french fries, and tandoori chicken, which took a long time to prepare. The discusssion got a bit heated about religion, politics, etc. We broke up the discussion and left for the WiFi room.