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April 2010 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

This month’s calendar is an image of marble rocks in Madhya Pradesh. About 25km from Jabalpur, River Narmada’s waters converge into a narrow valley after tumbling down from Dhuandhar Falls. The river bed that is a few hundred meters wide suddenly shrinks into this gorge no wider than a swimming pool! Download it in 1280×800 and 1024×768


Video: Harvesting Pepper

On the last TravelWise tour of Coorg, we interacted extensively with the planter who hosted us. He spent about three hours walking us around the estate and talking about every single plant within their property.

As we walked, he would look carefully into ground or into a tree, pick up some grass or a small leaf and ask us to chew or smell it. He would pick up a strange looking fruit from a tree, cut it into pieces and tell us to eat it. He would go on to talk about vegetation in the forest that effectively curtailed forest fire or about pests that are trapped by luring them into a bowl of alcohol! The session that we planned for an hour lasted three hours, but it never seemed like we were there so long.

Here is a short video of Mr. Prakash Poovanna explaining how Pepper is harvested.


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March 2010 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

The calendar for this month is the image of a Chestnut Tailed Starling. Download 1024×768 or 1280×800.