Today we travel to Dudhsagar water falls in eastern Goa. It's apparently one of the most spectacular water falls in India, but it's not just the falls themselves that are the attraction, it's the journey there. From Colva we've hired a small van to take us the hour-long journey to Collim where we transfer to a 4WD jeep for the journey up the hill. At Collim there are scores of other people who have arrived to take the same journey, and there are plenty of jeeps available. The activity at Collim appears chaotic as a manager-type-chap organises six people to each jeep, plus driver and guide. In our jeep there's an Aussie bloke, an Icelandic man, an Irish woman and an English woman, plus us.

The drive up to the falls takes an hour, during which we pass through water four times, one of which is deep enough for the water to come through the door! The falls and the road there are in a national park, which is apparently home to all sorts of exotic creatures. We don't see much except some water buffalo. We do notice that the forest floor is littered with large webs, each of which has a hole in the centre about 2-3cm across. No doubt these are made by some large ground-dwelling spider, but no-one offers to poke one with a stick to find out!
We get out at a small carpark about 10 minutes walk from the falls. At the falls themselves there's a very large deep rock pool so Clive, and many others, go in for a swim. The water's lovely! After Clive has got out, someone throws a piece of banana in the water, which is immediately taken by a very large fish accompanied by much splashing and frothing of the water. Clive checks his toes to make sure he didn't lose any.

Once we're back down the hill we transfer back to our van and head for the Sahakari Spice Farm where we hear that there's a tour and lunch on offer for R300 each. This proves to be correct - in fact it's very good on both counts. The tour is run by a very entertaining and informative chap who takes us around the farm and explains how each of the spices is harvested. The whole farm covers about 160 acres, so the tour is limited to a 'demonstration' area. Our guide fires questions at our small tour group to see how much we know - what are the names of various spices and where are they found? Sarah correctly answers most of the questions, until another member of the group accuses her of having been here before and having an unfair advantage! The tour includes a visit to the resident elephants, whose party-piece appears to be to put their trunks between the women's legs without warning! At the end of the tour, for no obvious reason, we all have to have a cup of cold water poured down the backs of our shirts.