We went to the Borra Caves, which were pretty cool. I did get some pictures of those, some are a little hard to see because of the lighting. And the trees and river outside of it, which were just as cool as the caves in my opinion. The whole place is beautiful. I did feel a little bit nervous in the caves when walking on some of the slightly unsafe stairs, but that might have been only because my balance is a bit off sometimes.
If you click on this picture, it will enlarge, and you can read all about the Borra Caves. Don't feel obligated though - It isn't particularly fascinating. I just thought it would be useful information if anyone cares to read about them.
Outside of the Borra Caves was this very pretty stream, so I took pictures because I loved it.
This is right outside of the Borra Caves as we are about to go in.
We started going in. There were tons of stairs, so we all got our workout for the day.
I am actually in this picture - can you see me? Where is Waldo...
I love this picture. It was so cool seeing this little peephole to the outside.
Then when we got back outside, we saw a few monkeys. One of them apparently thought my friend had food, and promptly attacked her. She freaked, obviously. I mean, how many times does a person get attacked by a monkey in the U.S.? No worries, though. My friend escaped.
This is a picture of some of us after our Borra Cave tour. We are happy.
Oh, the drive over to the Borra Caves – really crazy. The roads were super zig-zag-y, and the driver liked to drive in the wrong lane, even when we were going around a bend. So at every turn I was sure we were going to run head-on into a bus, but we never did. The scariest part was when we reached the Borra Caves and the driver didn’t realize there was a thick metal bar across the road to prevent us from driving any farther. We were driving pretty fast and were amazingly close to the bar before the driver saw it and stopped. It put all of us in the car into a little bit of a shock. I was in the passenger seat (once again, I never learn) and probably would have been beheaded had he kept going. I swear the front window was about 2 inches from the bar before he managed to stop the car. Very scary driver, that is all I have to say.

There is the bar that almost decapitated me. Too bad I didn't get the picture when the car was temporarily parked about 2 inches away from it - you will just have to believe me.
After the Borra Caves, we went over to a Non-Profit Organization that helps a lot of the remote villages in Vizag to live in safer conditions. We ate lunch with them. Delicious food, once again. My favorite – the potatoe curry. Man, I wish I had filled my plate with just that, and rice with curd, which is also my favorite. I bet I could eat that every day.
Then we went down to visit a village that was going to do a dance-performance thing for us. They normally do it in celebration for Pongal, which was actually going to be the next day, but they performed it early I think so that we could see it. Very kind of them. Visiting the village made me realize how people can have so little, and yet they can still be so happy. I just love that idea. Riches just don’t equal happiness, that is just how it is.
Here are some of the people of the village. I wanted to take pictures of all the babies, they were just so beautiful.
Some of the students participated in the dancing celebration, but I didn’t at the time because somebody needed to hold the bags, so I was absolutely fine with doing that. But later we went back to the non-profit organization building and did dancing with the people there. Dr. Nuckolls had brought his 80 year old friend with us on this whole excursion, and he probably enjoyed dancing the most. It was so fun to watch him dance, I loved it.