The Forest Research Institute is a vast institution housed in gorgeous brick buildings dating to the 1800s. As usual, we began our tour with introductions via personal microphones and then toured the numerous museums throughout the facility. After that, we jumped in our bus and toured the chemistry area, biology labs, and a very interesting medicinal garden that was everyone’s favorite. Just when we thought the trip was over, we ventured over to the botanists offices and saw a very old specimen dating back to the 1700s (?). The main botanist was super excited about their specimens and took us on a tour of a huge bamboo forest. Just when we thought we had seen and experienced all types of bamboo, he showed us something new like giant bats that are the size of medium sized birds. Images of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, the Birds, definitely crossed our minds.
Our guide was all about the bamboo. We toured the forest for over an hour and finally had to cut him off to return to the hotel. We were bambooed out!
That evening or perhaps it was another day, we returned to the Wildlife Institute to challenge their graduate students to a game of Cricket. Since we had no experience with this exotic game, we were mixed with the graduate students in order to create fair teams. Unsurprisingly, all of the Americans were just okay at this new game. Our hosts were incredible and took it easy on us. The game, which started off super slow, ended with an exciting finish. The final score was 69-70. Ask Sherry how to score a cricket game since she is the only one who figured it out. How you can score 40 runs in 30 minutes is beyond my imagination according to Becky.
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