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After a sensational breakfast of a tower of pancakes and fruit we walked over the cliff tops and beaches to the small trading centre. In monsoon season many businesses close so it was very quiet with only small number of places open. This area is famous for Aiyuvedic medicine so it was only fair that we experienced it too. Our hosts set us up with an Aiyuvedic massage at a local centre which was a 20 minute walk away. Not really knowing what to expect, we arrived at what looked like someone's home where we were taken upstairs to a small office to discuss our treatments. We both opted a standard full body massage. This was about to be a hell of an experience - and definitely not a standard massage! We were taken into separate rooms and asked to take our clothes off. I took off my top and shorts and was then told "no, everything". The man (probably in his late 60s) stood and watched. I was then fitted with some extremely small, paper pants and asked to sit on a wooden stool where I received a very oily head massage before being transferred to the bed for what felt like an intimate rub down with lashings and lashings of strong smelling hot oil. The aiyuvedic massage was probably going to be a one-off experience although we did feel relaxed and rejuvenate when leaving, if not a bit oily! Our next adventure was to go and track down the local elephant which we were told was usually spotted close the local temple. It was a 30 minute or so walk over the cliffs and through the town to the temple. A miserable woman told us that we weren't allowed to enter the temple because Helens dress was too short - we quickly told her that we had no desire to see her temple but that we were looking for the elephant (due to the lady's size, she could quite easily have been mistaken for what we were looking for). A couple of local guys eventually pointed us in the direction of the elephant which ended up being located in the grounds of the primary school. The security guard allowed us in and after a self tour around the grounds of the school we spotted the elephant in the corner of the playground, unfortunately for him but probably for the safety of the kids, chained up. We stayed for a few minutes to see the elephants and chat to the school kids before heading back to the town for another cheap lunch in one of the local cafes. We stopped to chat to some dogs, including a puppy on the way back to the hotel. We had dinner and a chilled evening at Inda Hotel.
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