Our trip back down the mountain was made all the more eventful by Brahm Datt's car sickness. Apparently he only gets it on the way down, not on the way up or on level roads. We had to stop three times for the poor guy...Once we made it back down it was smooth sailing through some pastoral Indian countryside. I kept seeing these interesting-looking contraptions in fields - big tanks that were filled with some kind of plants - so I asked Brahm Datt (also my go-to guy regarding all things agricultural since Rajiv is hopeless and the driver said they were for concrete!!) what they were.
It turns out they are for extracting mint oil from mint plants and all the lush green fields we were driving past were mint fields and all the oxcarts we were passing were filled with the harvested mint! We stopped near one and got out of the car to check it out (well, Brahm Datt and me at least) to the great joy and amusement of the poor guys working there and some passers-by who stopped to gawk at me gawking at the mint extracting process. In case anyone doesn't know the miracle that is Pudin Hara (Rajiv's cure for everything) check out http://www.dabur.com/en/products/Health_Care/Digestive/PudinHara/
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