1) After a 24 hour marathon of sleeper trains and multiple connections of local buses, locate a rainforest hideaway 1250 metres up in the Coorg mountains.
2. Be greeted by two steaming cups of coffee. Learn that the beans have been plucked from the mountainside and sun roasted in the courtyard a stones throw from your seat.
3. Lay your weary head in a log cabin. Ebb sleepwards to the forest's music.
4. Arise at dawn. Salute the sun as it rises over the mountainside. Let the rhythm of woodpeckers plucking forest trunks guide your movements.
3. Drizzle fragrant honey on your breakfast. Find that the toast has been crisped by electricity generated by a pelton wheel turbine. Listen for the bass thrum of the bees that supplied your breakfast topping.
4. Take your clothes to the river, let the flow cool your ankles. Slap your clothes on the flat rocks like the saried ladies of Hampi. Enjoy the simplicity of domesticity.
5. Dusty and peaceful from a five hour trek to the dazzling waterfall, cleanse your skin with mineral spring water heated over an open log fire.
6. Laugh as a young sow joins you at the open tap and eats your soap.
7. Gather firewood and chop before your log cabin. Let the night gather around you; spend the evening hypnotised by the flames licking the black air.
8. Look up, and gasp at the blanket of silver stars hanging above you. Feel sobered at the realisation of the light pollution that you have always known.
9. Sleep deeply, calmed by simplicity.
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