We dropped 1500 metres today on a good windy road. Tea plantations covered the steep mist shrouded slopes with early morning pluckers at work removing the tips of the plant that had grown overnight. Waterfalls were in abundance providing a free source of water for the enterprising car washers plying their trade on the side of the road.
It rained all the way, that fine drizzly rain that soaks and makes the road slippery. I was doubly carefull as a couple of the tyres on the hire car were low on tread. Coming around a sharp corner on a steep downhill section I was presented with a broken down bus stopped in the middle of our side of the road. Coming up the hill was another bus. I gently applied the brakes fearing we might slide then suddenly I heard this screeching of brakes behind us and a car skidding. An older car with two young blokes in it was sliding towards our rear. The driver had the foresight or luck to turn the steering wheel putting the car in a 180 degree spin and ending up facing the way he had come. He came to a halt less than 2 metres from our rear. In the meantime the bus coming towards us had stopped with the passengers having a great view of the drama. Luckily they didn't hit us, imagine trying to explain to the hire car bloke why the back of the car as well as the front was all pushed in as the car would have pushed us into the stationary bus.
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