After the elephant ride (read earlier blog first), we headed to a recycled paper factory. It was so impressive. They take the scraps from trimming cotton t-shirts, underwear, etc. and turn them into beautiful paper products. We toured the plant and saw the whole process (some by machine, but mostly manual, as most things are in India due to the huge number of workers and expense of machinery). The final products are fabulous...as beautiful as our most expensive wrapping papers, note cards, book marks, etc (afterall, they import to us), except they were so inexpensive...I always want to buy more of things like this, but my suitcases are already bulging at the seams...I think that I'm going to have to buy a new suitcase in order to get everything home. (At every rotary meeting and most
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