Greetings from Delhi 3
Bloged in India by Jezza on Friday January 13, 2006 at about 12:04 amHi everyone. We’re back in Delhi today after returning on the bus from Jaipur today. We caught the bus at about lunch time and reached Delhi at about 5:30pm, then we caught an auto-rickshaw for about 20 minutes from the bus station. The auto was lots of fun, today was the first time I’ve been in one, luckily the traffic wasn’t too bad. Really scary when your driving next to a bus though, cos all you can see is the big wheels next to you through the fog of exhaust fumes.
Anyways, I think last time I was up to telling you about Jaipur. Well in one of the forts/palaces, we were having lunch in a outdoor restaurant/take away place underneath a verander. Shika was sitting next to one of the poles holding up the roof. While we were eating, we heard some people shout, then we turned around and a huge monkey had climbed down the pole to table level right behind shika, and was reaching over her trying to get her food. Shika jumped onto me and we all just sat there looking stunned while the monkey was trying to reach the table. It seemed like it was unsure as to wheather it should jump onto the table and grab the food, or attack shika first! Anyway, after about 10 seconds some guy from the restaurant ran at it with a broom and it climbed back up the pole, leaving rishika and her food untouched.
Gotta go