Ok, this will be a little quick... as my memory is fading a little... and I have to catch up on a few days... first off, we scored an awesome tuk tuk driver... who took us around several places.... visited an old time keeping place with Sun dials accurate to 2 seconds! Yeah! The floating palace, this is 5 storeys, 2 are below the water line... not much to see here..... then off to see some elephant's, this wasn't too good... they were chained... didn't look overly happy... (sorry I refused to take any photos of them, )
Then his another textile factory.... (I'm pretty sure tuk tuk drivers get something out of it...) I didn't buy anything! <<SHOCK HORROR>> "J" my room-mate finished up buying some! And having it shipped to his mum in the UK!...
Next it was to a gem store.... to get a stone, for my Chandra, or whatever it was.... they guy was a "psychic" hovering his hand over my hand... her started off... and starting saying stuff.... was pretty interesting.... then said... there was a suicide in the family?? I was like NO.... next... there is too much noise in here... we went into another room.... it continued... he prattled on for a bit... bits seemed interesting... some I will not go into... he did say.... in his own words.... I need to tell people to "F**K OFF" and said the palm reader was wrong... the stone needed was an emerald... not citrine.... he pulled out a nice emerald.... to make a pendant... 55,000 rupees.... (over $1000 nzd) I was like hmm "NO"... visited the monkey temple.... these little guys.... are probably the most well feed animals in India in my opinion..... we had a selection of peanuts and some bananas... I even had one on my shoulder... (pic is on my friends camera... so will see if I can post it later
Had dinner at a nice buffet restaurant.... little too much to eat... food was really good... told a few about the psychic guy... and what he said...
Next day... I was going to catch up on my blogging.... "J" was finding a gym.... to have a knock knock on the door... few of the others on the tour wanted to tag along with our cool "Tuk tuk Driver"... this time... hoping to get a taxi... as there were 4 of us.... only to get a taxi.... with, A) our tuk tuk driver... and b) the taxi driver... (4 of us were squeezed in the back).. 3 large guys and one girl...
We visited, a couple of forts, both were pretty impressive, some even had tunnels between them... these things are HUGE..... visited a better elephant park... this seemed a lot better... nice green grass.... big swimming pool for the elephants altho it was an icky green colour.... we were hoping to feed them... maybe
Visited another restaurant, hopefully you will see the picture of the monster dosa, I had.... settled in to watch the cricket.... Aussie vs India...
Visited another gem store... checked out some more emeralds.... prices seemed a lot better.... $300-600nzd.... still felt it was expensive so said no.....
Headed back to the hotel.... and got caught... was the taxi driver.... who wanted 4,000 rupees for the day... (normal rate is 2,500) duh!! And the tuk tuk driver wanted his cut!
Anyway enjoy the pictures!!
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