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I should let Renu write these because she certainly has a better memory than I, but she's out with a bad headache this morning.
Sanamamu was kind enough to bring a masseuse to the house for a morning massage. A stool was set up outside near the road and, although a bit in the open it was excellent.
Sanamai brought us to Udayagiri caves, one of the more famous tourist attractions in Bhubaneswar.
It was a sprawling ground of hand dug caves and cells where the Jain ascetics lived. Basically a gathering of rock holes for sleeping, with other caverns for cooking and praying.
There was also a beautiful temple that was on a hill across the road that Renu and I visited, but didn't enter.
After we walked over from the caves to the temple, enjoyed the surroundings and went to leave, we were approached by a man selling cones of newspapers. Following him over a small ledge were a group of monkeys looking for the peanuts wrapped up in the newspaper.
There were about 15 other people and 20 monkeys near us, with another 50 or so below the ledge. Aggressive ones that would shriek, monkeys that would jump on you if they saw you with the peanut cones (I may or may not have thrown the cone at Renu when one jumped on me), mothers with babies were all throughout the pack.
This particular one took kindly to Renu. The monkeys would take one nut from your hand (unless they were attacking you for the whole cone) crack it with their teeth, pull out the meat and toss the shell and grab another. The little one in the picture used his other hand to lightly hold Renu's wrist so she wouldn't take the rest of the nuts away.
I should let Renu write these because she certainly has a better memory than I, but she's out with a bad headache this morning.
Sanamamu was kind enough to bring a masseuse to the house for a morning massage. A stool was set up outside near the road and, although a bit in the open it was excellent.
Sanamai brought us to Udayagiri caves, one of the more famous tourist attractions in Bhubaneswar.
After we walked over from the caves to the temple, enjoyed the surroundings and went to leave, we were approached by a man selling cones of newspapers. Following him over a small ledge were a group of monkeys looking for the peanuts wrapped up in the newspaper.
It was an incredible experience.
We visited the factory that Sanamamu is now working with as well to take an extensive tour. As a manufacturer of power and other cables, it was interesting to see each step in the process although Renu and I could only make out about 30% of the words.
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