Hi Everyone
Wednesday we kept the kids out of school one more day and took them on a trip to the zoo.
The zoo is on the other side of Bangalore and it took 1 1/2 hours to get there, all on city streets. The zoo is in two parts. The first is like a wild animal game park where we were loaded into buses and driven thru fenced-in areas. The 1st contained several types of deer, the 2nd black bears, the 3rd lions, 4th tigers, and the 5th white and regular tigers.
I was sitting near the front of the bus on the left side and I could take pictures out my side. Whenever there was something on the right side, the bus driver would ask for my camera. (Like England, they drive on the left side of the road here in India) He was a very enthusiastic photographer. Where I might take one or two pictures of a tiger, he would take 5 or 6. This happened several times. At one point Helen told me he is being so helpful because he wants a BIG tip at the end of the ride.
When we got back to the starting point we went into the zoo proper and saw monkeys walking around the park looking for food and taking stuff out of the dust bins (trash cans to you Americans).
We saw a lot of animals that you might find in most zoos. However, they had a couple I've never seen before. One was an Asian porcupine. Very large with a long black body with white quills. The other was called an Indian Giant Squirrel. It was red in color and about the size of a large cat with the typical large tail.
Helen and I each got our picture taken with an elephant. The trainer would have us put a coin in the elephant's trunk. Then the elephant would drop the coin in the trainers hand and then put its trunk on top of our head and hold it there long enough for a photo to be taken. It was heavy. And I now have a brown smug on my hat. Another souvenir from India.
We stopped at a Subway sandwich shop on the way home from the zoo. It was late afternoon and we hadn't eaten lunch.
Got home about 5 pm. Another long day. But not nearly as long as Erik's. He went to work at 9am and didn't get home until 11:30pm. He had to pay the piper for taking Monday and Tuesday off work.
Stand by for another exciting installment of the Adventures of John in India.
John
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