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| Camels on the highway between Agra and Jaipur. |
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| Cow dung drying almost everywhere, to be used later as fuel for cooking and heating |
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| David riding his camel in Jaipur, in a traffic jam with two elephants following right behind |
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| Yes, they really DO bring cobras out of a rattan basket with flute music. This one was in Jaipur |
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| This python had eaten something large and (to him, probably) delicious. Luckily our hotel was more than 6 kms away from this location. |
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Cows were seemingly everywhere in India, pretty much as we had anticipated.
Much to our surprise, in the Jaipur area we saw dozens of camels: pulling heavy loads of straw or marble on wooden carts, pulling people around on smaller carts, and -- on one occasion -- allowing David to make an absolute fool of himself by taking his first camel ride ever. The young guide said "Lie down baby, lie down," and the camel actually did so. David got on, clumsily (of course). The guide said to David: "Lean back" and the camel rose up suddenly, David holding on for dear life. The same process happened in reverse to get David safely back to earth, happy for the experience but likely never to repeat it.
As for the cobra, one rose out of a rattan basket to the sound of its trainer's flute...yikes! And we saw three pythons in one location, one literally 20 feet in length. We were stunned to learn from our guide there that it could move up to 6 kilometers in search of food. Even Janet, essentially a "snake aficianado," said she was intimidated by that one. David didn't have to think twice to share that emotion.
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