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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Bunnies, Snakes...and Yaks??



So we took a trip north about 3 hours (by taxi) and it was a relaxing ride...
except for the one traffic jam...



We arrived in Amilan* and stopped off at a REAL coffee shop/German cafe...It was wonderful! AND they had cute little cups with flowers on them. OHH the simple things of life...

The funny thing was that there were only white foreigners in the cafe. Normally we would be excited, but our first reaction was, "what are all these white people doing here??" I think sometimes we forget that we are not indian since white foreigners are so rare in Nimda*.So after stopping off at a friends house to drop off our stuff and catch up a bit, we headed up the hill to a temple where we found... YAKs!!! OH yes..i said YAKS.. They gave us "good price" only 50 rupees !!(like a little over a dollar) to sit on Mr. Yak and ride him up the hill and back...good thing we're used to being stared at...It was a pretty humorous sight.
Then we came across the biggest bunnies we had ever seen!! They were Huge! Afterwards we were leaving the temple and came across a snake charmer...
this is not my idea of a fun job... We wanted to ask him how many times he'd been bitten but he was a bit busy. ANd a guy with a big python around his neck kind of scared us off so we left pretty quickly..

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Bunnies, Snakes...and Yaks??



So we took a trip north about 3 hours (by taxi) and it was a relaxing ride...
except for the one traffic jam...



We arrived in Amilan* and stopped off at a REAL coffee shop/German cafe...It was wonderful! AND they had cute little cups with flowers on them. OHH the simple things of life...

The funny thing was that there were only white foreigners in the cafe. Normally we would be excited, but our first reaction was, "what are all these white people doing here??" I think sometimes we forget that we are not indian since white foreigners are so rare in Nimda*.So after stopping off at a friends house to drop off our stuff and catch up a bit, we headed up the hill to a temple where we found... YAKs!!! OH yes..i said YAKS.. They gave us "good price" only 50 rupees !!(like a little over a dollar) to sit on Mr. Yak and ride him up the hill and back...good thing we're used to being stared at...It was a pretty humorous sight.
Then we came across the biggest bunnies we had ever seen!! They were Huge! Afterwards we were leaving the temple and came across a snake charmer...
this is not my idea of a fun job... We wanted to ask him how many times he'd been bitten but he was a bit busy. ANd a guy with a big python around his neck kind of scared us off so we left pretty quickly..

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