I'll over the next few days post a few stories of what I did in Rishikesh, as well as some pictures.
Our second day in Rishikesh, we arranged for white water paddling on the holy Ganges river. It should be pointed out that up in Rishikesh, the Ganges is clean, whereas further down, you kind of want to avoid it. We had great fun jumping out of the raft between rapids and playing in the water. We even stopped to jump off a 10-15 foot rock. It was great fun.
After the trip, lunch, and a shower, I was very tired and took a 2-3 hour nap. After being woken and left to actually get up out of bed, I sat upright when a large monkey jumped into the open window sill where all our clothes lay drying, and started to reach into the room to grab the bag with my friend's underwear in it. Apparently it lost interest, because it left a few moments later.
Not really knowing what to do in this situation, I called for help, and just watched the monkey. I wasn't sure whether to take the black bear approach and try and scare it off, or to pretend I'm part of the furniture (I chose the latter, as I had nowhere to run if the monkey didn't like my attempts to scare it off).
Unfortunately, I didn't have the wherewithal to try to find my camera during this adventure, but I'll post pictures of similar monkeys soon.
Our second day in Rishikesh, we arranged for white water paddling on the holy Ganges river. It should be pointed out that up in Rishikesh, the Ganges is clean, whereas further down, you kind of want to avoid it. We had great fun jumping out of the raft between rapids and playing in the water. We even stopped to jump off a 10-15 foot rock. It was great fun.
After the trip, lunch, and a shower, I was very tired and took a 2-3 hour nap. After being woken and left to actually get up out of bed, I sat upright when a large monkey jumped into the open window sill where all our clothes lay drying, and started to reach into the room to grab the bag with my friend's underwear in it. Apparently it lost interest, because it left a few moments later.
Not really knowing what to do in this situation, I called for help, and just watched the monkey. I wasn't sure whether to take the black bear approach and try and scare it off, or to pretend I'm part of the furniture (I chose the latter, as I had nowhere to run if the monkey didn't like my attempts to scare it off).
Unfortunately, I didn't have the wherewithal to try to find my camera during this adventure, but I'll post pictures of similar monkeys soon.
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