Monkeys, motorcycles, and ancient palaces.

Yesterday I was riding my motorcycle to the repair shop when something splattered across me. At first I thought that maybe a bird been flying overhead and defecated on me but there was so much of whatever it was that there was no way it could have been avian in nature. Then I saw it on the second story of a building I had just ridden by. It was a large monkey with a handful of its own fieces. As I drove off on my motorcycle I got to yell "You've won this round monkey, but next time..." while I shook my fist in the air. This garnered a number of stares from the locals but was well worth it. Maybe it’s a testament to my eclectic tastes, but for me this moment was one of the high points of my trip because the scene was just so bizarre.

Repairing the motorcycle went very well. Its amazing when you subtract the cost of parts from the repair job, despite all the work they did on the bike, labor cost 25 rupees. That’s about 50 cents in the US.

I went and explored the fort that sits above Bundi yesterday. It’s absolutely massive. The best part is that you can go into areas that are really run down. I got explore places I could tell people very rarely went and that’s was literally crawling in bats. Today I think I'll go back and sneak onto the wall that surrounds the fort. It looks like an amazing area.