I saw women pumping water out of wells and getting water from large containers. Washing clothes in the water. The kids and adults were happy to see us and many waved. I should have just left my hand up in the wave position.
Food stand
The boys and girls are never together.
Food stand, clean and empty in the morning. We are in the country. Much less garbage there.
Bamboo scaffolding for a building.
Mustard growing.
People living in tents in the country. I also see this in the cities.
Our hotel. Sawai Madhopur Lodge. This is a former Maharaja hunting lodge. Large grounds. It is more basic hotel. Plain room and cold. We asked and got a little heater. There was a wedding going on behind our room. The center was very very large. On our drive into,the town of 50,000, we saw the groom on his white horse and everyone marching behind him. It went on all day and the music finally stopped at 10:00. It would be cold for me to stay outside all day at this wedding celebration. Our second night was another wedding. The dinner was Indian food and the meals are all buffet. Jack's stomach is now bad. He needs to stay near a bathroom. I am now eating vegetarian.
This is my plate. This is lunch. The lentils were to spicy. Saffron rice and spinach. Sprouts with onions. The roll , looks like a Chinese egg roll, was also hot. And then then was the bread, nam, which I love. If I lived here, I could give up desserts.
The ground of the hotel.
Entry.
In the afternoon we went on the tiger hunt for 3 hours. We were in a truck and were bumped all around. It took 1/2 hour to get to the park. Large parks, grounds. It was a hunting lodge / fort built by a maharaja in the tenth century. The main building can not be toured, as it is unsafe. Many old broken stone buildings. Three man made lakes. How do they do that 600 years ago? And some tombs about ground.
Yes, that is us. With many layers of clothes and they gave us blankets. And we were cold.
So what did we see. Nothing exciting! No tigers.
Monkeys, deer, birds, crocs,
One of the walls.
This is the women that are building the new road. They were hammering and breaking up stones. Bare foot. The road got washed out from the summer monsoons. Look at how they are dressed to work!
More walls. Banyan trees
Deer
Island in the middle of a lake. There was a building there that the men would go to for the hunt.
Peacock. The fancy tail grows now. In full glory in March.
Termite hills.
This monkey jumped into a truck full of Indian people. Our guide said, he always does that as he knows they have food. Not into the vans with our type of tourist.
We went into a store near our hotel. These are the relatives of the owner. They have come to live with him. Because he wanted them to go to a traditional school. Not learn English and the western ways. Yet it is because of his English that he can own the store and sell to the tourists.
I liked these necklaces. The five strand was $925. The two strand was $260.
They had cheap clasps and I think over priced.
Walking around the town. People were friendly and did not stare at us. Shop owners were not pushy. They all ask, did you see a tiger? Town is cleaner. No homeless. But it is a small town by India standards.
A cow visiting. I saw on our drive a skinned dead cow on the road. The Indian can not eat the meat of the cow. But he will skin it. And use the leather. Such a waste, since there are so many hungry people. And then there are the pigs, and sheep walking around.
Large hotel being built.
Woman doing something with the bricks. She is dressed in red in the center of picture.
A nice house with pigs outside gate.
This is the house next to the nice house.
They like to decorate their cars, trucks. Rashid said, it is like making your wife fancy. There are better examples than this.
We were so cold the first afternoon, that we did not do the early morning game drive. And we decided we had seen the best in Africa and did not go on the PM ride. The people said it was so bumpy. Each ride you go on is to a different part of the park. They saw a sleeping tiger in the PM. We had a naturalist speak to us in the evening. There are only 50 tigers in the park now. This is a photo taken from his computer.
As you see, I am a vegetarian. NOW.
One of two areas dining room.
There are dead stuffed tigers everywhere in the hotel. But we are at a hunting lodge.
Location:Ranthambore National Park
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