Days 14 & 15:

(6/2/12-6/3/12)

Two weeks! Hard to believe we’ve already been here two whole weeks! Most people would be ending their vacations by now, and we’ve still got another six weeks left!

Yesterday Yoshi, Phu, Maria, and I decided to take a little trip outside the city. Our destination was this place called Nandi Hills, which according to the guidebook is a big weekend get-away for people living in Bangalore. After a late start, we managed to get to the Central Bus Station, where we took two different buses and eventually ended up at Nandi Hills after a two hour trip. Once there, it was definitely different than I was expecting. The books made it sound like there would be hiking in the hills, but turns out it’s basically just a park/campground on top of a hill! Nevertheless, it was still really nice to get out of the city and see something other than buildings and trash.

We had the entire afternoon, so we walked around and ended up at one of the temples on the hill. It was actually a really old but interesting temple! We started talking to the man in charge of it, and he ended up inviting us to his house. We thought he was going to show us the artwork he makes from tree roots, but instead we saw his entire coin/bill collection! It was actually real neat- he has a ton of stuff and even coins from hundreds of years ago! We took another bus back from the hills and got back into Bangalore late last evening.

Think these monkeys are cute? Don’t let them fool you! These little suckers are evil! They will go to any extent to steal your food, and one even jumped on top of Maria’s backpack in an attempt to steal her food!

View from the top!

Maria and I

Today we’re just relaxing and doing laundry before heading off to tea at an incoming Wooster freshman’s house.