Seeing Life and Death in Bundi

Its been 9 day's in Bundi and I can finally leave. My plan's for Goa have become an expensive or impossible mission so I have decided to head to a small beach town on the Northwest coast called Diu. I want to point out my last few experiences in Bundi.

First, I took one last cooking class to learn stuffed tomato masala. As I was eating on the rooftop I was handed a stick. The man spoke no English but I understand the word for monkey - Langun. So I was sitting there with a spoon in one hand, and a big bamboo stick in the other, guarding my meal while eating. Since I was holding a, nothing came close to me, but the moment I put the stick down I heard hissing and screaming. A monkey had been hiding on the ledge in back of me and saw his window to run in and grab my naan. It all happened so fast where he ran down the ledge, jumped onto my table, snatched the naan, looked at me, snarled then ran off eating and looking at me. Like he was saying, "Thats right....you my bitch!" I was so embarrassed and now a little less full.

Next, I had to most interesting walk back to my guest house. First, there was a woman squatting off to the side of the road talk to a friend when a dog came up and pissed on her back. It was so hard not to laugh because I saw it all from 10ft away. The second thing that happened was mix of life and death. Just when I had arrived in Bundi a Bitch gave birth to 3 puppies. Throughout my stay I would pass by them every day as they were either sleeping, playing or feeding outside their home. Today as I walked past, I noticed on had died. Everyone had abandoned it and was left on the doorstep covered in flies while laying in a pool of excrement. After observing this heart wrenching site, I saw something that would cheer me up and make me stop in my tracks. As I turned the corner to get back to my guesthouse, I saw two wild hogs mating in a pile of shit and garbage. This all didn't seem strange to me because you see this amongst all types of animals everywhere in India. What made me stop and watch was that the female had her face greedily stuffed in a pile of food and garbage. She was chomping away while getting it from behind. Who says wild hogs don't know how to multi-task?!

So that was my last day in Bundi. I left at 5pm to catch a train to Ahmedabad, then Ahmedabad to Veravala, then a Bus from Veravala to Diu. This trip to Diu will take ONLY 40 hours.