Friday, 11 March 2011
Edward on his travels
India!
Hi it’s me Edward and as u all know I’m in India!
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| Jantar Mantar |
So I will know tell u what I have done since we, yet again, left Delhi..... (I use the same boring speech every time don’t I?!J) First of all (after a brilliant time at the Imperial eating pancakes with a magical unicorn called Elizabeth just kidding ho ho ho sorry I forgot I’m not Santa) we set off to Jaipur and stayed in a lovely hotel, called the Samode Haveli. At lunch time (we had to get up at 4AM to catch a flight!) we watched a very nice puppet show and then we went to a gemstone place where they cut and sold gemstones (I bought a very pretty and expensive blue topaz). Next we went to the Jantar Mantar and looked at the many sundials. (We also saw the biggest one ever which was absolutely HUGE!*) we then returned to the hotel.
The next day we started at 9:30 and went to the amber fort and saw some elephants. At the fort we saw a garden that used to grow saffron and a room full of tiny glass mirrors with silver behind them.
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| These guys actually charged us to take this pic, Jaipur |
Next we had a ride on some elephants which was amazing. (They are so strong!J) After that we watched some other tourists playing elephant polo! (The elephants were trained to follow the ball!)ELEPHANTS ARE SOOOOO CLEVER! Next we went to a place called monkey valley and as the name says there were THOUSANDS of monkeys! (Including a couple of killer monkeys which decided they didn’t like Harry and threw a boulder the size of his head at him! (It missed by centimetres!LJ. It was going so fast it made sparks when it hit the ground!) Luckily, almost all the monkeys were so tame that u could feed them bananas by hand! J We then went back to the hotel and rested. The next morning we set off on a long drive (5 hours!L) to a hotel called the Chhatra Sagar (it was also a dam and we slept in tents!). In the evening we went up a small hill to watch the amazing sunset!
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| Sunset at Chhatra Sagar |
The next day we met the 5 dogs Pollocks and Castor (named after the Gemini twin stars), Sarco, Pixie (weird name for a boy doggy isn’t it!?) and onewithblackspotswho’snameIhaveforgotten. (The most playful ones were Pollocks and Castor)
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| Pollock and Castor with two other stars |
We then headed out to a village where we saw a potter (he had 5 sons and none wanted to be a potter! Poor guy!), a barber – who was about 80 years old - a giant 10 foot deep hole (it took 4 days to dig!) and lots of little children! We then went back, had lunch, did some work and went on a giant walk dedicated to watching birds and found some antelope bones (Kitty fell in love with its skull!). The next day (today) we went on a loooooooonnnnnngggg boring drive, arrived in Narlai and started doing the BLOG! (That’s what I’m doing know!) Alright that’s absolutely EVERYTHING! So I guess I will just say GOOD BYE! JJJJJJJJ
*It also had a whole lot of other stuff including smaller (but still massive) sundials. Also they weren’t really sundials they were really not circular at all but they still told the time!? J
Harry, monkeys and boulders
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| Jantar Mantar |
Hello! And welcome to the blog! Today I'm going to tell you How I have changed while I’ve changed since I’ve been in India and what has happened since I last wrote. (Mental note: I'm not going to do any colour in this message for I'm doing this on my mum's I pad.) So anyway, this time my adventure starts in Jaipur. The first big event was when we went to the biggest sundial on the PLANET, Jantar Mantar.
I'm afraid I can't remember very much about it because I was too busy saying to mum that I wanted to go back to the hotel and that it was hot, and lots more of those daily phrases. The next day we went to the Amber fort. (Mental note: it wasn't actually made of Amber) at it we... Err, we..... Damn. I was too busy fussing about the heat. But don't worry, you didn't miss very much. (Note from ma – yes you did! It was beautiful and had a whole room full of wonderful patterned glass tiles and were around 300 years old...)
At the next place we went to we rode on elephants. We did not do a very long ride because the elephants were REALLY slow. After the ride we went to watch Elephant polo. (Polo is a game were people sit on horses with mallets and whack a ball into a goal.) It was like normal polo, except in slow motion and underwater.
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| Sorry, really terrible photo' of elephants |
Well, next we went to a place called block printing. (note from ma - it was actually called The Anokhi Museum in Jaipur) At it we printed our own T-shirts. We were given stamps and we dipped them in trays full of ink. Then we dried the shirts in an oven and then they were done. After that we went to the temple of the monkeys were 3000 no, 8000 monkeys lived. (Yet another not mental but insane note: if you want to hear how three members of our family including me had a near-death experience, then read on. If you are ahead of all of the others reading my blog, then go and tell your form teacher this.) First of all, we started at the start of the valley and we had brought bananas which the monkeys took from our driver and then a priest who worked there. As we went up, the sight of monkeys became less common.
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| Don't be fooled they're not that cute |
This is where the ND experience happened. I was saying to mum how friendly the monkeys were and how none of them wanted to hurt us and how they were more frightened then us than we were of them when one of them decided to drop a foot-long boulder at our heads. It missed by an inch and made sparks scatter all over the banana-covered floor.
We were as shocked as three bereaved sloth who realized they were dead. (note from ma – we really were. Harry, for once, is not exaggerating)
The next morning we drove to Chhatra Sagar. (Sagar means lake in Hindi and Chhatra is the name of the man who built it) The first event we did there was walking up a hill. At the top the sun was behind a cloud and I did a heroic pose which should be the picture below. (My sister did one but I don’t think it looked very heroic.) (Regurgitating note: dotted around our journeys we sometimes see little children with no pants or trousers on.)
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| Harry looking heroic |
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| Harry looking heroic slightly closer |
In the next event we went to a farmer’s field. In it we saw barley, marrow, chilli, corn and aniseed. And the only thing that the farmer got to sleep on was a chaarpai. (char-pie) in English it means four goat legs. After that we went to a village. Most of the time we were sitting in an open-top jeep being barked at by boys speaking Hindi. (Boring note: later I have an other ND experience.) After that we went to a potter who was making pots (I have to say you`d have to be pretty stupid to not realize that.) when I was going back to the jeep, I walked past a pack of dogs. One of them started growling. When I went really close it jumped up and started chasing and barking at me. (Even if it managed to get me on the ground, I still know how to break its neck.)
The next thing we did was go on a nature walk. In the first two mins on the nature walk we found a pile of bones. For the rest of the journey we were pretending to clobber each other with the bones. The next event was driving to Rawla Narlai. The next day we climbed a mountain. The mountain was 20 times bigger than it looked. (note from ma – they usually are)
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| The pool and...the boulder. |
After we climbed it we took a dip in the pool. After that I wrote what I’m writing right now.
Well, it seems I have comprehended all I can comprehend. (Wow! These words don’t have red lines underneath them!) Goodbye! Click!
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| Harry blogging at Rawla Narlai |
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