After a morning visit the attractions in South Mumbai, my friends and I have a ferry near the Gateway of India and headed the elephanta Island, UNESCO World Heritage site composed of cave temples. We only pay 120 rupees per person (approximately US $ 3 CAD at the time) and then were guided to a boat unstable. We then were driven to jump from boat to boat for the one farthest from the coast, being captured and then pushed onwards by the crew after each jump-weeeee!
The boat ride was little more than an hour, with shelter from Sun and wind, which was very welcome. It was noon up to this point and was the first time I realized that sweat really means! I think this was the day that we spent for more water, probably somewhere upwards of 20 liters between the 6 of us and at one point I noticed that had been more than eight hours and not a single person in our group had had to stop for a bathroom break yet!
We arrived at Elephant Island, and after a quick walk, come to our "white whale" for the day-long climb up stone steps covered with blue cloth and lined with souvenir stalls. At first I was grateful to the shadow and the chance to look at some Indian handicrafts, but after five minutes I was sweating as I was putting in a greenhouse, with cries of "Yes Ma'am!" from all sides (the Indian vendor to see if you would like to buy something). Finally topped and determined that it would be a good thought to rest and eat before anybody fainted. The 5 caves were truly notable, with sculptures of Hindu deities stones, reportedly made during the Gupta Empire. The most important sculpture is the statue of Trimurti Sadasiva twenty feet-Shiva's three heads. We did a lot of photos and a point-to our fun-a group of teenagers Indians asked to take a photo with us!
So curious about elephanta Island: there are no elephants. However, that there are tons and tons of monkeys. Delicious? In the first place ... But, of course, these monkeys workloads prior exposure to tourists and know that we prefer to have drinks. However we did not know that this is what these monkeys wanted, so when one ran to my friend and growling and whistles, we weren't quite sure what to do! Fortunately my friend discovered him and threw his one-litre bottle of Coca-Cola for the monkey, who promptly grabbed him and started chugging! As we traveled through the caves, we lost many bottles of water to monkeys "scary" similar, though my friend 6 "5 Danish refused to give up their bottle holding it over his head!
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