An Indian Menagerie

Namaste from India, Mom! We just finished up our first week here and it’s been…well, it’s been interesting. John and I are both working on blog posts about our first impressions. Look for those in the days to come. But in the meantime, I wanted to tell you about some of the amazing animals we’ve seen so far. Yesterday, we hired a car to take us from Udaipur to Jodhpur…about a 5-6 hour car ride (see “The Map” page). From the time we left Udaipur at 9am to the time we went to bed in Jodhpur around 10pm, we saw the following animals:

chipmunks
a hawk
green parrots
countless other birds (cranes, pigeons, sparrows, geese)
one mouse (who probably is not long for this world)
one skinny cat
dogs and puppies
cows (and cows with jewelry, painted horns and other bling)
oxen
water buffalo
wild boar (with piglets! If that’s what you call baby boars…)
goats
sheep
camels
monkeys (and wet behind the ears monkey babies!)
horses
bees (and a crazy-big scary next/hive)

All those animals in just over 12 hours! Here are just a few pictures…more to come:

We have a great hotel in Jodhpur (video to come!) but the internet stinks. We leave for Jaipur tomorrow…maybe we’ll have better luck there. More news to India to come soon…promise!