Weekend in Jaipur- Day 2

The second day in Jaipur we visited another fort before leaving town. Hassan and I walked along one of the outer walls of the fort, when we found our path blocked by a monkey. They're cute enough, but when they look at you and grin it's very unnerving- I think because of their human-like teeth. I think perhaps I had expected to see the fangs of a howler monkey, which while more menacing, would have been at least anticipated. One of the monkeys at Amber Fort on my first day in Jaipur had given me a huge smile and then chased me- so I've learned to keep my distance. Still they have a way of sneaking up on you; another associate here, Emily, got mugged by a monkey in Nepal for her bag of peanuts.

So now at this new fort we found a monkey blocking our path. Since we didn't have any peanuts to pay his toll, we decided to try a different way around. But there was a group of monkeys on that path as well. We soon found ourselves surrounded, but they mainly ignored us, so I took advantage of the opportunity to get some good monkey pictures!





































































































This cannon was built in the 17th century I believe, and supposedly can shoot a cannon ball 20 miles. Unfortunatley it only got to be test-fired once, and not fulfill its true purpose in life of blowing lots of stuff up real good.