Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Greatest Show on Earth

So today I was taking a break from the hospital, having some lunch, shopping for groceries (milk is nearly impossible to find, and it comes in a bag, unrefrigerated) and looking at saris when I turned the corner and ran into these cuties: 

They normally live at Mysore Palace and apparently need to be walked every day.  So they walk in the streets and go around eating everything.  In less than five minutes I watched the fruit vendor in the foreground shove two baskets of unpeeled bananas into one elephant.  The elephant coughed a little and like, twenty half eaten bananas fell out of his mouth.  

They wear the little bells around their necks so you know where they are.  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great pictures! Your doing a very good job with your blog, wish I was there. :)