“The monkey always rings twice”

We’re all off to the Monkey Temple. This is great, monkeys everywhere fighting and eating whatever peanuts you hand them from the bags sold from the vendors at the entrance. Of course there are also the ubiquitous cows wandering around the temple who also like peanuts. One of them attempts to keep nuzzling the bag out of my hand and persists in following me and nudging my hand. Cows are like zombies in films, you think they move slowly and they’re far away and you don’t need to worry and the next time you look up – it’s all gone 28 Days Later.

One cow ambles over to a wall where a monkey is sitting and vacuums up some of his nuts. The monkey obviously isn’t going to let this go and draws back his fist and belts the cow one – it’s almost a subcontinent version of Bear vs. Shark.

The whole time were wandering around, Anne is a little on edge. It turns out that she doesn’t particularly like monkeys, finding them a little creepy. We calm her down over it and she seems to start to accept that they’re actually not too bad when suddenly we round the corner and see a monkey attempting to get to know a puppy in a cruel and unusual manner especially as he obviously hasn’t bought it dinner and drinks first. Anne runs over yelling, shooing away the monkey and decides her original instincts were justified – they really are little f*ckers