From tigers we went to Bundi, a small, quiet town where Rudyard Kipling wrote much of Kim and the Jungle Book. We had a really nice time here, the fort and palace were huge, and beautiful but not very well looked after. Half the palace was entirely given over to monkeys. In fact monkeys played across the whole town- you walked everywhere with a big wooden stick to ward them off! Being here it was easy to see Kiplings inspiration for the monkey palace, as they sat on our hostel roof, swung along the telephone lines and tumbled down through trees and along the fort walls.
Dave and Gibbs tried pan, a leaf painted with lime and calcium filled with sweets, cardamom, fennel, peppermint and a load of other things, all wrapped into quite a sizable pouch, which you shove in your cheek and eat. They said it was pretty strong. I had a taste..it was nice, but the whole package would have been way too much!
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