Jungle Safari

January 3 - A few days later we went to a jungle called Sasan Gir. We stayed at a hotel called Sinh Sadan. By the way lion is called Sinh in India. The next day we woke up at like 5 in the morning to go on an open jeep safari. We could see lion, deer, cheetah, sambar and leopard. At the beginning of the trip we saw two lions first we saw a male that was only for 4 years old but it did not look small it was pretty big it only had very little of it’s mane. Then after minutes we saw it’s twin sister it was also 4 years. It was the same size as the male. It was so cool. At the jungle we saw bunches of spotted deer all kinds of birds. It was cool.

At Vadodara basically all the animals I saw there were dogs, cows, goat, rooster, and buffaloes.
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Animals in India

Feeding a cow in Vadodara









Sambar (huge antelope) in Gir Jungle









A lion 10 feet from our open air jeep in Gir Jungle














A horse ride at Somnath temple

A camel ride at Somnath Temple

Petting an elephant in Gujarat

Mendhi ceremony in wedding - December 26

I had mendhi (henna) put on my hands and legs...very pretty.

In Diu

January 2, 2009 - Today we are staying at a different hotel right across the beach. It’s called Rhadhika Beach Resort it’s a 5 star hotel in Diu (west Gujarat). It includes a restaurant, a pool, playground, health club, and a recreation room. It was awesome! Today after lunch we went to the pool for like 30 minutes and got out because it was freezing cold. So after that all of us took a shower. Then a few hours later we went to the caves. At the caves there were Banyan trees that are the trees were you can swing on like Tarzan. It was really awesome!

The next day we saw bunches of coconut trees. The cool thing was we got to drink the liquid part of it but it was horrible (my parents loved it). The fun thing we did at restaurants was the finger bowls. A finger bowl is when you are done with lunch or dinner they will give you a bowl with water and lime in it and that’s how we clean our hands. Happy New Years to all of you!
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