Rocks And Crocs

AAAahhhh a lie in and no driving. It's long over due and we almost didn't know what to do with ourselves. Need to drive tuk tuk...can't stop driving......

After a very leisurely 1.5hr breakfast we wandered into the town park area where there a hundreds of boulders strewn around a small hill. A lot of these have been carved into all manner of animals, temples and other hindu mythelogical scenes. The largest being the size a small house and very impressive.

We couldn't resist the draw of the tuk tuk any longer so we made the short drive out of town 10km to a crocodile bank. The exchange rate was 25 rupees for as many crocodilians as you cared to watch. For a little extra you could even chuck dead animals at them. Until you did this most of them were doing very good impressions of the stone carvins we'd seen earlier in the morning....grey stone covered in bird poo.

Also saw soom snakes being milked for the venom, Cobras, Kraits and Vipers. Unusually these are captured in the wild, only milked a couple of times and then released back to the wild. A lot of other places milk the snake until it dies.

Lots of other teams were in the area so had fun moving Rickshaws around the village while others weren't looking. Ate a lot of really good fish, and tried to drink a relaxing glass of beer. That was until the cry of Police went out and the waiter came running to grab the beer back, and Joe tried to hide a bottle under the table but broke it in the process. It's apparently illegal to sell alcohol in restaurants in Tamil Nadu.

Current location: Still at Greenwood Beach Resort, Mamallapuram 12N 37'09.7" 80E 11'49.8" 32m